At the camp

Last week, from Tuesday to Friday, was the six grader's annual end-of-year trip. After a seven and a half hour drive, we finally got to the camp where we were staying. As soon as we stepped out of the bus, we were sweped up into a whirlwind of activities lasting from 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM every day. Among these were archery, rock climbing, swimming (shhh! no one is supposed to know that!), survival in the woods giant stratego and hebertism, a sport wich involves poles , ropes trees and falls. It is also a system they used in the navy to keep soliders in shape for combat. Ingoring the blood-thirsty mosquitos, We all had an awesome time!

Archery

One of the Herbertism courses

Unicycling

Lately, our babysitter Celeste has introduced us to the unicycle club. Me and Rennée are practicing very hard on borrowed unis, but dad, who seems to have some experience already, is planning to try Unicycle basketball soon. This is a sport that the club organizes at the end of every meeting and looks EXTREMELY difficult. I can ride half the gym without falling now, but it is a lot of work. I will post some pictures as soon as I figure out how to plug dad's camera in.

Francourse

Yesterday, the third graders and up from our school headed out to Brampton for the annual Francourse. This is a 5k race for kids from first grade to eigth, and this year, 1000 kids showed up. Unfortunately, it just so happens that on that particular day, it was over 30 degrees C and the whole cours was in a field, under the bioling sun. Still, I finished in 32 minutes and Renée in 30. The fastest runner was a third-grader from our school, ending in 17 minutes!
All our friends tiered, sunburnt but happy after the race.

Exercise video

This is our home-made exercise video filmed in Turkey. We think it is hilarious, and so I wanted to share it with you all.

A fantastic trip

I will never be able to say everything that has happened on our trip to Turkey in one post, so I will sum it up. We have been all around the west stopping in Istanbul, Ankara, Goreme, Antalya Kas, Pamukale, Selcuk, Bodrum, Bergamon, Bursa and back to Istanbul, making a loop of around 3000 km. We swam in the mediterrainien and in the ancient Roman baths, diped our feet in the calcium waters, explored cave dwellings, saw magnificent temples and really tiered ourseklves out. Touring Turkey with Pierre and Sharon was fun, and now I can't wait to go to Hong-Kong in two years! Here are some pictures in order.

Attaturk's toom, Ankara

Goreme
Goreme as well

In the Meditiranien

The only slightly renovated roman baths in Pamukale

The library at Ehpesus

Dad as a gladiator

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!