Over the holidays!

Hey readers. Sorry I didn't update in a while. I was a little bit busy over the holidays. I made a new layout though, and as you can see I made a spring theme. I always thought spring started on the 21st of March, but some people say its now on the 1st of March. Apparently is has been brough forward due to global warming. Either way, I really did need a new layout :P

As you can see in the title, I am about to tell you what I did over this short two week holiday.
Mari got to go Skiing with our neighbor Theo and his family, so me mom and Tomas decided to do something fun as well.

First we went to Hippopotamus which is one of those resturaunts that sales loads of meat and has a lot of Americans in there, even though we're in France :P
It was very nice though. In the end we got to keep the Hippopotamus shaped swizzle sticks to mix drinks and the Hippopotamus shaped things they put in food for decoration. :)

Then a couple of days later we went to a local Nature reserve Park that only kept animals that they had saved or taken from Circuses or Zoos. most of the park is a drive through one so the animals aren't in cages, but there was some parts where you could walk around.

We saw all different kind of animals, Deer, Oxes, Elephants, Giraffs, Zebras, Lions, more deer, Hippos, Ostridges, Bears, goats, wolves, tigers, otters, snakes, red pandas, turtles, Lynxes, and loads more I'm not listing.

My favorite we're the Giraffs, hippos, tigers, Elephants and wolves, but I most likely would have liked the otters one the best if they hadn't been sleeping.

The Giraffs had these really tall pilers that had a huge cube of hay attached to them to they didn't have to bend their necks to eat. I've heard a myth that if Giraffs lower their heads to the ground, they will for some reason vomit. I always think of how long it'd, take because they're necks are so long…

"What are those rocks doing there?" you might be asking. Or at least that's what I thought at first glance. But this is none other then a family of Hippopotamus. All six (there's a hidden baby) of these Hippos are lazily sleeping in the sun. As you can see they have a huge lake to swim in, and they are obviously well fed :D

In the bear section, there was about 15 bears, most of which were black bears. There was a couple of brown bears too though.

All the bears (especially the one in the picture) reminded me of Gracie for some reason. Almost more then the wolves did. They're body language was almost identical to Gracie's even though they're so different. They did stuff like walk slowly like Gracie, Curl their paws like Gracie, smell around like Gracie and even roll around the same (though that reminded me more of Iris).

Just when you arrive at the walk-through part of the park there is this really hard and funny maze, that seems to go on forever and has loads of bridges and dead ends. There wasn't really a middle, it was more like you had to try and get onto the bridges. One could try to look for a way to another bridge standing on a bridge themselves, but I personally didn't find it did much help :P

There was also a goat petting farm where about 25 goats just lazed around being pat by people and always biting buttons, bags and shoe laces. They has these very tall logs and stumps for the goats to stand on. It always looked really odd when they got up onto them.

There were also loads of birds, small monkeys, kangaroos, tigers, more deer, rinos and much more at the walk though part, and there was a separate part that was made for the reptiles which was really cool, but for today I think I'm done with describing them :)

We may go back to the Animal Park soon, (we still didn't see the owls, monkeys, castle or gardens yet) and I'll describe the other animals then if we go. Goodnight for now, and I hope you like my new layout :D

Can't think of title...

Hey readers. Its been almost a month since I last updated, and there's not that much to talk about really :P
I've been busy with my homeschooling work, and hadn't really had much time for updating my blog. There's been a lot going on on neopets also so I've been rather busy.

Thomas and I made a new book shelf near my bed, I sort of helped Thomas with some gardening and I've also been doing some photoshop for Thomas's movie.

I spend most of the day with Mari who was home today because she had a fever. The weather has been very nice over the last couple of days and I managed to take a couple pictures of some really nice flowers growing everywhere in the garden.



Gracie and Iris have been playing in the garden a lot. Iris has become obsessed with football. She never brigs the ball back though, she just chases it and waits for me to come and kick it again. Gracie often fake fights Iris for the ball just to say "I'm the boss". :P



We captured a couple more baby mice. The problem is, they're so fast I can't ever get a good picture of them. They run so quick, they seem to vanish. I''ll post a movie of them on my next post :)



Me and Mari have been doing a lot of cooking lately (when she wasn't sick).
This pizza was suppose to be a Harry Potter pizza, but when it was put in the oven it sort of messed up a little :P
we made everything put the tomato sauce under the thin layer of cheese. Mari made the dough herself :)



I also made some cakes and pies. I forgot to take a photo of the pie though...


Thomas took Mari, her friend Theo and me to the ice skating rink on Sunday. There weren't that many people there which was good. Thomas told me that the machine that freezes the ice is the same machine as the one that makes the water in the swimming pool warm. My mom doesn't think its true though :P


I've been learning a little about Klein bottles for a while now. The Klein bottle is of course related to the Möbius strip which I find very interesting. :D

But that's all I have time for tonight. I'll update again sooner then I did before. Adn I'll probably make a new layout. until then, goodbye.

I haven't updated all year...

Hey everyone. Sorry I didn't update my blog over the Christmas holidays. It was pretty busy in the house and I couldn't fine the time.
Anyway, my holiday was really fun. Kelli stayed for about two weeks, and we had a lot of fun with her here. She taught us how to play some card games like poker and also showed us some cool magic tricks :P
It was really nice to have her around.

We got a family Christmas present this year. Its a lap top called a OLPC XO-1 (er…I think anyway) and because we bought it, a kid in Africa or India or somewhere gets one to help them with their education :D
You can read more about it here if you want. Its quite interesting :)


It hasn't snowed here yet, but the pond in the park did freeze over and it got pretty cold. Kelli taught us that if you throw a rock across the ice and theres an odd sort of echo when it slides, that means there is water under the ice and its not stable. A really useful trick I've found. Thomas says if it does snow it won't be until around February.

We're still trying to take down our Christmas decorations, but can't seem to do it. We trimmed the tree so it has no more branches, but still have the trunk and the lights up. As for the stockings, we stuffed them with the baubles from the tree and they don't seem to go anywhere yet. We're not sure weather to burn the wreath... and the tinsel makes such a nice reflection we can't seem to move it. But I'm sure we'll be able to do it soon... Probably the day we send off the gifts to you Jess, leah, and CJ. Which will be soon we promise :)

Anyway, Here are some links to some cool news reports and videos mom showed me. Enjoy :D



This kinda grosses me out a bit. Could you imagine finding one of these in your house? But in a way their kinda cute. I hope they don't do loads of tests and stuff on them... I hate when they do that.

A girl called Annette Obrestad beat a famous poker player Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker :D
She is only 19 And won £1m!
I'm glad to see a girl win :P
You can read more here.

If your boared, here are 45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free :P

I don't know if anyone needs some storage tips, but heres some if you need it :P

and that's all for tonight. I'll update again soon. Maybe in about a week or so.
Until then, bye :)

Christmas is Coming!

Hey, sorry I haven't updated for a while. For some reason I always seemed to have something that needed to be done until now. Anyway, here's what I've been doing over the last 12 days:

First of all we're halfway through decorating our living room with Christmas decorations. I think it looks really nice and can't wait until Christmas :P

(It looks a lot better in real life...)
If you're wondering what that odd yellowish light at the bottom of the Christmas tree is, it's a trail of slightly creepy angel lights.


Mari, Kelli and my stockings are the only stockings currently empty. We still put up Jesse, Leah, and CJ's stockings even though we know you're not coming :( They currently have two items each in them :D

Kelli is coming next Monday which will be really cool :D
We're not sure whether or not to ask Isabelle (our cleaning lady) to clean the spare room. It's really disgusting after Alain the "Zen Buddhist" slept in there. The dogs won't even go near it, so we don't really want to make Isabelle go in there...



Mari made these along with the star on the tree for the Christmas Market thing near her school. She gave the red moon to me :D
They hold candles and slowly spin. :)

Mari and I bought everyone presents at the Christmas market. Here's a picture of them all together :D

The green one at the back is Kelli's. We didn't get her any stocking fillings yet because we weren't sure what to get :P

Oh yeah, and Thomas got me and Mari some advent calenders! The chocolate in them is wonderful :D


Mari and I did some baking today. We were thinking about trying to make some gingerbread people but decided against it. We made sugar cookies that I didn't have time to take a photo of because I was reading Harry Potter to Mari and she ate the lot without my notice. I want to try and make a modern Gingerbread house though like this one (joke):


I do however actually want to learn how to make these 3D snowflakes:

There's a really cool (and complicated) ghttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifuide here.

I've read a lot of articles on how people have just discovered that animals are smarted than we think. I've read an article on Chimps,Crows and dogs.

There was a Mysterious mammal caught on film on the BBC web site. It says he/she can be found in deserts in Mongolia and China. I absolutely love their tails! I didn't notice a second ago :D


And, if you haven't had enough of my animal links,
Japanese scientists create mice with no fear of cats!

My mom gave me a link to the thing I truly would love to get for Christmas. The Tales of Beedle the Bard... Sadly its being auctioned off tonight and I've not yet saved up the £40,000 needed. I've never wanted something as much as this before... If I had it, I'd probably be too scared to let anyone else touch it :P


And sadly I have to end this post with a bit of bad news. Iris was finally fixed a couple days ago and is in a bit of pain at the moment. The worst part of it all is that she has some fleas on her that make annoying bites she now can't scratch because of her head thingy. We can't give her the flea medicine because the vet (or my mom, I can't remember) said not to.


Anyway, Thats all I have time for tonight. I have many guild members waiting for their leader and need some sleep. I'll update again soon :D