August 1, 2008

  • This is going to be really long.........I have a lot a catching-up to do..........

    I guess I'll start up with last week's VBS (Vacation Bible School).  The theme for it was "Amazon Expedition", so we decorated our rooms to look Amazon.  Mama even used her sound machine to make the rain forest noise. 

    Each day we had a word that we learned about.  The words were Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, and Consummation.  (The last day we had three words.)  On the first day we learned about Creation, the second we learned about sin entering the world (Corruption), the third day we learned about the flood (Catastrophe), the fourth we learned about the Tower of Babel (Confusion), and the fifth and final day we learned about Christ, the Cross, and Consummation.

    Also, to go with the Amazon theme, we learned about an Amazon animal every day.  For example, on Monday we learned about a jaguar, on Tuesday an anaconda, on Wednesday a basilisk lizard, on Thursday an armadillo, and a Friday a morpho butterfly.  So that was pretty neat.

    On Friday, after VBS was over, I was waiting for my four friends from Japan to come and pick me up to go to Busch Gardens and Williamsburg.  While I was waiting outside, I saw my next door friend with the new girl that lives down the street, Rachel.  My next door friend had told me about her a little, and now I finally saw her.  She had actually been coming to VBS, so I knew her!  That was kind of funny.

    Anyway, my friends came to pick me up, and we drove to my friend's grandparent's house to spend the night.  We had burgers for dinner, and while my friend's grandfather was mixing the ground beef with some kind of spice, he cut off a pretty small piece of meat and just ate it raw, so my friend was like, "That's gross!", and then her grandfather was like, "No it's not.", and then I'm like, "You can get a disease from eating raw meat.", and then he's like, "Well, if I drop dead tomorrow, then you'll be right, but if I don't, then I'll be right." 

    Then, he was spraying Pam on the pan where the burgers were going to be, and my friend didn't know what it was, so she looked at me like "That's disgusting.", and her grandfather said, "What's with you?", and he sprayed her on the face with the Pam.  So that was kind of weird, but the burgers turned out really good, and we watched National Treasure in bed.

    In the morning we had breakfast and then left for Busch Gardens.  We had brought sandwiches for the car, so we ate them, and then when we got to Busch Gardens, we got a funnel cake to split.  It was really good.  Then we rode the cable cars.  Oh yeah, and I forgot to say that I got a free ticket because I had a military ID.  So that was pretty sweet.

    Then we were all going to ride a simulator called Curse of the DarKastle, but ten minutes through the line, and one of my friends and I decided that we didn't want to go on it, so instead we went and got a soft pretzel and rode the Big Bad Wolf.  One of my friends that went on DarKastle said the ride was another hour after we left, and the ride was terrible anyway.  So my friend and I were very glad we didn't go it after all.

    Then, one of my friends and I went on Alpengeist, while my other two friends got snacks and went on the carousel.

    After that, we all went to ride Escape from Pompeii.  That was really fun.  Then we walked down to Italy.  Two of my friends went on a swinging ride that went back and forth (which I think is disgusting), while my other friend and I tried to take a picture of them.

    While we were down there, we went on Roman Rapids and the teacups.  We also did this game where you catapult water balloons across this place to the other team, and try to get them soaked.  My team won while the other team of my other two friends didn't do very well. 

    Then we went on a spinning ride that went around and around in circles so fast that you would slide to the outside edge.  One of my friends and I liked it so much that we stayed there while my other two friends went on Apollo's Chariot.

    By then it was getting kind of dark.  Two of my friends wanted to play in this arcade room kind of  like Chuck E. Cheese where you get tokens, play the games, and try to get tickets, but my other friend and I wanted to go ride the Big Bad Wolf in the dark, so we split up, and planned to meet each other at the entrance of the Big Bad Wolf at 9:05 pm. 

    Well, on my way with my friend, we accidentally took the wrong bridge, and ended up at the opposite corner of the park.  So we asked someone which way to the Big Bad Wolf, and they gave us a short cut, so we made it by 9:15.  We decided not to go on the ride because if they got there while we were on the ride, then they might not know where we were. 

    We waited about thirty more minutes.  By then it was 9:45 and we were getting a little worried because our friends still weren't there.  So we asked a lady if we could borrow her cell phone to call our friend.  She was really nice, and let us use it.  But they didn't answer.  We tried again.  Still no answer.  By then it was five minutes until the park closed, and they still weren't there!  Finally, two minutes before the park closed they came.

    The reason they were so late was because in front of them in line at the arcade to get their prize with the tickets was a family with five people - each having at least 100,000 tickets.  The mom had 500,000 tickets, so she bought a Nintendo DS and an iPod and she still wasn't done!  A whole family with that many tickets! 

    So one of my friends was like to the guy at the counter, "Can we just go really fast?  We only have like 100 tickets, and we're ten minutes late meeting someone.", and the guy just gave them a dirty look like "You just ruined my day!".  Then, when they finally got out of there, they got lost going to the Big Bad Wolf.

    But at least we made it out of there all together.  And it was fun except for about the last thirty minutes.  Then, we were gonna go to the hotel, but the hotel we were staying at said on the map that it was in a totally different place than they really were located at, so we were driving around trying to find it, so we stopped at a restaurant at like 11:30 pm to get some dinner which we never had.  We stayed there until a little past midnight, so when it was midnight, one of my friends was like, "Good morning!".

    Then, we finally found the hotel.  The next morning my friends' friend, Joceline, came to meet us to go to Colonial Williamsburg.  That was really fun.  We did this puzzle thing where we have to figure out what the pictures meant, and fill in the words.  Then we had to follow the clues, made by the pictures, to find our prize.  (It took us a while, but we did it.)

    While we were in this pavilion place, where we were doing the puzzle, part of it said "Go to the street named for Queen Anne's son.", so we're like "Prince George!", becuase there was a street named after him pretty close by.  But then one of my friends said, "Isn't George Mary's son?", and so my other friend said, "No, Jesus is Mary's son.".  And what was funny was that right after she said that, a violinist walked in and started playing What Child is This!

    (We ended up being wrong.  Queen Anne's son was the Duke of Glouchester, and Prince George was Queen Mary's son.)

    We went straight from Williamsburg to my house.  Joceline didn't come on the trip with us.  She left in her car when we left.  On the way to my house with my three friends, we sang practically the whole way home.  It was really fun, just it didn't sound very good because I was higher than everybody else, one of my friends was lower than everybody else, and my other two friends were somewhere in between.

    The next day I had dog camp, where I take Biscuit with me.  It's just for the morning, but it was fun.  I can't remember exactly what we did everyday, but basically here's what we did: agility, presentations (for example, from the vet, search and rescue, someone who brought their dog to a nursing home, someone who rescues dogs), walks, and training.

    Biscuit's favorite thing was agility, but he didn't do it as well on the last day (we only did it on the last day and first day) because he was tired from getting up every morning to go to camp.  I think he's happy that camp is over becuase he got tired after a whole week, but I think he had fun. 

    Well, that's it.  This was really long!  Carrie