Summary

Gosh! I hadn't even noticed that it's been over a month I last wrote. Anyway, I intend to catch up. School has finally ended (after the principal tried to freeze half the school by making us stay out at ressess during a snow storm, which resulted in a lot of fuss (which would have been avoided if he just let us in) ). We now have around a foot of snow and R.C and I are planning on building a fort soon. We went tobogganing with dad today, lots of fun, and just as we got home, Grand-maman and Grand-papa arrived! Right on time,too, for my piano recital. In this recital, every person at my piano school had to play a Christmas song. I played Joy to the World.
Tomorrow is R.C's violin recital, so I might try to persuade her to write about it.
Phew, what a lot to say!

Strange storm

It all started this morning. It was freezing cold. Not weather you want to be out in without a warm coat. Anyway, the cold led to rain (hard), witch led to ice. Strange. That's all.

A roof of green

At last! The green roof is in! It looks grate, although a little dead, but the green roof expert says that it will do better in the spring. He even added that some of the plants might reach 3 meters high! Now that the renovations are done, we are concentrating on decoration...And cleaning! First up, our bedrooms which we will be cleaning this afternoon! Whew!

Labyrinth H16

two days ago, we went around old Montreal with our cousins and decided to stop by the labyrinth H16. The point of the labyrinth was to find who stole the Jewel of the Cunningham family. I have never being more confused in my life! We traveled through bars, rubber panels, seat belts hanging from the ceiling, slid down slides and supermarket rollers, bounced on trampolines and tripped over mats, struggling to find clues in rooms to figure out whodunit. After an hour and a half of turning around and around and running after waiters with ties we found the exit! We all agreed it was time for some ice cream.

Shack attack!

Summer vacations! What better time to go to the shack (our cabin on lake Nigani) ? None, I'd say, so that's where we went this week-end. We went sailing on our optimist, the Beluga, canoed and swam across the lake, did a picture shoot of us diving, and had a little adventure with a snapping turtle named platypus. Now no one knew for sure what the turtle's name was but we named it that because we were playing crazy eights when Ray-Ray said;

-Hey! There's something on the lake with a beak! It's probably a platypus!

All the time we were trying to identify it Ray-Ray kept telling us that it was certainly a platypus because what other animal has a beak and dives underwater like that? So when it turned out to be a turtle, Ray-Ray said;

-If it isn't a platypus, than Platypus is it's name. And so it was decided.

Around our dock there are lots of rocks and these rocks are the homes of many fishes. I call this area Rainbow City. I like to pretend it is my empire and so it is my duty to dive into it to count my citizens (the fishes) . In the time we were there, I counted 42 of them! It was a very exciting trip, I can't wait to go again!

More news!

And now, for the very first time, a post from the family computer (which still doesn't have high speed internet)! Even if it's been a while, I feel I must finish recounting our March break. After the farm, as you know, we went to Montreal, and breaking our regular "stick around" routine, went sight seeing. First, we visited the Biodome to visit the St-Laurence exhibit and the Rain Forest exhibit. I don't mean to dissuade those of you who relish a swim in the St-Laurence, but there are stingrays in there (and carnivorous looking fish, but only at the bottom). What I love most are the tide pools like this one, because they remind me of little treasure troves. In the tropical part, we saw more fish, wallabies, alligators and at least a dozen different species of birds, all of which were quite colorful. And that finishes my tale of exiting adventures.

Thats all folks!

An exciting break

At last, March break has come. Already, we have had several adventures. We began our trip in Toronto, shortly after Dad left for work. Our first stop was Ottawa, and we got there WITHOUT GETTING LOST! We stayed at our cousin's place and took Emma (one of our cousins) to the Parliament Buildings, took a tour, and saw the most fascinating stuff! Did you know that it was the librarian that insisted that the library be built in metal, to protect it from fire? Or that in the chapel, the nameplates that indicate the major battlefields that Canada helped during the wars were made from cannonballs from those battlefields? Those are just some of the things that we discovered! Then, in a shot of inspiration, Mom decided that, in honor of womens day,we would go have high tea. After that, we went to the farm and had heaps of fun sliding off the barn roof! now, we are in Montreal and ready for more and we can't wait!