Week 26

I couldn't find Internet (cheap enough) to do my blog on, so had to spent much time trying to remember the cruise as well as this week. This week prior to the cruise was pretty much a preparation week (especially for mum). Dad and I went for a round of golf, mum went for a walk with one of her friends, but we didn't do that much. On one of the days mum and I went bowling and on another we were invited over to one of the CITEL families' houses for dinner. Afterwards we all had a game of tennis in tornado weather. It was unbelievably windy, and there was lightning and thunder 6 miles down the road. Even though this was just the night before, the next day was bright and sunny. On Friday night, before we flew out mum and dad went to have dinner with one of the families from tennis, while I went to my last karate lesson until August. After waking up at 3:30a.m. we caught the bus to DIA. We departed early in the morning and got into Seattle at around 11. Following the train ride into the city dad wanted us to push the luggage bag to the cruise ship. Another traveller asked us for some directions, but we told them that we weren't from Seattle, let alone the USA. We got onto the ship and went out for some reconnaissance. We found a lot of places to eat and our very small room. Even though the room wasn't great the janitor guy was really cool. He made us animals out of towels, like a rabbit, a mouse, and something that none of us could figure out what it was. While we slept the cruise ship left for Alaska.

Week 25

The major event for this week was probably going to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Mum and I went to this cinema type thing only it was a part of the whole spherical ceiling. It was really cool, because it felt like the seats were moving, not the display. We also went and saw all these stuffed animals. Some of the bears, especially the Alaskan brown bear, were massive. When we were in the Australian section, mum overheard a conversation between two other women talking about a song to do with a laughing bird; embarrassingly mum started singing "Kookaburra sits in the old gum-tree...". The whole museum was pretty cool. Saturday was my test for a Green belt. Although it might seem the other way round, all the little kids were kind of intimidating.
Sunday we went to the Boulder Jewish festival. It was pretty boring, the best things were the free water bottles and the various samples of drinks and ice-creams.

Week 24

This is our first week of the holidays and we're trying to get a cruise up to Alaska next week as our first major event. This week we had a cricket match on Sunday. It was a T20 which our team managed to win (amazingly). I only got to field, but I took a catch and a run out. We then caught a lift with another teammate whose daughter also came. On Monday, Dad and I went to the Atmospheric Research Center in Boulder, while Mum went for play-dates with two friends. We were all invited over to an Americans house on Tuesday. Went went for a walk, had lunch, and were entertained by Bert; a big parrot that could sometimes say hello, and loved to make cat sounds. That afternoon, Dad and I went for a round of golf! We got cramped with some other guys, a pom and a yank. It was lucky the yank was there, it made me look mediocre. I managed 1 par, and 1 birdie, and the rest > bogey.

Week 23

It's now the start of the holidays although we're staying in Colorado for about 2 weeks and then trying to fly to Seattle and catch a cruise up through Alaska. Last Wednesday and Thursday our school had two half days, which were the last days before the holidays. Wednesday was the advisory Olympics. All the Advisories (PCs) dress up in a set uniform (my advisory's was tie-dye, dad's was plaid), then we participate in heaps of different activities, like human pyramid, 3 legged race, egg toss, soccer shootout, tug o war, and the watermelon eating contest. My advisory didn't win many, but i think we got the spirit award since we had a boom-box, tent and energy bars. Even though it was really fun, it was such bad conditions. The past couple of days it had been raining and the field we were playing on was drenched. The winner of the tug o war was just the team that could find dry land. Two people had ankle injuries, one was a student called moose who broke his ankle falling in the tug o war, and the other was a teacher who was wearing flip-flops and got trodden on. It was hectic, a fire truck and an ambulance were called in. On Thursday, the last day of school, was exhibition day. It was pretty boring, but afterwards the whole school had a picnic, and I just hung around my friends for a while and went home. The rest of the week was no school, except for dad who had to go in on Friday for planning. Sunday we went to the Coal Creek festival to see what it was like. I found it to be just like an amplified market, although they provided lunch with all the free samples. Monday was memorial day, and we must have been the only people who didn't put up the US flag. They had the Bolder Boulder on as well, it's a run like the city to surf. While that went on we all went up to Chautauqua park to do the final flatiron. We're saving the best one for when we have visitors.