Europe Adventure

We recently got back from an Adventure in Europe. We first packed, then we drove to a bus station. At the bus station we parked and got on the bus to Boston. We got off at the airport and discovered someone had taken our bag. We went to terminal E and took a Aer Lingus flight to Dublin that lasted about 5 hrs & 20 minutes. We did not have that one bag, but the bus company was searching for it. In Dublin we took a taxi to a fishing village , saw a castle there and ate at a cafe. We had about 4 hr layover so then we took another taxi back to Dublin airport. The currency in Ireland was Euro's but they drove on the left side of the road. So they had a bit of English culture left from the time Britain ruled Ireland. The taxi drivers did not really like England and one played a Irish rebel song when we asked him his favorite Irish music. We took another Aer Lingus flight from terminal 2 to Inverness Scotland. That flight was only an hour and a half. In Inverness we got a Mercedes rental car that turned off when you stopped ! We drove towards Skye after we got some food from a market. There were sheep and green hills everywhere!

 We stopped on our way and hiked up a hill and had a picnic on it. There were many small rivulets running through the hills too. We saw plenty of sheep on our way to Skye. We stopped at some castles like Eileen Donan and Urqhart

.  We also went to a town called Strontian, where strontium was discovered. In Skye we slept in a cottage, and explored many places, including Portree ( the capital ), and the fairy springs                  

next to the Cullens ( a mountain range ). Then we went down to Stirling, and saw Stirling Castle. After this we went down to Edinburgh and the surrounding towns. We saw Edinburgh Castle

and went to church in DalKeith. We also went through a flower field ( around North Berwick )                        

. We hiked up a The North Berwick Law ( or just the Berwick Law ), in North Berwick , it is a hill that has a whale's Jawbone ( now a replica , added in 2008, after one rotted away , and was removed in 2005 )  on the top. It also has ruins of an Iron age hill fort and military bases of many wars, including the Napoleonic and WWII. I got lost on it but, We found each other later. After this we had a Flight booked for London, but when we stopped on our way to the Airport , Our Sister's lip got slashed on the concrete. We went to the airport , and they told us that we should get it stitched, ( by the way the medical agent there was not very helpful ) But they couldn't do it, and there was a hospital 7 miles away or so. So we went to St Johns hospital and waited forever in the emergency room. Then after some more waiting in a patient's room, there came a facial surgeon and he stitched our sisters lip up. We had missed our flight from Edinburgh airport, and drove around, after getting some food at Tesco's, to find a hotel to sleep for the night. We went to hotel one hotel, they said no, then another ( that they recommended to us ), that said no , and another ( that they recommended to us ) , that said NO. But , finally we found one that said yes! and we slept there during the night. There was a deal if you book flights the day before them , before midnight, then they are cheaper. Our dad booked our flight to London , like 2 minutes before Midnight. We slept there that night, and then had a Breakfast there , for they had breakfast served there. That day we flew to London, we had lost some time, so we did not go to Oxford. But we took a bus tour of London, and saw Big Ben's tower              

, Parliament , and other buildings. We then flew to Bergerac, France, and then drove to Beynac.

There we slept in an old ( about medieval ) stone cottage of the hill that had the castle. The Cottage was refurbished on the inside for modern needs. We explored much of the Dordogne

, and some of the castles around it, I got my Sword in one of the Castles.

After this we drove to Paris in a rental car we had gotten in Bergerac airport. We lost a wallet at one of the tolls, but finally, after some 6 hours, we made it to Paris. In Paris we explored

, and saw Notre Dame

 ( there was a statue of Charlemagne near it, and many pigeons  ) , The Louvre and the Eiffel Tower

( I touched the base of this one ). From here we flew to Dublin, and after a 2 hour layover ( that was delayed some more ), we flew to Boston. It was great to be home, and we had a great time in Europe.

My recent drawings and more on Frozen

Here are some of my recent drawings .

Some of these drawings were inspired and based on Frozen The most recent Disney movie.
As I have listed on This Blogpost, Frozen was about a city getting concealed in snow and ice in summer. A person ( who happend to be the leader of the city named Arenndell ) Had a magical power . This person made Arrendeel snowy. The Ice and snow will kill the people if it is not stopped. The leaders relative goes through an adventure to stop the ice and snow. At the start of the movie there is a scene where ice cutters ( or icemen ) Cut ice and stack it in their wagon while chanting or singing a song .




                              Born of cold an' winter air and mountain rain combining 
                            this icy force both foul and fair has a frozen heart worth mining
                           so cut through  the heart  cold  and  clear  strike  for her love and 
                         strike for her fear see the beauty  sharp and clear smite the ice apart 
                      and break the frozen heart . ya! ho! watch your step let it go!, ya! ho! watch 
                    your step let it go. beautiful , powerful , dangerous, cold ice has a maigic can't 
                 be controlled stronger than 1 stronger than 10 stronger than 100 men ! Ya !.  Born 
               of cold an' winter air and mountain rain combining this icy force both foul and fair has 
            a frozen heart worth mining so cut through the heart cold and clear strike for her love and 
         strike for her fear there's beauty and there's danger here smite the ice apart beware the frozen 
                                                   Heart  
      The ice industry was a huge thing led by the " ice king " Frederic Tudor. Until the1800s when the ice making machine was invented . The icemen would cut the ice with saws and pack it into carriages that went to ice storehouses . where they stayed until they were shipped to some continent like Africa of South America . This ice was used to help people with diseases.    


                                              

Recent books I have read

the books I have recently read are:

The Hobbit:
By : J.R.R Tolkien

About: This book is about a hobbit 
named Bilbo Baggins going on an 
adventure with some Dwarves and a 
wizard named Gandalf . The set out
to get their ( in case of the Dwarves ) 
treasure from a dragon named Smaug 
that lived on the lonely mountain. Smaug
had taken the mountain a long time ago and
killed most of the Dwarves living there. 
He chased the others away and took 
their treasure for himself. Thorin the 
heir to the throne of the mountain had
 escaped with a few others that were not
 in the mountain at the time. Bilbo travelled
with Thorin and his company of Dwarves to
 take the mountain back. They encountered many 
dangers like goblins and spiders , but at last they
made it to the mountain. but they could not 
figure out how to kill the loathsome dragon . 
I will not tell you how it ends.

Why I Liked It :
I like fantasy and J.R.R Tolkien's work.

The Missing Series 6 books will have 8:
By : Haddix 

About: This series is about a bunch of adopted 
kids finding out that they were actually famous
missing people from history . They have to go 
back in time and make time go the way it should.
But the missing people were taken out of history 
because they were going to be killed ! Can they 
find a way to restore time and stay alive !

Why I Liked It :
I liked it because they go back in time in history 
and I like history 


Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's library :
By :Chris Grabenstein
 
About: This book is about 12 kids that are invited 
to stay in the new public library for a night before
it even opened!They find out that Mr. Lemoncello 
the most famous game maker ( in this book ) will 
be hosting it. But when they wake up they find out 
that they are playing a game . Whoever wins this
game would become world famous and rich , rich.
They would star in Mr. Lemoncello's commercials.
The game was to get out of the library first . The 
kids split up into to teams . Eventually one team 
becomes solo . Charles Chillington . He competes
with team Kyle Keely . I will not tell you who wins

Why I Liked It :
It had many puzzles in it.

The youngest Templar.

The youngest Templar is a series I have been reading . It has three books .I have read 2 of them and am reading the third on page 103 .The author is called Michael P. Spradlin.

The book is about a orphan called Tristan who became a squire of a Templar knight called Sir Thomas. When he and the other Templar knight and squires were about to get killed by a army of Saladin's men, Sir Thomas gives him the holy grail and tells him to bring it to a monk in Scotland. On his way there he meets friends that accompany him on his journey. He is pursued by a evil Templar knight called Sir Hugh.

Sir Hugh wants the grail for himself. They encounter many hardships along the way .So far they are in the middle of England heading north to Scotland. Richard the Lionheart's mother said that Tristan
had claims to the throne.

The book has its version of Robin Hood in it with an archer called Robard Hode.

The Book is placed in the time of the crusades.

The Templars were a group of knights fighting for Jerusalem but they were loyal to the pope not to the king. They also believed artifacts such as the holy grail would help them win. In the end though Saladin wins as we know from history.

soccer game

We went to a soccer game recently for our grandpa's birthday. It was between brazil and Portugal! It took a long long time to finally get there. We went through security at the stadium and then went to sit. The stadium was giant ! there were so many people! Pele was there ! I took a picture of him. The game started off with Portugal Scoring! 1- 0! I expected Brazil to score first . After that waves rippled through the crowd it was awesome! Most of the people were voting for brazil. Portugal followed the goal with to more close shots. It looked like they were going to win . At half time the score was 1-1.In the second half Brazil scored two goals and portugal was losing. Neymar got a yellow card. Many people left before the game was over to get out of traffic. We stayed till the game was over. First we went through all the people to get to the parking lot. Then we stayed in the parking lot like an hour it was so slow moving in traffic. When at last we got out it was like! 12:00 . The freeway was almost deserted except for a few late night trucks. When we at last got home it was 2 something. We immediately fell asleep!  

at the beach

yesterday me and my family were at the beach we built a sandcastle we also found ten hermit crabs.it was very interesting to see what that they fought each other when we put them all together in a little pool they have to be under water to breath . me my sister and my brother all found one sand dollar and we played in the waves . after that we waded too an island of rocks on the island my grandpa found a crab as big as 4 inches then we waded back  we at lunch and went home for a soccer practice.