A new adventure

We have tickets! we are now officially going to turkey! R.C and I are very exited, because dad has told us we will be flying quite near the north pole! We are taking a 14 hour plane ride to Istanbul, staying there for four days, then taking a train to Ankara, from witch Pierre and Sharon will take us visiting the rest of the country. I just can't wait!

Higher!

I got my pogo stick for Christmas. I have been practicing for around three weeks, interrupted only by eating, sleeping, and a case of appendicitis. The record for this house still stands at 143 jumps and 16 bruises (but I have a suspicion that the bruises might come from throwing myself onto our ice slide at school). Now I must be off to continue my training!

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!