centennial beach

on friday I went centennial beach with  my class on a field trip . at the beach I caught all sorts if little animals like 2 fish 2 mini shrimp ish things  2or3 hermit crabs and a very tiny crab. got to go now bye.

April 30th 2011

today I did some gardening with nikki and granpa. we planted all sorts of things like marigolds straw berries potatoes ostespermums carrots poppys and lots of other plants. I had lots of fun today and I hope what we planted survives.

Monday March 28

They had a lot of tulips in Holland (wooden ones and real ones)

We had to get up very early to get on the plane in time. We flew from Liverpool in England on a short 1 hour trip to Amsterdam.  In Amsterdam it was hard at first to find some food and then we could tell McDonalds was near because we saw a Ronald McDonald.

Ronald McDonald choking me!

There was 1 hour delay and then we got on the plane and came home. I had a great trip and I hope to go to England again soon.

Sunday March 27

We went over to Di's house to look at a whole bunch of wedding pictures that were taken at the wedding and they said there were some really good ones that I took and some really good ones of me.  There were some pictures on Sara's camera that we didn't know who had taken them until we saw a picture of Lucy that she had taken herself.

We had a meal at Di's.  The edible roses from the wedding cake were there.  We made boquets out of the flowers that were in the wedding.  My favourite flowers were the big white Gerbera daisies, but unfortunately I didn't get to keep any because we couldn't bring them home on the plane. 

We also celebrated Kellie's birthday because we weren't going to be there on her real birthday on April first.  We gave her a card made of sheep poop and she really liked it!

Saturday March 26

This was the day of the wedding.  We got there pretty early and I liked the beginning because when we got there we set up the video camera and we were filming people coming in.  My Auntie Kellie didn't know there was a camera on so she kind of snarled a bit.  It was funny.

When I saw Benjamin come in I really liked his suit (because I didn't get to see it before when we were picking it up).  At the beginning part when we all sat down there were really nice things with boquets of flowers and candles on them and all the chairs were nicely decorated. I was going to sit in the first row but then the best man had to sit in the first row so I got to sit in the second row besides Daniel and Sara. When Pauline came in I really liked her dress.

Pauline and Benjamin

Once they were married we had to go outside the room. Benjamin and Pauline came outside to take a bunch of pictures and we threw confetti at them.

When we went back in there were a bunch of tables set up. There was something with your name to tell you which table to sit at.  Our table was called Angelsey.  I sat with my mom, Grammy, Grandad and Uncle Ron.  I liked the food I had. It was really yummy.  For desert I got to have ice cream and I found out that Mike really liked ice cream cake.  Everyone else had cheesecake but I got ice cream instead.  I ate a little bit and then I gave the rest to Mike so he could have ice cream cheesecake. After we ate lunch we left that room again and went back later for the evening part. By then there were a lot of more tables because more people had come for the second part and there was a dance floor.  They cut the cake and then Benjamin and Pauline had their first dance. Then we could go up and dance whenever we wanted to and we could request songs. At the end of the night I wanted to stay longer but I got dragged home because I had to go to sleep.

Friday March 25

We went to Robertos with Ron, Di, Stewart, Daniel, Sara, Kellie, Mike, Mom, Grammy and Grandad. I had a really runny nose so we had to go to the Pharmacist so my nose wouldn't be too red for the wedding the next day.

After Robertos we went to Auntie Di's house.  I went outside with Uncle Stewart and we went to his pond and tried to fix the fountain but the top of it got lost in the pond so we had to fish around for it in the bottom.  We found a big frog, a little frog, a live fish and a dead fish in the pond.  Grandad took the big frog all around the house to show everyone.  After that we finally found the top and we put it on and later it actually worked.

Thursday March 24

We went to the Catholic Cathedral in liverpool



I liked the big glass windows outside the Cathedral.

After we had been to the Cathedral I went on the Liverpool Wheel with my Grandad and I could see all of Liverpool. I liked seeing the liver birds on the Liver Building.  The clocks on the Liver Building are bigger than Big Ben.

After the Liverpool Wheel I went to the Pizza Express with my Grandad.  The pizza there was really good.  Then we had to be fast getting to the Duck because we were almost late  The duck was really cool because it could go on the land and in the water.

After we got off the duck I went with my mom to the Tate Gallery. At theTate Gallery there were a lot of cool modern sculptures:

There was this sculpture and I was wondering how it could stand up.  I couldn't figure it out - I thought it might be attached to the ceiling but it didn't look like it.  After looking everywhere my mom finally told me it was attached to the ceiling. It was really cool.

Outside this looked like a little small box but on the inside it looked like it was going on forever and ever and ever as though it would never stop.

Anthony Gormley's "Another Place"

I liked the men on the beach.  They went out for as far as I could see both ways.  Apparently some of them got taken away because boats couldn't get into the dock. They were only supposed to be there for a year but then they decided to keep them and that's when the sailors started complaining.

Next we went to Benjamin and Pauline's house.  I liked their house and I liked their backyard. We went to a pub with Ian and Lin and I was glad to see them because I hadn't seen them in a long time.  Nick is their son.  We also saw Nick and his finacee Sam when they joined us towards the end of the meal.  I realised I only had 4 days left in England and then I got all sad but then I was also happy because I was happy for the wedding.

Wednesday March 23



Outside Lady Lever Art Gallery



Lady Lever Art Gallery had a bunch of Lord Lever's things and had soaps that Lord Lever made. It was very interesting.

There was a girl there that I liked. She was on a really tall chair reading a book.On the chair there were alot of castles. 



Tuesday march 22

We went to New Brighton and had fish and chips for lunch. Then went to space port.The space port had a Wallace and Gromit exhibit

monday march 21

I visited Raeburn Primary School (my mom's old elementary school) with my mom and her sister. The headmistress there was really nice amd wanted me to go there the next time I was in England. I went around on a tour of the school and told the classes how school was different in Canada than there. After that I went to assemely and I got to give out an award. After the assembly the headmistress gave me head teacher stickers, an award and a meadal. then we met up with Di and my grandparents at Zugers. Then we went to Parkgate to see the high tide. At the end of Parkgate there was a whole bunch of bird watchers and people selling pins so I bought one. Later that night I went to girl guides meeting in Ness. At girl guides we played dodge ball then we made brides and roses and cup cakes for part of the royal wedding badge. After that we played splat bang, then the leader announced the winners for the best bride, best cupcake and best rose I won best bride and got a chocolate santa. At the end of the night I also got a box of badges. 

Sunday march 20

I went to Zoe’s for a fundraiser. For the fundraiser we did a draw for prizes. You could also buy things there. I also met a girl named Ellie. We played in the back yard with Maila and Carter (Zoe’s kids). Their backyard is really big with a play house, a see saw a little garden. After playing in the back yard we went inside to do the draw. After that we went home.

saturday march 19th

We went to my great aunt di's house for great uncle rons birthday. He opened presents then we had cake. Ron had a candle on his birthday cake that sang happy birthday and when we left Enland it was still going. We didn't do much else that day.

red nose day mar 18

On March 18th it was red nose day. On Red Nose Day all of England donates to the contry of their choice and donate money to the poor people in that contry.You can donate by buying red noses and other things that you can buy for Red Nose Day. Also on the night of Red Nose Day they will show you funny videos like this: smithy saves red nose day 2011 and sad videos to get you to donate money and to call 03457 910910. Red Nose Day is also called Comic Relief because they do lots of things to make people laugh.They only have Comic Relief every 2 years because it is alot of work.I think Red Nose Day is a really good idea and they should have it here in canada.

Fridaymarch18


We went to Flint castle and Conwy castle. Llandudno was the name of a town we went to get rock (rock is a type of candy). Great Orme is a mountian. I played at park at Great Orme.







Flint Castle






Llandudno

 

Thursday March 17

Birkenhead Priory

Went to Birkenhead Priory which was 1200 years old and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. We had a tresure hunt which was really hard because not all the exhiibits were on show. There were also saw dresses made out of glass We shopped in a place called Liverpool One. We hadn't realised it was St Patricks Day, there was lots of people dressed in green. We met Mom's cousin because he was picking his wedding suit up. Aftee that we went for a meal with him and his fiancee at a tapas bar called La Tasca. 

Walker Art Gallery

Wednesday March 16

We went to Robertos after breakfast and I saw Ron and Di.  I got a bag of presents from Di there. I had a play with 3 girls and 1boy that I just made frients with that live down the road.

Tuesday march 15

On the way back from the plane I went to ness gardens. I ordered a pancake because I forgot that it was an English pancake.I tried to stay awake but I couldn’t I fell asleep. When my aunt di came, I tried to stay awake but I fell asleep.I felt really bad after that. That night I was really happy to sleep.

amsterdam mar 15

We landed in amsterdam early in the morning I liked all the clogs and tulips . In the gift shop there was a lot of miffy stuff like clogs, stuffys, miffy key chains, miffy clog magnets etc. There were also tulips and clogs you could buy. I wanted to get some thing but we had no Euros. When we had to put our things in the box at security the guy keep moving it away from me. It was pretty funny. Then we had to wait a while to get on a bus to our plane, then we went up the stairs to the plane. We got on the plane and had a snack then arrived in Liverpool in England pretty much right away because the plane ride was only an hour.

the plane mar 14 - 15

 The plane ride was very long. It was 9and a half hours. My mom and I didnt get alot of sleep. On the plane there was a T.V. but it was not working for most of the time wich sucked. The T.V. startet working a bit near the end of the trip. The movies didnt really work so I just played games on it . The food wasnt so good trust me you dont want to try it.There was a great veiw of the clouds and the land below.