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Winding Down

November 29th, 2007 by james

Well after my birthday I had to catch up on a lot of my school work because I had fallen behind badly. So I got some of my work done and I went to the movies with Cameron and saw Fred Clause. After that I finished the rest of my schoolwork for the year so I am free to do whatever. So Cameron and I have been working for Dennis and Donna every couple of days because Cameron’s school has had a nine-day holiday so he has spent most of it at our place. We also have been having fun and watching movies we plan to set up a backyard air soft course later on so we are keeping ourselves out of trouble.

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My Birthday

November 29th, 2007 by james

Hey guys sorry I am behind on the blog I’ve been lazy.

But here is what happened on my 16th birthday first Donna, Cameron (a friend of mine) and I went to breakfast at IHop a Diner that has great breakfast menu. We ate then the staff sang happy birthday and gave me a free Sunday it was cool.

After all that we all went Paintballing it was a good setup they had and Donna told them it was my birthday and I got another five hundred balls on to of the five hundred I got with the equipment. We played for a good two hours and I think we did pretty good considering it was only my second time and Cameron’s fist. Also there was some really hardcore people out there. We saw this guy that looked like he was a navy seal all blue and gray cammo and full auto paintball gun with dual CO2 canisters. I was crazy we had a lot of fun.

We had to go so we could get to the next thing on time. I got to fly a Cessna 172 for 48 minuets. We flue around Mt Diablo and got to see a lot of cool things. We got to see the Delta River and the top of the Golden Gate Bridge because there was some fog around the area. It was cool to see all the mountains from a bird’s eye view.

At the end of the day we all went to a drive in movie we saw The Bee Movie witch was O.K after that we watched Beowulf it was a good movie but I didn’t like the ending.

So that was my birthday.

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My trip to Seattle

November 20th, 2007 by james

Hey guys I’m back from Seattle

I have done the coolest things. I got to go to Riley’s school and meet all her friends then she gave us the tour of the playground.

The next day we went to a Reptile Zoo and got to see all these cool snakes, alligators, lizards and even a two-headed turtle. After that we got to handle some of the Pythons. For Lunch that day we went to the Tokyo Steak House and that is something you have got to see for yourself the guy cooks at your table and makes a show of it juggling raw eggs and making fireballs fly at me. The cook was flicking mushrooms onto our plate (except mine which hit me in the head) then he flung a chicken piece onto the plate of someone at another table without them noticing. When we were done at Tokyo we went to Pike Place and as we got there Donna said quite calmly “I hope you get hit in the head by a fish” I didn’t know what was that about. When I got there I understood. There is a fresh fish stall were you buy fish and they throw it from the display to the weighing station then back to the customer. I know its crazy. When we were done there we went to the Gum Wall I know what you are thinking and you are right it is a wall covered in you got it gum. Once we were thoroughly disgusted with its gumminess we left to go to the Space Needle. It is a tall tower that you go to the top of so you can see the whole city. We got there as all the lights were coming on so it looked really cool.

Now I need to tell you that in America they don’t eat meat pies. 90% of the people I have told about them looked at me as if I was wanting to eat their cat. For them a pie is cherry, blueberry or apple not meat. So Donna took me to Australian Pie Company and they were great. When we were done we went to Wolf Haven a wolf rehabilitation place were you can look at wolves up close and personal. We got to see Grey Wolves, Snow Wolves, Red Wolves and some coyotes. At the end of the day we went to visit Pete and Cyrstal, the ones from the Oregon trip. We stayed for a while and chatted, we put up a shelve, but then we had to go home.

The last day we were there we went to a football game of Riley’s They did really well in the first game but lost the second by just two points. Since it was our last night we went out to dinner at the Melting Pot a Fondue restaurant. The food was great. There was chicken, lobster and steak. For dessert you dipped marshmallows and cheese cake in melted chocolate.

We flew home so there was no 23-hour train ride back to Tracy.

That was my trip to Seattle. Sorry It took so long to write about.

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Back To Cali - Updated

November 2nd, 2007 by james

Hey guys I’m back in California after my Homecoming dance (which was really cool) I have had my first American Halloween and it was awesome I scared this one kid and he ran away and never came back. The next door neighbours puppies are being sold off and every one is depressed cause two of the are already sold but what can you do. I will be going to Seattle soon to help take care of my Aunt Donna’s niece and nephew because get this her brother won a trip to San Fransisco HA HA HA. For those who don’t know we live about an hour away from there so we are going up to Seattle and they are coming down to us go figure.

That is about it for now until next time bye

Since I didn’t wright much I though I would update you on whats up. I just spent the weekend at one of Donnas friend’s house. She has a son named Cameron who’s really cool. Camron invited me to go and play a game of American Football it was really cool I scored two touchdowns and got one poke in the eye. I am really proud of my poke in the eye. We went to a driving range the next day and I was hitting the ball 160 yards (1 yard is a bit less than a metre ) with a 5 Iron so I felt preity good. We also when Quad bike riding around the place. In-between all that we watched movies and played video-games. All in all I had a great time.

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