Is It Yeehaw Or Yahoo?

Over the summer my family went to a lot and I mean A LOT of stampede breakfasts.

The first one we went to was at Creekside Co-op. The Co-op wasn't to far away from my house. At the stampede there was of course a really long line but it moved quickly.  For breakfast we had pancakes, sausages and an orange or apple juice box. I wanted to go into the bouncy castle but I am too big. While eating there was a singer singing Canadian songs and I saved a balloon! The balloon was floating away from a baby and I chased after it and returned it.

The second breakfast was for Family Day at the Stampede.  It was fun.  Again there was a long line for breakfast but to pass the time I played a virtual  reality truck game. The people who worked there taught me how to ''drive'' the car and put some goggles on me. When they put those on me I was put into the game! My car was called Clean Finish, and I came in second place! We got the same thing to eat. We ate and played some games and then we went home.

The third breakfast was in the neighborhood. We went to the plaza near my house and got breakfast.
It was raining a lot so we sat in the car and ate. After we ate we went back home and just relaxed. I watched Master Chef on On Demand. I watched ep. 3.

The fourth breakfast was at Market Mall. There was music and a long line. It was raining again so we went inside to eat our pancakes.  We got a bit wet but they were still good. After we ate we went to Kernels and bought some popcorn. We got Say Cheese Cheese. They were very, very yummy. When we were done we went to the dentist for an appointment.

The fifth breakfast was at Dalhousie Station and all we did was eat and go home where I watched some of The Amazing Race Canada.

The sixth breakfast was at Crowfoot Co-op but we did not go because I told my mom that there were pancakes coming out of my ears and I was sweating maple syrup.

I can't wait to have pancakes again next year!

        

Another Year Older

On July 7th 2008 I was born,and now in 2017 I am nine. Want to know what I did on my birthday? Of course you do.

So, the first thing I did was wake up screaming  "it's my birthday" over and over again. I woke my sister up and we got ready for my b-day (birthday). After we got ready we drove all the way to my favourite breakfast place ever...IHOP. I ordered five big buttermilk pancakes, banana pennies, strawberries, Nutella  and strawberry lemonade. It was awesome but of course I didn't finish all of it.

After we ate, we went to see Smurfs: The Lost Village. It was amazing! That is all I can say...really...I have no words.

After we watched the movie, we went to a place even better than Flying Squirrel.  Injanation!!! It had American Ninja Warrior obstacles and rock climbing, but best of all, it had trampolines. The obstacles were easy and hard. I almost did everything but I couldn't do all of the ring monkey bars.

At the rock climbing station, we had to put on harnesses because it is always safety first. But the harnesses hurt so much! Anyway, there were four types of rock climbing stations. The first one was a spiral, the second one was a climbing rope, the third one was a normal rock climbing wall and the fourth was a rock climbing wall that timed you.

My sister and I played on the trampolines. We played dodge ball on them and my sister started singing the song "he's a pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean. We played a lot and I hurt my shoulder. After we played doge ball, we went to the big trampolines and did tricks. We stayed for an hour and then we left.

The last thing we did was bowling. I got one hundred and one points and my sister got one hundred and six points, so she won. When we were on our way home, we got an ice cream cake. At home, we Skyped my dad and opened presents, and cut the cake.  Now I am nine years old!                                                                                                                                                                  

A Trip Back In Time

One day there were some little Sparks who went to the wrong barn.  They were supposed to go to the red barn but they went to the grey barn instead.

Hi everyone! Sorry I did not post a blog in like a month but I was really busy with competitions, recitals and classes but now school is done and I can get back to my blogging. In my Language Arts class, we learnt about ways to get the reader's attention when writing a story.  One of the ways, is to write an opening that will make the reader want to find out more.  I started my story in the above paragraph.  If I have your attention and you want to find out more, please continue to read my story, below.

On June 24th, I went on a sleepover at Heritage Park with my mom,sister and the Sparks unit that my mom leads. In case you are wondering, Sparks is the youngest level in Girl Guides. As I already said, we went to the wrong barn and had to drive all the way to the other barn. Once we got there, we met Brenna, who was in charge of the barn and was taking care of us. You should know that even though it was a barn, there were no animals inside, but bunk beds, a kitchen and a dining area.  First we went and chose bunk beds and who you were sharing a bunk bed with. I was sharing a bunk bed with my sister. My sister was on the bottom and I was on top. My sister and I had already decided that we would be partners.

After we set up our sleeping bags and our pillows and all that jazz, we headed to the tables for dinner.  There was Caesar salad, pizza, juice boxes, and brownies.  After dinner, we had a fire drill and a short tour of the park.  On our way back, we saw a deer and I was able to tell everyone that it was a white-tailed buck because I had learnt about them at school this year.  When we got back to the barn, we went upstairs to do some activities.

There were many activities for us to do and we took turns at each station.  There were old-fashioned toys for us to play with.  There was no tv or internet in the old days so the kids had to play with only these toys.  They also spent a lot of time outside.  There was also a box of wooden log pieces and we had to build cabins using them.  I learnt how to write in cursive handwriting using chalk and slates.

There was a craft station where we made paper fans and then we learnt that if girls held the fan in certain ways, they were speaking in code to the boys, at dances.  Some of the things they were saying were "dance with me", "go away", and "you may kiss me" - yuck!  We also learnt a dance and some of us were boys and some of us were girls.  My sister and I were boys but her partner was a lot shorter than her and kept doing her own thing, so my sister kept looking at my mom with a confused face.  Mom couldn't help because she was too busy laughing!  The whole dance was really funny!

My favourite activity was making ice cream.  We put all the ingredients into a churner with lots of ice and the whole time that we were doing the activities, the ice cream had to be churned so whoever was free did that.  We knew that the ice cream was getting ready because it kept getting harder to turn the handle.

After the activities were done, we went back downstairs for a snack before bedtime.  We ate popcorn and the ice cream that we had made.  It was the best vanilla ice cream that I have ever eaten!  After a quick story, we went to sleep.  We were all very tired.

The next morning, we had to pack up our gear first and make sure that we did not forget anything.  The bakery at Heritage Park made our breakfast and we got to eat fresh and hot pastries, muffins, and sausage rolls.  There was also fruit, yogurt, and juice but the sausage rolls were my favourite.  Before leaving the park, we had time for a scavenger hunt and we went around the town finding clues and answering questions.

It was a great sleepover, and we all had a lot of fun.  I'm going back again in October and I can't wait!

Spring Break - part 3

Hello!  In my last blog, I ended it with unpacking in Mexico.  After we unpacked, we went down to the snack bar near the pool.  At the snack bar, I ate mac-n-cheese, fries and carrots.  I wanted to go in the pool, but my mom said that we had had a long day and we should get some sleep.  I was a little sad because I couldn’t swim right away, but we had seven days of vacation left.

After we got ready for bed, I sat out in the balcony and watched the birds fly; it was so amazing. As I went in, I started to feel really sleepy. I got in to bed and took off my glasses and went to sleep. That was my first sleep in Mexico! In the morning my dad woke my sister and I up by moving the curtains so the sun was shining on our faces. We woke up groaning as the sun felt like cooked eggs on our foreheads. I quickly got dressed because today we were going to the pool!

When we got to the pool I jumped in and came right out because the water was freezing. Then my sister came and pulled me in. I was really scared but I remembered to hold my breath. After that the water started to get warmer. I started to swim and after about half an hour of swimming I got out and went to the beach. It was my first time at a beach! I played in the waves and… got completely wet! Good thing there were showers at the beach! I got off all the sand and we went back to our room.

We had buffet dinners every night and watched a different show each day.  In the morning, it was swimming and the beach, every day.  We spent a whole week doing only this and it was great!  This was the best Spring Break ever!  I can’t wait to go back every year and spend a whole week in sunny Mexico!    

Spring Break Part 2

Ola!  In my last blog, I ended with my mom,sister and I arriving in Vancouver. At the Vancouver airport, we meet my dad! I was really happy to see him. It had been three months since I saw him last.  After hugging him a lot, we went to eat at the food court in the airport. My sister and I got ice cream,then we chatted a bit while eating our food before we went though security. While waiting, my sister and I had a drawing contest. She won most of them. After a bit of ice cream I looked out side the window and saw three planes land and take off!

Then we went through security.  The Vancouver security is like the Calgary airport except that it is in Vancouver. After we got through security, we waited to board the plane. It felt like days of waiting and then finally we got onto the plane. My mom,sister and I were in zone three but my dad was in zone five. So my dad sat in front of us on the plane. When we were on the plane it took FOREVER until someone on the speaker said " Please prepare for take off and please put on your seat belts.  Thank you" and then they talked about all the safety stuff such as the life jacket under our seat and how to put on a breathing mask if we need it.

A few minutes later we took off! This flight was four and a half hours long. That was way,way longer then the flight from Calgary to Vancouver. I looked out of the window and an hour later I fell asleep. When I woke up, we were in Mexico! Mexico looked really cool from the plane. This time the landing didn't hurt my ears as much as the last landing. When we arrived at the airport the people there were so nice and there were pictures of dolphins were and nice restaurants. Then we went ou side and got directions to where the bus was waiting to take us to the hotel! The bright sun was making me feel really hot by then!

We got to the bus and put our luggage in a cool little compartment under the bus. On our drive to the hotel we saw lots of different types of cacti. That was so cool! I hadn't seen any cacti before I went to Mexico. The hotel looked amazing. Inside, we signed in and got wrist bands.  The kids' wrist bands said No Alcohol but the adult wrist bands didn't say that. Then my mom and dad got a tour of the hotel and then we went to our room and unpacked.

Mexico was going to be awesome!!!!!!!!!! 
                                                                 

Spring Break - Part 1

Ola, it's me, Aanya.

I went to Mexico for Spring Break.  The place I went to in Mexico is called Cabo San Jose.  It is such an awesome place.  It is very hot and there's only a slight breeze in the evenings.  When I left Calgary, it was still so cold, and I was very happy to be in the sun.

I liked going to the airport in Calgary.  It was very early in the morning and there were not very many people there.  My mom, sister, and I only had a couple of bags each and we could carry them ourselves.  The first thing we did was find out information about our flight from a screen.  There was a bit of a wait for checking in and more people started to arrive.  We were so thirsty that we had to buy water but we had to finish it before we reached security.  This was no problem for my sister, but it was really hard for me to do.

Before we checked in, we had to see if our luggage could fit in the measuring bins.  My suitcase did, but my mom and sister had to check their suitcases in.  The backpack and purse were fine and we carried them to the plane with us.  It was really cool to see how the machine took the suitcases away so that they could be put on the plane in a separate compartment.

At security, we all had to put everything that we were carrying into a x-ray machine.  We also had to walk through a metal gate.  After that, there was a lot of waiting.  I got bored while waiting to board the plane...ha, ha, ha!

We did get on the plane with so many other people and found our seats. I sat by the window with my sister next to me, and my mom sat just behind us.  A bit more of waiting and then...TAKE OFF!  It was a short flight to Vancouver, where we would have to change planes.  There was a screen in the seat in front of me and I spent the whole time watching Moana, and some tv shows.

I loved being on a plane.  The last time I flew, my mom told me that I was very small and I can't remember that.  The only thing that I didn't like, was the landing at Vancouver airport.  My ears were hurting for some time before we landed and I was crying a little bit.

I was very happy when we reached Vancouver because of two things.  We were almost in Mexico, but I was most happy to see my dad, who was meeting us in Vancouver.

Destination Conservation Team

Two weeks ago on Monday, I went on a  Destination Conservation field trip. Destination Conservation is a team of students from different grades that think of ways to make their school green. My Destination Conservation team only has eight students. For the field trip we went to Beddington Elementary School. I had a super awesome time there.😃

At Beddington school we made name tags and settled in; then a woman gave us an enormous piece of paper.  On that paper we needed to write a short little song that had something to do with what our school did and our song is: 🎜 If you go down Barrett Drive you will see our compost bins. Do not throw you snack wrappers out. If we recycle everybody wins. Remember to reuse; the environment is for everyone. D-R-C-O-F-F-I-N(I-N); Dr Coffin cares.🎜

The second thing we did was to make a chart with these categories:  MAKE IT, MOVE IT, USE IT. and LOSE IT. My group was MAKE IT. We got an item and we had to figure out how it was made, by only looking at the ingredients.🍲

The last thing we did was plan what we will do next.  Then we  made waste-less lunches and also made an antibacterial soap spray. We went back to our school on the Dream Wagon, which is what the bus was called.🚌