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Hi!
I meant to post about this earlier but I forgot.
You know my profile picture? That's of me in my Oregon Children's Theater (if you click on that it will lead you to their website) Acting Summer Camp production of "Alice in Wonderland". It was adapted so that a large group could put it on so there were multiple Alice's. I was Alice number one! We didn't have costumes so we had to wear our camp shirt, jeans, and if you had them converse or regular shoes. I had to wear a blue bow with the other Alice's.
That's about all!
Bye!
Emma

Happy Birthday Kira!!

Have a happy, happy birthday Kira!
-Emma (Shenandoah would say happy birthday to!)

Back to school..

School already?!? The weather sure seems like fall though...

Orcas Island: The best place on Earth!!!

During the last two weeks of summer I went to Orcas Island. It is a awesome island in the San Juans. (those are of the coast of Anacortez in Washington.) It seems like you drive forever, but its worth it. I went with The Cox's: Emma, Ellie, and Charlotte, Ms. Erika and Mr. Ryan. My mom and dad and my sister.
Me swimming in the ocean
The Emma's and the Ellie's
Bouys
The pod of transient orcas.
The kids
My favorite sunset photo
Next door.
Our veiw from the fire pit.
We were on the Elwha on the way there
Crab and eel hunting
What a ferry looks like from the distance.
Me, Ellie and Ellie eating a jellyfish we found- YUM!
The beach
BeAuTiFuL!
Kids on the ferry- again no Charlotte :(
Friday harbor Ferry stop.

Charlotte driving us with her feet.
The kids minus Charlotte whale watching.

Go Green Tip of the Day

Your go green tip of the day is.....

• Ride your bike to the store, or to a friend that lives close house.
  

Vacation Pictures

The Animal Kingdom tree.
Asia, My favorite country at Animal Kingdom.
The Olympians at the Olympics.
Us after the game- Cubs lost. :(
Our Rally Caps
Crystal Lake
The tilt-a-whirl thing I got sick on


My Uncle Doug, My Sister and I at Saugatuck and The Saugatuck sign at night.

Summer Break!

Summer is finally here!
Every five years my dad gets his sabbatical, which is like a 6ish weeks off from work. We have been waiting and saving money for this one since FOREVER and it has finally passed. We took a 3 and a half week long vacation to Chicago, Orlando, the Keys, and Spring field (IL)
Here was our plan of action:
Oregon -PLANE--> Chicago ---> Crystal Lake ---> Chicago ---> Springfield ---> Orlando ---> The Keys ---> Springfield ---> Chicago -PLANE--> Oregon
We first stopped and my Uncle's house in
Us at the Cubs game. My family's in the front to rows in the picture.
Chicago...
We:

• Drove to Saugatuck, a lakeside town in Michigan.
  
• We went to Navy Pier. I rode the Ferris wheel and got sick on one of those rides with you in a swing that spin you really fast around and around.
• Spent a day in the city.
  

• Threw a surprise party for my Uncle John.

Then we drove to My grandparents (my dad's mom and dad) In crystal Lake...

• Played billions of ultimate Frisbee and soccer games with my cousins, Kaitlyn, Sam, his friend Michael and Abigail.
• Played games like a Spinners, Dutch Blitz, and Catch Fraze.
• Me and Ellie went to a ceramic painting place with my Nana, Kaitlyn and Abby (Abigail) AWESOME!
  
• Went to the Crystal Lake to swim
• Made crafts (thank you Nana and Grandpa! xoxo)

Drove back to Chicago...

• Logan (cousin), Hayden (cousin), Grandma, Grandpa, My mom's Aunt who everyone calls Tata, My Uncles, Doug, John, and David and My Aunt Traci were there aside from our family (everyone but Tata stayed the night.)
• With our cousins we filmed like 3 movies.
• Watched a cubs game at Wrigley Field
• Slept with the cousins in the basement!

Drove everyone to Springfield (in 2 cars)...

• Went to Knights Action Park (a water park) with Logan (cousin), Hayden (cousin), My Uncles, Doug, John, and David and My Aunt Traci plus our family.
• Watched 2 movies:Toy story 3 and Avatar the Last Airbender.
• Had our annual Olympics on the 4th of July.
• My cousin Hayden broke his toe. :(

Drove for two days to Orlando...
Disney world:

• Spent a day at Animal Kingdom, I got sick on The Mt Everest ride, that's when I realized have motion sickness. My favorite thing we did/saw was the Celebration of the Lion King.
• We also later on went to Down Town Disney to get some presents for people.

Universal Studios:
CONTAINS HARRY POTTER SPOILERS!
I was looking forward to this part of the trip SO much. HARRY POTTER WORLD!! Some people might classify me as a Harry Potter nerd, but that's okay. I did everything you could do except the Dueling Dragons, because it corkscrewed, and you'll find out what else later.

• The one bad thing was that they mixed Hogsmead with Diagon Alley. Everything else was pretty good. Oh and some dead people were alive in on ride.
• They had: 3 rides; Dueling Dragons, Flight of the Hippogriff, and The Forbidden Journey. A frog choir, 4 shops you could go into; Dervish and Bangs, Olivanders, Honeydukes, and Zonkos/Weasly's Wizard Wheezes. The coolest line ever that went through the castle, you saw movie props, talking portraits, the Fat Lady, Harry, Ron and Hermione were going to smuggle you to the quidditch pitch.... Much more.
• We went to breakfast at the 3 Broomsticks
• I got motion sick on the Forbidden Journey because it was that virtual reality thing and I went back to the hotel room for the rest of the day. Good thing we had 3 days there!
  
• I had pumpkin juice, butterbeer, frozen butterbeer, a chocolate frog, peppermint imps and more.

Drove to the Keys (we stayed in Key west)...

• Went snorkeling and saw beautiful fish, purple, lime green, and bright orange coral, a barracuda, and a nurse shark.
• My Dad, Ellie, and I swam with the dolphins! We swam with two dolphins, Elvis and Nica. They gave us kisses, dorsal tows, the super man (they pushed on the back of our feet to send us soaring across the water) and at the end gave us each a "present". my dad got some algae I got a strand of sea weed and Ellie got the biggest present given all week; a huge whole under water plant. Ellie's and mine were made into bookmarks.
• We were always swimming. We would swim in the ocean or the hotel pool.

Drove back to Springfield...
We had two days there in which we spent swimming in a pool we like near there.
Drove back to Chicago, and the next day we flew home to Oregon.
What did you think about our trip? Please post a comment.

Schools Out!

Schools out and it means:
1. My friend Lauren goes to highschool!
2. Time to play out side!
3. Vacation!

Oregon

Well most of the people who follow my blog live in Oregon so I was wondering if anyone had noticed it was MAY not February. With this weather were getting it's hard to tell. What's your opinion?
Post it.

Websites of note

My websites of note:
www.dosomething.org
http://jointheflock.maximumride.com/experiment/index.html
http://www.volleyitup.blogspot.com/
Do you have a website of note?
Comment and tell me about it!

Compostable Sun Chip Bag!/Go Green Tip of the Day

Look at my sun chip bag! It's in the compost!That's because its a compostable bag.
So today's go green tip of the day is to start a compost pile in your back yard. Then toss all your food scrapes and things in and WA LA! After a couple of week you've got good healthy dirt!

Cupcakes

This is what I've been doing!! Messing around with fondant on cupcakes. This on is my favorite that I did.

HA!

Heh, heh, heh! I am cracking up! First I blog about Maximum Ride, then about Peter Pan. Wings, wings and more wings!

Thoughts

Thinking about Peter Pan makes me think about acting, and acting makes me think about writing, and writing reminds me that I wanted to start writing more on my blog, and writing on my blog reminds me that I wanted to write a story about my blog, and blogging a story reminds me of my blogger friend emilydownz1, and emilydownz1 reminds me of Peter Pan again, and Peter pan reminds me of my weekend, and my weekend reminds me of my trip to the nature park, and my trip to the nature park reminds me of how tired I am. YAWN.....

Acting

Recognize peter pan? over the weekend at Southridge High school I saw Peter Pan the musical. It was amazing! The cast was actually flying! I would recommend it to you but that was the last show. And that reminds me that I need to look at acting programs...
bye!

Olympics here I come!

My first time cross country skiing. I loved it!
I know this looks kind of fake, but it's not! Here is another picture to prove it!

Fang

Sniff sniff. I just finished Fang. No more Maximum Ride books to read. Kind of sad.
Oops! Can't say any more with out letting plot slip!
Comment about the book, if you have read it.

Out door school

Hi, hi!
I am back from outdoor school, and I promised to post about it, so here it goes:
First day: (after bus ride)
1. Outdoors survival skills. I learned how to build sturdy shelters
2. Lunch (the camp food was actually good!)
3. Games; we played statue
4. Bike ride (this was our science class!) We took observations on the animals we saw
5. Art; we did this scratch board thingy and I made a raccoon and a river otter paw print
6. Dinner (again actually good!)
7. Reflection of the day
8. To our cabins for "quiet time" NOT QUIET!!!!!!!!!!
The boys kept knocking on our doors and running away, and whenever they knocked the girly girls screamed.
They got in HUGE TROUBLE!
9. Finally bed at like 10:45
Second day:
1. Breakfast at 8:00
2. Writing; things about nature
3. Humanities; service work cleaning up the forest
4. Lunch
5. Rock climbing on a tiny wall
6. Challenge course
7. Working and making up a skit.
8. Dinner
9. Bonfire and skits; my cabin skit was actually the best!
10. "Bed" at 9:30 going to sleep at 11:00!
Third day:
1. wake up
2. pack
3. breakfast
4. clean, clean, clean
5. reflection
6. leave on buses at 10:30
7. Lunch at school
8. Out of school 20 minutes early!
Boy that was brief, wasn't it!

So excited!

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!
tomorrow I am going to outdoor school! Awesome right!
Will post about it when I get back!

COFFEE

Hi, hi!
It is Tuesday, and I have a song I learned from Emilydownz1:

C. O. F. F. E. E.

Coffee is not for me

It's a drink some people wake up with

That it makes them nervous is no myth

Slaves to a coffee cup, they can't give coffee up!


Comment if you like it!!!!!!!!
I will report to Emily how many people like it.