Author: trendfamily

Hello. Day 14 was interesting. we went out to Halifax. we drove there, and the drive had little notable to see. once we got there, there was a lot to see! we started by checking out the Cable Wharf, which is an important dock in Halifax. the Cable Wharf is where the first telegraph cable to go from North America to Europe underwater was started to be laid down. it was interesting to read about the cable, and see what it looked like, and learn about the cable in general. after that we checked out a store called Cows, that had a variety of cow themed merchandise. it looked like it was originally an ice cream store, and it still sold ice cream, but it was mainly cow themed clothing and items. there were a lot of really good cow puns, but they wouldn’t make much sense without the pictures. once we were done there, we went to have lunch. we just stopped at a food court to find something to eat, instead of going to anywhere special. after lunch, we went to Freak Lunchbox, an amazing candy store. we all got some candy there, and it was awesome. the ceiling was decorated with candy boxes and stuff, and was really cool to see. once we left Freak Lunchbox, we walked down to another store close to where we started, called Peace by Chocolate. Peace by Chocolate has some really, REALLY cool chocolate bars. the wrappers were decorated, not the chocolate, but it was cool anyway. we got a bit of chocolate for ourselves, and might have gotten a bar or four for friends back home. the bars in Peace by Chocolate have specialized things printed on them, like “welcome to Canada” or the word “friend” in five different languages. there was a selection of bars all printed with the pride flag. there were at least 4 different types of pride flag on them, and I liked every one of them. once we had come home (still nothing notable on the way back), we just relaxed and had fun. very little interesting happened after that, so this is the end of this post. bye! -Colin

Hello. day 13 was nice. I started with a breakfast that I have had every day so far: two slices of peanut butter bread and some fruit. it is delicious. after that, I just played with my new game. once I did that, i had lunch. I did some puzzles before that, but it was not very important. after lunch, I played some cribbage with my grandfather, he is really really really good. i didn’t win any of the times we played. afterwards, me and Laura played some Minecraft. I am still terrible at survival, but laura is definitely helping me. once we finished that, we had supper. yesterday was not very eventful. after supper, we all played Pictionary together. the teams were all of the three people. there were some very strange things we had to draw. there was one time when I had to draw Puss in Boots. it was confusing, but I drew a cat face and then started drawing a pair of boots to put the cat in. however, laura’s team guessed her picture of Puss in Boots before I finished drawing the boots. there wasn’t much else that happened that day. I guess that’s all for taday. bye. -Colin

Hi. yesterday was very nice. we had a good sleep in with daddy managing to sleep the longest. I had a really good breakfast, and the day had begun.not much happened in the morning. after lunch, we played a game of Scrabble which Daddy also won. he got the word ALTITUDES on a double word point square, annd got a bonus 50 points for clearing all of his letters. after that, everyone else went to the farmer’s market but I stayed home to practice Scrabble. i didn’t do very well. I had some luck, being able to spell out LEONINE, but didn’t get many other good words. after everyone ese got home, we took a break from whatever we were doing and just did whatever. in the produce we got from the market, there were some apples that were really really big. they are already eaten. me and Laura agreed to do some minecraft together, but it was not going to happen. the owner of the AirBnB where we were staying was going out on to the bay in a boat. Laura cannot resist an allowance to ride or even drive a boat. I still played a bit of Minecraft on my own, and I had fun anyway. after that happened, Me and daddy went to get my grandparents from the airport. they will be staying with us until we leave here. I was really really really really really really really really really happy to see them. when we all got home, it was already time for supper. earlier that day, I also helped build mummy’s, new Kakapo set. a kakapo is a New Zealand ground parrot with a hilarious flat face, a brilliant green hue, bright blue feet, and a really cute LEGO set. the set includes a large kakapo that is on a smaller scale to a real one, a baby kakapo, and a part hat and top hat that the large kakapo can wear. we are only in bag 2. also on the way here, daddy had given me and Laura some surprises. they were all collectible LEGO things. we each got a little LEGO super mario bros. figure (I got an Ice Bro), and three muppet minifigures. I got Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, one of the two old men, and the Swedish chef. the only minifigure that we don’t have in that series is Beaker. if we get a Beaker, we’ll a.) have all the Muppet minifigures and b.) can make stop-motion Muppet Labs. i am getting off topic now, so I will halt for now. Goodbye until next time! -Colin

Hello! yesterday we finally made it to the AirBnB where we will be stopping for the next two weeks. we started the day at our freinds’ house here we stayed for an hour or two more. then, we left for the AirBnB. my mom had met up with us the previous day, and we all went to the AirBnB together. it was only a forty minute drive to get here, and it is really nice here! we have excellent views, and the house is laid out very nicely. I found a Scrabble game in the living room, and also an edition of Trivial Pursuit. we also brought a multtude of games to play. the kitchen was a bit cluttered, but we figured it out. I like our rooms, as they have very nice vies and beds. I also found a small room at the top of the stairs that had very little room in it, and would probably be used for storage. however, it was completely empty. I might make it into a small fort. I have already made some of the couch cushions into a fort on the couch. I like this place, and I have very few complaints. so few, that I can’t list any! it has a really big backyard or maybe front yard, but I can’t remember which side is which. I have very little left to say right now, and I like how uneventfully perfect this place is. thank you so much for reading these. Bye! -Colin

Hello. I’m going to start by saying from now on, I will be writing about the previous day instead of the current day, as it is much easier. OK. yesterday we finally crossed into Canada! we started the day in a campsite in Maine. Me and Laura had a really long sleep in before we left. it was a much shorter day than any others so far, since we weren’t driving as far. after we got up, we went on and crossed the candian border. it wasn’t very far away, and it was quite easy. after that, we went to the only tourist stop of that day- the world’s largest axe! it was very big, and actually a statue as tall as a house. we took some photos with it, and continued on. after that, we had a very uneventful day, but that was nice. we stopped in a family friend’s house and parked our camper in their driveway. I hung out with a new friend I made there. they were really nice, and we had similar intrests. after a nice day, we made Kraft Mac and Cheese for supper and I was happy. yesterday was a really, really, really good day.it was just uneventful enough that it wasn’t boring or too exciting. I don’t have much else to say about it, so goodbye. -Colin

Hello. I’m talking about yesterday, again. I hope I can get to writing about the day it actually is sometime. today, though, we crossed into Canada! I’ll talk more about this in the next post. yesterday was our longest day of driving in our trip. we also experienced the worst traffic, and the most states passed through in one day. we passed through New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and all the way across Maine to the Canadian border. We stayed in a campsite near the border. the first two hours of that day, we only went 20 miles (32 km)! it was very long, but I had fun with what I did. Me and Laura watched Into the Spider-Verse, the first in a trilogy of spider-man movies that are animated to look like a comic book. I really liked it because there were six different Spider-people from across the multiverse, but it takes place in only one universe. It was awesome. I also started Star Wars ep. V: the Empire Strikes Back and I watched all of Detective Pikachu, but I watched that alone. we all listened to the Aru Shah audiobook together, and finished it. I read a Warriors book that I had gotten at a book fair we visited while we were in New York. I use Super Mario Bros. logic to refer to which book it is. for example, the first book in the first series is 1-1, the sixth book in the fourth series is 4-6, and for super editions I use the abbreviation WSE and an abbreviation of the title. for example, the Super Edition titled Yellowfang’s Revenge would be WSE-YFR. I read the third book in the sixth series, which sounds like a strange choice, but I have read all the main books along with a few super editions. i think i’m rambling about Warriors now.  I have a lot more to say, but all of it is about today. I’ll finish here. Until next time! – Colin

Hi! I’m writing about yesterday, and I will write a second post today about today later. yesterday, we were hanging out and visiting new York. Laura was doing a dance class with her teacher, Mrs. Elizabeth, and I was doing the Edge. the Edge is a 100-story tall building with a viewing platform on the side. the viewing platform has a glass floor on part of it, and slanted glass windows on the sides. it’s also open to the air, and when you’re on it you’re pretty much in the sky, so there are some very strong winds. it was really cool, but also a bit terrifying. I liked it nevertheless, so I had fun. once we came down, we looked for some souveniers, (Laura wasn’t with us here) and find out that the gift shop was out of snow globes. after finding that out, we went to a candy store nearby and bought a whole bunch of candy instead. I’m really enjoying mine. after we did that, we took a bit and went to an ice cream store nearby. I got two scoops of raspberry sorbet in a waffle bowl. a waffle bowl is a name for a bowl made out of waffle cone material that often has sprinkles around the edge. after you finish the ice cream in a waffle bowl, you can eat said bowl because it’s just a waffle cone in the shape of a bowl. that was a lot of information and a lot of the words “waffle” and “bowl”, but I hope you understand. we also took the New york Metro to get there, but it was very crowded. i really did not like it. we also did this walk that was like a nature walk, but it was on the top of an old aboveground train route so all the flowers were on beds, but they weren’t organized much. I took a lot of photos of these, but i’m not going to put them up here because there are WAY too many of them and also I haven’t uploaded them to my computer yet. I have very little left to say about day 8, so I’ll finish here. Bye! -Colin

Hello. sorry I’m posting this so late, but we had a big day yesterday, and 3/4 of the last post had vanished, so i was working on that instead of that day’s post. thankfully, that was the biggest thing that happened yesterday. yesterday we went through Maryland, Pennsylvania, and finished in new Jersey. nothing big happened yesterday, so I’ll give a bit of info on day 8 of the trip! if i didn’t, this would be a very short post. on day 8, we were staying in New Jersey to visit New York. New York is fun, but very crowded. I have decided that “busy city” is not my favourite environment at all. We have been to a really high up place called “the Edge”, went to get some really good ice cream, and walked through a nature trail that was on top of a building. I’ll give more details in the next post, so bye. this was a filler so that I didn’t accidentally forget a day altogether. okay, bye! -Colin

Hello! sorry I forgot to post yesterday. It was very late, and I wasn’t having the best day. yesterday we went to the Smithsonian national Air and Space museum! it was AWESOME!!! but first, the morning was kind of slow. it was a great day, and until we got to the line of the museum i was very happy. the line was very long. very very (very x10) long. however, it was moving very quickly so we got there in no time. in the museum, we saw the very first thing on display in the lobby: the model of the starship Enterprise that was used for the original Star Trek! it was lucky we got there when we did, because the model was all lit up and colorful! by the way, almost everything (excluding things like Voyager 1) were real! we went to two exhibits yesterday. the first one was called to the moon and was about getting to the moon, from the fantasies before we discovered it was possible to get to the moon. there was a variety of capsules there, like: the Freedom 7 capsule used during the Mercury missions that could hold one person; the capsule used during the Gemini missions that held two people; and the return capsule of Apollo 11. I was intruiged the most by the images and information of whet people thought the moon was like before they discovered what it was really like. there were three main periods of different views about what the moon was like. the first one was that the moon was very vibrant and full of life. i found that the stories at this point had two things in common: 1, the characters reached the moon by getting in a big cannonball and then launching the cannonball out of a really really really really big cannon; and 2, there were aliens there. the second thought was after the discovery that the moon couldn’t be full of life, and was that the moon was covered in jagged crater edges, broken mountain ranges, and shattered valleys. the final and correct view is that the moon is covered in valleys, craters, and mountains, but they were rounded from a constant storm of dust and meteorites from space. I liked seeing everything about this. there was also a display of a model of an LRV (Lunar Roving Vehicle) and a wheel and fender from a real one that was duct-taped together! DUC T-TAPED TOGETHER! ON THE MOON!!! the LRV was not a real one that has been on the moon because all the LRVs on the moon are still on the moon. OH! i forgot! there was a model of a T-70 X-wing on display above the stairs! it was very interesting because it was the real thing that was used while filming episode IX of Star Wars and there was a sign talking about it! I also spent a good 5 minutes explaining the various differences between the T-65 X-wing (what Luke Skywalker flew) and the T-70 (used after the Empire, was on display). after that, we moved on to the section about planets. there was a display made up of several screens on one of the walls and one and only one of the panels was rotated 180 degrees, meaning it was ypside down! it was hilarious!! there was then a display about Pluto. I read very deeply into the items about the moons of Pluto, and asked an attendant for more information. Pluto has five moons, one of which is very large in comparison: Charon. the other moons are as follows: Hydra, Styx, Nix, and Kerberos. all of these names have signifigance in Greek mythology. they are: Pluto is the god of the Underworld, and sometimes known as Hades; Kerberos is the 3-headed gurd dog of the underworld; Styx is the river a spirit must cross to access the Underworld; Charon is the boatman for the Styx; and Nix is a somewhat obscure goddess of darkness. Nix is a very fitting name for my D&D character as well, as my character is a rogue. to be clear, i named Nix BEFORE i learned about either the moon or the goddess.we then saw some stuff about the rovers on Mars, and i thought i should tell you this: the rover Opprotunity has lost power because there was too much dust on its solar panels. however, if the dust comes off somehow, Opporotunity should come back! after that, we visited a small exhibit about speed. my dad chose this one, and i wasn’t paying much attention to that. after we came home, we got a pizza and played Mystic Market, which is a very intruiging game that resembles the stock markets. i just like it because i like the game, not the stock markets. it was a very good day. i’m rambling now, so thanks for putting up with this. anyways, Goodbye! -Colin

Hello again! day 5 of our road trip- day 2 of our stay in DC- has been amazing! we visited the Spy Museum. it is a very large museum of international espionage artifacts. those were three very long words, but i expect you know what they all mean. the Spy Museum is an interactive museum where you are given a card with your espionage data on it- a fake ID that you need to remember to keep going- and then you could continue. I liked the Undercover Mission stations, where you tapped your card, and then did an activity that often involved needing to remember things correctly. they were sets of screens where you did those, along with other activitiees throughout the museum. one of these was a challenge where you had to hang onto a bar that suspended you a few inches of the ground and occasionally twitched. i did all 60 seconds that was required to be “successful”, and the operator told me only 1% of all visitors could do that! i enjoyed the museum thoroughly, but i started getting tired at the end of it and we rushed through the last 2 or 3. exhibitions, along with the spy store (gift shop). there was a variety of things i learned, but i can’t choose a favourite. if you ever end up in DC on a trip, i would recommend it, but it takes 2 to 3 hours on average, so don’t do it if you don’t have all day. we also stopped at a bookshop in the morning, and Laura got some books there. finally, we cooked a special Father’s Day Supper for Daddy- Breakfast for supper! I think you can figure out the photos. that’s all i can think of right now, so bye. Until next time! -Colin