Last day of school; First day of summer

I am so excited that this is the last blog for honors english. I am also glad that today was my last day of school. I did not do much in my classes today. I mainly watch videos and I had one test to take. This is also my last bit of homework for the year. I am so excited for summer. I have a lot of things I have to do and things I want to do for summer. I am just glad I can relax and not have to worry about school. I am really looking forward to sleeping in and staying up late.

Some of my plans for the summer is beating some of my video games, watching TV, reading, and doing other fun stuff. During school I do not have as much time for things I want to do like video games and TV. So in the summer is when I like to do a lot of that stuff. I have a lot of books to read. I have to read the scarlet pimpernel for layton high along with anther book of my choice from the list of authors. Then I want to re read some books and read some newer ones.

I have a lot of fun things planed this summer. I have some camp outs and stuff like that. My first thing is this trip to Washington DC that I leave for tomorrow mourning. Then when I come back I have a family camp out in a couple of weeks. That is fun because I go up camping with some grandparents, aunts, and uncles. We do things like fishing, hiking and this year since we are close to pineview we might go boating. I really like it and I am looking forward to it.

After that I have a scout camp out in July. It is going to be fun. Right now we plan on going down to Zion national park and do a hike through the narrows. Then we are going to stay in a hotel in Saint George. Then we would do a little golfing before going home. My leaders think it may be a little too expensive, in which case we would just go up to bear lake and do some boating and fishing. I hope we still go to Zion national park because I think I would have more fun there.

I plan to have a great summer and I can not wait to do all of my stuff. I think I am most excited for the camping trips. Next to that I think I would like sleeping in the most. I am also glad that I will not get stressed out because of homework or school. I plan to have a lot of fun doing all of my plans. This summer will be a blast and I can not wait to get started. I guess I will have to wait like every school kids in the country to start my summer.

science olympiad

Yesterday I spent over six hours preparing for a trial event for science olympiad. The event is called tip the scale. Personally I think a trial event is not worth an entire Saturday if it does not help our team. I also was not happy that I had to cram it in to one Saturday. I just can not wait to go and get science olympiad over with. I really to don’t care about the trial events I am just going and getting it over with so I can enjoy myself a little. I am glad that I am almost done with all of my homework.

Yesterday I had to build a scale. It is basically it is a wooden structure with an aluminum meter stick, which is the arm, that holds the two trays. It took about five hours to build. It would of have been faster but. we had to keep tweaking the design so the scale would actually work. We had to make our own weights because we can not use weights that were made and equal to a certain weight. We basically had to tape things together to make them equal a certain weight.

It is one thing to build the scale you have to be able to make accurate observation. In the event we will have two minutes to weigh the unknown object. It is not easy to measure with this kind of scale. It takes great practice to use this scale. So tomorrow I have to go and practice using the scale so I am ready for the competition. I hope that tomorrow I will not be there that long. I am also in charge of getting the scale to Washington DC. Hopefully I can just fit it into my suit case.

I am so excited for the trip though. I can not wait for the site seeing. The thing I am waiting to see the most is the Washington monument. In side the pillar there are actually things written on the blocks, like this block was donated by this person. There is also an observation room in the top of the pillar. I also can not wait for the aerospace museum. There are things like actual rockets that they use for space travel that have not been used. There are also the command modules from the Apollo program. Really cool place to go.

I can not wait for the school year to be over. I can not wait to start my summer plans. I have a lot of camping planed. I also have books lined up to read. Some of them are books I am required to read and some that I want to read. I also want to do some fishing and some photography. I hope to do a lot more than I did last summer. Last summer my day consisted of waking up about nine in the morning, watch TV, play video games, do stuff on the computer, eat, and then go to bed.

Summer is almost here

On Friday night I went to Laser Floyd at the Clark planetarium. We had a hard time finding a parking space because of the jazz game. The show did not start until 11:00 at night. The show lasted about an hour so it was getting over at midnight and we still had to drive home. By the time we got home it was almost one. We were stuck in traffic because the jazz game was over at the same time and the road was under construction so there was a big traffic jam. I was just glad to get to bed.

The show was really good it was a show where they would play Pink Floyd songs and show picture on the dome theater and then the had laser that would shine across the room. For the lasers to work there has to be something in the air for light to reflect off of. For that they use a fog machine to make it so the lasers can work. It is not a thick fog but the fog is at the right amount because you can still see clearly but the lasers still work. They play music from the album called dark side of the moon.

That was a fun thing. It is just one more thing that is getting me so excited for summer. But what does that better than year end activities. This week we have falcon finale which is like and awards night for 9th graders. I got to go last year since the orchestra plays during it. It was real fun and I can not wait for it. The teachers announces who wins it, but they talk about the person a little before they announce it so it is fun to try and guess who it is. The activities next week are the best.

This year is exciting because 9th graders get to go to Lagoon. I do not like roller coasters much. That is okay though because I am missing the last two days to go to Washington DC. I am a little upset that I will miss the last day of school when everyone signs year books and then there is the year end assembly. But it is a trip to Washington DC it will be more fun than the last day of school. I am excited to see all of the sites and all of the monuments.

I am so glad that I have very little home work left. I just have some things to finish up for Honors English and a little bit of science. For the most part I am done with math. Which is good because usually takes the longest to do. I am sick of homework which is why I am going to try to finish as fast as possible so I do not have to worry about it no more. I still have one more book I have to read over this week but it should be a quick read. I am glad that summer is almost here.

Things on my mind

I am excited! There is more than one reason. Reason one, I only have 12 days that I will be in school. Reason two, the Jazz beat the Lakers in overtime.

I will only go to school 12 more days and then I am leaving for Washington DC. I am glad that for the rest of the year in math it is just reviews and test which means hardly any homework for me. I was excited to get my picture on Friday. I look like I have my eyes closed, along with half of the other people.

I am so excited that the Jazz have won the last couple games. If they can win the next game in L.A. they can easily win game six which will be played here. The game today was incredible. I missed the first half, but the second half was just filled with action. When the Jazz were ahead by 12 points I was so excited. I was starting to get mad when the lakers were starting to score. I was mad when they tied it up at the last minute and sent the game into overtime. I just can not wait to watch the next game.

I can not wait for summer. There are so many things I want to do over the summer. I have a lot of books on my list to read. I want to read The Chronicles of Narnia, re-read all seven Harry Potters, re-read Eragon and Eldest, finish reading the Artemis Fowl series. Then I want to get outside more this summer. The only thing last summer that really got me outside was summer PE. I think I will just go to the park and play outside. I will probably be spending most of my time inside though.

We are remodeling our kitchen and I can not wait for it to be done because it will look so cool. We have already ripped out the wall. Tomorrow the electrician will come and instal of the electrical work. Then we will sheet rock and then we will paint. Then we will rip out floor and put in the hard wood floor. Then we will be ready to put in the cabinets and counter tops. It will look good once it is done. But right now we do not have a kitchen so it is hard to cook so we eat out and eat at other peoples houses.

There are a lot of things I have to do. I have to finish my math which will probably take a while. Which is why I can not wait for school to be out. When I am in Washington DC I can not wait to see the national monuments and all of the museums and government buildings. I hope the Jazz will go all the way to the NBA finals. I am just so tired of school and I want summer to be here so I can relax and do what I want to do.

My weekend

Yesterday was a big day. We started to rip out our kitchen because we are going to be doing a big remodel project. So we cleaned out all of the cabinets and took more stuff to our storage shed. I am really excited for it. When it is done it will look good and I can not wait. While we are doing it we won’t have a kitchen but it will be worth it. I also bought Mariokart for the Wii yesterday. Then last night we went to the Clark planetarium. We saw a show called rock on demand.

When I bought Mariokart I came home and started playing it, which every one does when they get a new game. It was a little hard at first, but once I got the hang of it I was really good. It is a fun game and I have already unlock a new character and some new tracks. It is a fun game to play with family and friends. I was playing it with my cousins today and it was a blast. They were having a little trouble getting use to it, but they had fun. I can not wait to unlock more stuff.

Last night I went to the Clark planetarium. We were going to see a show called rock on demand. We bought the tickets, but we still had an hour to kill. We went to the food court and ate. Then my dad wanted to go buy a Shaun Alexander jersey, since they were 50% off, at fans. We then went back to the planetarium and looked at some stuff, and I was not there for my term project for Mrs. Cobia’s class. I looked at some things about eclipses. I found out that the moon turns orange and red because of the little light of the sun that reflects through the atmosphere and then hits the moon.

We then went to the dome theater for the show. What you do is that we would vote on songs that we would want them to play. They would then play the song while we watched a little show which went along with the song. I did not know a lot of songs but I knew Back in the USSR, Back in Black, and Another brick in the wall by Pink Floyd. They had these cool lasers that would go along with the song. They also had strobe lights which really hurt my eyes.

I am glad that we only have four weeks left of school. I am glad that I will not have any homework and I can relax. This last week flew by fast and the next weeks will go by even faster. I just hope that I won’t have a lot of homework. I will be glad when the CRT’s are over. I can not wait for the end of school because I will then be on vacation in Washington DC. I am so excited for that trip that the last week will seem to drag.

Springtime then Summertime

I am so glad spring is here. I can not wait to walk to school in shorts. It is still a little cold in the mourning to do that, but we are almost there. I can not wait for school to be out and have an entire summer to relax and play outside. I was glad that I could go outside today and walk around on the grass without any shoes or a jacket. But when spring comes my allergies start acting up. But, other than that I love it when spring comes. When spring comes I start to be more active.

So today I walk around outside without any shoes. It felt good other than that our grass was so dry it felt like I was walking on needles. I can not wait for school to get out. As I am writing this my brother, who is playing Guitar Hero, is playing the song school’s out. I can not wait to be done with school so I can wake up when I want to wake up and I do not have to worry about doing homework or typing this blog. I can then relax and do what I want to do.

Of course one of the bad things about spring is allergies. The past months have been so bad some days have been so bad that I could hardly move and do any thing like last Wednesday I had a fever and I could barely stand, which is why I could not go to school. The next day I was a little better and I could go to school. I had a runny nose and I almost went through a whole box of tissues. I will be glad when my allergies are not acting up any more when it is summer time.

When it is winter time I get less active because I never go outside to play. Instead I stay inside and play on the computer or play video games. In the summer time I like to go outside and play football or ride my bike. I also go camping in the summer time which is fun. I go camping for over night, a week end, or sometimes days. I always enjoy sitting around the fire. I never really enjoy the sleep in the tent but it is worth it. I also like to go to surf and swim to do a little playing in the waves. I like it when it is a Tuesday night and it is just me and a couple of other people because I can do a lot of things and not bump into other people.

I can not wait for summer because we go on a lot of trips. The first week of summer break I will be in Washington DC. We may also go see our friends in California. The thing I am looking forward to is our traditional family camp out. It is when my grand parents get together with us and my aunts and uncles and cousins and we have a camping trip for a couple of days. It is fun because we play games and talk a lot. I can not wait for summer.

Washington DC

I can not wait to go to Washington DC. There are so many things that I want to see and do. We leave on May 30 and we will be there for about six days. It would be nice to stay longer but hotel rooms are real expensive. And it sometimes takes a few days to look at one site. I am sad that we will not be able to see the museum of natural history because it is closed for renovation. I can not wait for the trip it will be so fun. I am sad that I will miss the last two days of school but it is worth it.

There are so many places on my to see list. I want to visit all of the government buildings and all the monuments and other things there are to see. One place I can not wait to see is the aerospace museum. It is cool because they have the command modules of each program. They also have life size models of things off the space shuttle and other things like the lunar module. I also want to go to the Smithsonian. I would also like to see things like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

Then there are all of the monuments and memorials. I can not wait to see the Washington monument. Most people think that it is just a tower but there is a lot of things on the inside and you can take an elevator up to the top and look through the observation windows. Then of course there is the Lincoln memorial that you have to see. Then there are other presidential monuments you have to see like the Jefferson and FDR memorials. Then there is the Holocaust museum that people say is a depressing thing to go and look at.

Washington DC is not what most people think it is. It is a very run down town and there is a lot of crime that goes on there. Most people think that it is a good city because in movies they only show you the good part of town which is where the government buildings and monuments are. When you are there you do not want to go out and walk the streets at night because there are a lot of muggers and it is just a scary place. You are usually safe during the day and then the town is a good place to be, but once it is dark you really want to stay in side. It does not matter to me because it is okay to be out at night if you stay in Virginia.

Washington DC is like New York a little they do have a lot of traffic. They have a Metro train and, I am not sure, but I think it is like the light rails in Salt Lake. This is what we will use and our hotel is only two blocks away from a station. It does go out of Washington DC and into bordering areas, which is why we can stay a little of the way into Virginia because the line we are next to can takes us strait to the monuments and government buildings. It will be a fun trip and I can not wait to go.

Being Sick

Being sick is never a fun thing, but everyone has to go through it at least once in your life. So here I am writing my blog while missing church because I am sick. When your sick it is hard to focus on any work and right now it is hard for me to sit at this computer and type. Of course I have taken some medicine which will help me be able to type this. I am just glad I do not have any math homework this week end. I just want to be able to go to school so I do not have to get caught up.

Being sick is never fun. You can always feel better by taking medicine. I hate taking medicine because I can not swallow a pill so I always take medicine in a liquid form. I have never actually had the will power to take pills. It all started when I was in the first grade and I was forced to take these pills to help me talk. I remember so many nights where my parents fought me to take the pill and to swallow it. I have tried a couple times after that, but I still was not able to swallow it.

The thing I hate most about being sick is if I have to miss school. So people love to be sick and miss school, but I do not like having to ketch up on the work I missed. I have some stories about having to work while I was sick. In 8th grade I had to make my poetry poster while I was sick and it was due the next day. Mrs. Deppe said that she would take none of them after that day even if you were sick on that day. So, I had my mom take it over their and my mom told her about it, and Mrs. Deppe said that she would have accepted it the day after.

I have no math homework but I do have to type an outline for geography because it is due tomorrow and I know Mrs. Van Vleet will not take it late because we are working in partners, and of course I told my partner I would take it home and finish typing it. So I have to do that after this and hopefully that will not take long. If I have to miss school tomorrow then I will have to make up a math test and what ever we do in the rest of my classes.

Of course when you are sick you do not have the ability to do a lot of things. Even eating becomes hard, especially when you are throwing up which I am glad I am not. So for the most part you watch TV or play video games and eat soup and drink gator aid. So far today I have watched about three hours of deadliest catch on the discovery channel. As soon as I finish my home work I will probably eat lunch followed by more TV. Then I will probably go to bed and decide if I will be able to go to school tomorrow.

New things

This week I have new things that I bought. There are also a lot of new things I am going to get. My brother is also planing on getting new things that I will, of course, play with. I started my week with 80 dollars and now I am ending my week with 10 dollars. Of course the 10 dollars is my allowance I got yesterday. It has been a pretty exciting week for me. I also went to the movie theater last night to see a movie. I will tell you more about it a little later on in my blog, but right now I am going to talk about my new stuff.

Well I am sort of a video game lover, but I do do things other than video games. The first thing I bought was another guitar for guitar hero so now me and my brother can play in a co-op band. We can also do things like face offs and battles. I have enjoyed the co-op band because it is a little different than the normal mode. There are four new songs you can unlock and one plays the guitar part while the other plays the bass part. We also have done face off and battles, but my brother became board of them when I was beating him a lot of the time.

I also download some games from older systems to my wii. I bought Super Mario 64 and Pokemon snap, even though I hate pokemon it is a fun photography game. I have played Mario a lot and already have 30 stars. I have even gotten some stars I never could get before. I really like the older games and I enjoy playing them. I have not played Pokemon as much but I have done one course, then my brother want me to play with him. The one bad thing about downloading games is that they take for ever and take even longer if some one is on the computer. It took almost and hour to download one game compared to the 25 minutes it took for the other one. I read some of my book while I was waiting and I read about 40 pages.

Last night I went to see Leather Heads. This is the movie about football with George Clooney and the person who plays Jim in the Office. It was a good movie and I enjoyed it. My brother is excited for this next weekend because a guitar store is going to have a sell and he is going to buy an electric guitar. I can not wait because then I can teach my self how to play it and then teach him if he can’t figure it out. He has been going on about it non stop for the past day. He says when he gets it he wants to learn how to play this song and then this song. I am not trying to discourage him but I know he can not just pick up that guitar and be able to play a certain song. It will take him a while to get to the point where he can play a big song by an actual band. I just love getting new stuff that I am sure all of you like to, too.

State Science Olympiad Competition

Yesterday was the state Science Olympiad competition. It was really fun and I had a good time. Since I was on the C team I did not have to worry about winning. I could just lay back and have fun. The B team won for the 13th year in a row like it always does. At the competition by our home room people were giving out free stuff. I picked up a poster that had all the mission patches on it. But the main purpose they were there was to talk to us about going to their university.

I competed in three events chemistry lab, food science, and boomilever. Chemistry was a little hard to understand and took me awhile to learn a concept. I thought that chemistry lab was kind of easy and that me and Luke, my partner for the event, did pretty well. Then food science was okay. Me and Luke, who was my partner for this event too, had to determine the amount of energy in a cashew. To do this you had to light the cashew on fire with a Bunsen burner and then set it on a plate which had a can of water over it with a thermometer that told us how hot the water was.

The last event I was on was Boomilever. For those who do not know it is kind of like crane but just the top part. To me this was the event I liked the most. We started to practice for this event by just getting a good design and improving it. To tell how good it was you had to test it. To test it you mount it onto the testing structure and then you have a block on the end of the boomilever with a chain on it. On the chain there is a bucket. You then fill the bucked with sand to see how many kilograms it could hold before it breaks. I felt very confident about this event.

After the competition was over and we ate dinner we went to the award ceremony. This is where they announced who won which events and the over all winner. I was so excited because I knew that I could get the silver medal for boomilever. As they were announcing it you never know if you are ahead or if you did not place at all. But sure enough I won the silver medal. Now I have one of each. I have one gold, one silver, and one gold. I also won a 1,500 dollar scholarship to the University of Utah.

After the award ceremony we went back to the school to have our traditional ice cream party. My aunt works at Smith’s dairy factory near Wal-mart. She can always get us ice cream for free or coupons for ice cream. We all got our ice cream and then we talked with each other. After that we went home. I enjoyed going to bed because this competition wears you out.

spring break

So far my spring break has been good. On Friday I stayed home. My friend from California came that night and I talked with him and we played my wii. They left around 8:00 because they were warn out from the drive. Yesterday I woke up early so I could go help people set up an Easter egg hunt. It was fun, I had to help hide the eggs. After it started we all ate breakfast then we let the kids find the eggs and then we cleaned up. After we were done we had to go around the neighborhood to pick up scouting for food bags. We had a lot of bags and a lot of food.

After that I went to get my hair cut, and then went for lunch. We ate at the food court and we were done at about noon. I then went home and watched a movie. The movie was dan in real life. It was pretty good even though I fell asleep in the middle. When the movie was over I finally found my phone that was missing for a couple of weeks, so I plugged it in because its obvious that the phone was dead. After that I helped my parents do some yard work. When we were done we went inside and my mom started to make dinner. My parents had to go to a wedding reception after dinner.

I threw the frisbee with my brother for a little bit. Then we went inside. He played on the computer and I played the wii. After my parents got home we sat out in our hot tub. We sat in it for about an hour and then we got out. Then me and my brother watched tv and then went to bed.

Today my grandma and grandpa are coming to eat dinner with us for Easter. My mom is cooking pork tenderloin. My aunt that is going to college is here for her spring break and she will be eating with us too. One of my older aunts and her family is coming also with their kids. It will be fun because we they can stay later because it is not a school night. We usually talk and watch tv or we play a game. Sometimes we even do both.

Tomorrow we are going to take our friends from California to the megaplex theater to see a movie. After that we are going to take them across the street and show them the rock climbing wall and everything. We might play a game of mini golf and play at the arcade. If I am lucky enough then we might do the surfing simulator. We probably won’t do the skydiving one because it is expensive. Same with the bowling it is not as expensive but would cost a lot . After we might come back to our house so the adults can play some more cards or we will go to different places and play.

High School

Many of you know that both high schools have been to our school to talk to us about our sophomore year. I am going to Layton High School. They gave us a hand out of what class we can take. After all of the required classes and seminary I only have about one year of electives that I can take. I might take some classes online. I will probably just doing the normal eight classes. And finish with the exact amount of credits need at the end of my senior year. I would have liked to graduate early but if you take seminary you can not.

There are many choices of classes you can take even the core classes you have can have different types, Like science there is biology, physics, and chemistry. After the core classes there are a lot of class you can choose from. Not all classes are offered to 10th graders. Some classes you can only take your senior year. You also have to look ahead for college because some colleges require two years of foreign language. Then you have to look beyond that so you know what kind of classes to take that will help you with the job you want.

I already knew what math I was going to take and that was pre-calc honors. I am in Algebra Two and I am doing good in that class. Science was a little tricky. They recommended that I should take a biology class, but the counselor that came to our school said I should take the Physics with Technology. I had a little trouble with english because I was trying to decide if I should take honors or not. One reason was that I did not want to take too many honors classes. Since they split the schedule into two days that I would be able to take honors english.

After I had decided my three core classes I had to decide on other required classes and electives. I had to decide between honors world civs. or regular world civs. I decided to go with the honors course. Then their was the other required classes I had to take, like health, fit for life, and computer tech. Then of course every 10th grader is taking drivers ed. That leaves me with two two year long electives. Of course one of those is filled by seminary. Now I have one year left which I am going to use to take spanish. I am trying to decide if I should move on to course two or if I should retake course one. I am mainly doing this so I can have the two years of foreign language if I go to a college that requires two years.

I can not wait for high school. We can leave school to eat lunch at restaurants. Ths sometimes makes you late for your next class, so you have to go somewhere close. I won’t leave every day, but when I do I know where I could go that would not make me late for my next class. The closest places to go would be across the street to the surf and swim snack shack, or to the arby’s that is just down the street and around the corner. It will be so much fun.

Super Smash Brothers

Today the new super smash brothers game came out. I will not be getting it today though because I am too busy. I will have to wait till tomorrow to get it. I am not worried about them running out of copies because I reserved it in October when it was going to come out in December. Then they pushed it back to February. Then they pushed it back to today. I have been waiting a long time for it to come out. It is kind of like waiting for a movie or a book today. I was a little upset when it was pushed back to today, but I have hardly noticed because I have been so busy with homework and other stuff.

It is suppose to be one of the best games of the year. It has good graphics, and they have loaded it with a bunch of new stuff that the last game did not have. I know a little about the game but they have not reveled very much about it, so it will be surprising to see what is in the game. I like these games because they are fun. I did not like the one for the gamecube as much because it seemed like they added to much at once. The one I thought was the most fun was the one for the n64. I hope that this one will be as fun as the n64 one.

This game has a lot more characters and more stages than the one for the gamecube. Another thing about this game is that it has more than one way to play it. You can use just the remote, or the remote and the nunchuck, you can use the classic paddle, or a gamecube paddle. Then there are different settings for the game. You can play with items or without them. Then there are special modes you can do. There are things like tiny mode where everyone is short. Then there is one where you hardly even it them and they go flying.

The game is pretty much the same as the other ones. It played by the same rules as the other ones, which is why they are so fun. It will take some getting use to, but once you get the hang of it and practice it a lot you can be so good that you can beat a lot of people. Each character has different moves, and most moves have the same button combo it just does something different. Most people will pick a character and will only be them and then they become very good with that one. I try to play with all of them, but there are my characters that I am most comfortable with and very good at being. I have a cousin that is good and we are like rivals. We get so competitive when we play with each other. Most of the time you can not tell who will win until it is over. I just can not wait to get mine tomorrow.

Camp out

This Friday my troop went on a camp out. We stayed at a cabin in Heber valley. Their was a good three feet of snow in the mountains. We left Friday at four o’clock and it took us a hour and half to get their. The drive way down to the cabin does not get plowed and it can not be shoveled because it is gravel. We had to hike our gear in while stepping through the three feet of snow. After we had unpacked all of our stuff and all of the equipment was out of the car we started to cook dinner.

For dinner we ate ribs. They where real good and the sauce was delicious. For desert we had peach cobbler cooked in the Dutch oven. From hiking in we had packed down a path through the snow which we widened to make a hill to sled down on snow boards with. And at the end of the hill we made a jump which took a lot of people time to actually land after going off the jump. It was fun and it made you tired after climbing up the hill a few times after you went down.

Since the cabin has running electricity one of our scout masters brought his Wii and we played Guitar Hero three for most of the night. We had a scout bring another guitar and we had face-offs. We had to rotate so everyone could play. I thought I was pretty good but after seeing them play I looked like I was playing for the first time. They gave some pointers and I hope I will be able to beat them next time. Of course I am not going to tell you some of the secrets I learned.

We switched to ray man after we got tired. It was a game that would make you laugh just by watching it. It was basically just a bunch of mini games. In one you had to kick a bunny through a soccer goal. Another ones we played was one where you used a horn and a bell to guide the bunny in a direction to make hit rakes, electric batteries, and fires. Then on one you had to pound a bunny on the head with a hammer as many times as you could and whoever made the biggest goose egg. Their were a lot of others that were fun, too.

After we woke up and ate breakfast we were able to play some more outside. Around eleven o’clock we had to pack and take every thing up to the cars. After we left we were going to Heber to have lunch. We where going to eat at dairy keen but someone said their was a place called Annie’s that had good milkshakes. When we got their a sign said they were closed for the winter. So we went back to our original plan and ate at dairy keen which is like a dairy queen and Dylan’s combined. It took us another our to get home. It was about three in the afternoon and it was raining.

Food

Food is something we all like. Not only do we want to eat food we want to eat the best food there is. Many people try to travel to top rated restaurants. There are so many out their it is hard to say which one is the best. I watched a show this weekend where they went and looked at restaurants to see which ones had the best burger, pizza, steak, taco, wings, and ribs. Most are family owned restaurants which only have one location, which makes sense because it is hard to control quality when you have more then one chef that would cook differently than another.

One thing about finding the perfect restaurant is a personal preference. One person may like a medium rare hamburger and another person may like a hamburger well done. Different places like to eat the same food but in a different kind of way. Like most of us would prefer a pepperoni pizza and some restaurant in another state would not but any topping like you could get from Pizza Hut and Dominoes. Another thing is the type of food you like to eat. Some people may like to eat a slab of ribs where as another person would rather have a nice big steak.

A thing that makes a restaurant great is its menu. When you go to a restaurant you do not have the ability to pick the type of food you want. Most restaurants serve one style of food, one serves Mexican food another serves Italian food. However most restaurants will have a couple of American food, like chicken fingers, for kids that may not like to eat that type of food. Restaurants usually do this because it is to hard to serve both Italian and Mexican food, it is a lot of money to buy ingredients for both which is why they usually pick one or the other.

It may not be the food that makes people like a restaurant, but its decorations and environment. What makes a restaurant good is the decorations it has. When you go to a restaurant you do not like to be in a plane room even if it is a McDonald’s. when you go to a Chinese restaurant the decorations make you fill like you are in China. When you eat at the rainforest café it makes you fill like you are in the rainforest. A lot of people like certain atmospheres. Some people hate fancy restaurants were you can not even have a conversation. Most people like to eat and have a conversation.

There are many good restaurants. There are those few that are really bad. And those that are really good and you want to eat every meal their. There are many things that make a restaurant great. How great the food is. What the actual restaurant looks like. Of course one thing is the service of the employees. But you can not judge the best because there are so many and a lot are opening for the first time and every one has a different definition of a good restaurant.

why I want my own computer

Lately I have thought that I would like my own computer. Of course right now I do not have the money to buy one. I will probably not be able to afford one until I get a job. Right now a good laptop costs a good thousand dollars. Even when I do get a job I will still have to save money for a couple of months before I could buy one. I have plenty of good reasons to buy one. You do not just go and buy a computer you have to decide what kind of features you want and suits your needs.

First you have to decide if you want a desk top computer or if you want a laptop. Desktop computers are more expensive but can hold more information. When you buy a desktop computer you can mix things around. If you like logitech’s mouses and keyboards but you like acer’s monitor you can make it so you have what you want. You also have to decide if you want a tower computer or if you want a computer that the monitor sits on top of. One disadvantage to a desk top computer is that it is not as portable as a laptop.

Everybody likes laptops if they like things to be portable. With a laptop though every thing is made by the same company. Another disadvantage is you do not have a printer unless you hook it up to one. Besides all that you can do pretty cool things with a laptop. Normally with a laptop you have to plug it into the phone line for the internet. If you have a wireless network you can connect your laptop using a wireless network card. Through that you can send documents from your laptop to your desktop computer to print.

They both have their disadvantage and advantages. If I were to buy a desktop computer it would not be from a normal store like walmart. I would go to a computer place called prime systems. I would want windows vista on it. Then I like to have a wireless mouse and keyboard. I do not care much for speakers I only use them when I play a computer game. Then for a printer you have to go along with something that prints, copies, and scans combined into one.

Then for a laptop I would have to go with an HP because it is a good computer and I really do not like dell of sony computers. Once again I would want windows vista. And if you’re a person like me who hates to use the touch mouse you do something like this. When you use it at home you keep it on a desk and keep it plugged in and you hook up a mouse to it. It is sort of like a desk top computer but you still have the portability. I would also like it to have a wireless card so I could get on the internet. I would have my own if I had the money.

Places I want to see

There are a lot of places I want to go and things I want to see. There is a lot I want to see in the US but if I could see every thing I want to out side of the US there would be a lot more on that list. I will start with the things in the US.

I would like to go to Massachusetts and see boston. I would want to go and see the old north church tower. Another place I want to go to is New York City tp see the statue of liberty and the empire state building. I think a cool place to go would be Florida. You could spend time in Orlando and go to Disney world and then you could see the Kennedy space center. Then you could spend some time in Miami and lay on the beach. I would also enjoy going to Hawaii. It would be cool to play on the beach. I would also like to see Honolulu and other sites on the Islands like the waterfalls.

But by far the best place to go would be Washington DC. This is not a trip that you can cram into three days you have to spend a good week there. There are all the Monuments you can see. Then all the federal buildings, like the white house and capital hill. Then you can see the declaration of independence and the constitution.

There are also places outside of the united states that I want to see. One of them would have to be Paris. Paris is like Washington DC there are all the things like the Eiffel tower that are similar to the monuments. Then there are places like London that I would also like to see. One thing I would like to see in Asia is the great wall of china and Mt. Everest, not actually climb it though. I would also like see the ancient wonders of the world, well even though only one has survived the sands of time ant that is the great pyramid of Gaza.

Then there are places I have been that I wanted to see and I have. I have been to Las Vegas which was fun. I like to stay at Hotels on the strip because each hotel has a little theme like the Paris lobby looks like you are on the streets of Paris and the rooms are decorated like rooms in Paris hotels. I have also been to San Francisco. It’s a cool place there are the skyscrapers, pear 49, and the golden gate bridge. Then just north of it is a red wood forest and they have a cross section of a tree that fell down. They have marked it with a white paint that shows when the earthquake in San Francisco was and things like the world wars, and when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. There are a lot of places I want to see before I die and I probably will not be able to do until I have retired.

Super Bowl Sunday

Today is super bowl Sunday. The New England Patriots will take on the New York Giants. As you can see that I am rooting for the patriots to win. If New England wins they will be the second team in the NFL to have a perfect season and the first team to go 19-0. It is very exciting day and Every one is waiting for the kick off which is just a few moments away. This is one of the biggest sporting events in the America. Ticket prices are so expensive that the cheapest ticket is over 600 dollars.

Lets start with super bowl wins and records. The steelers have most super bowl wins (6). The Vikings, Broncos, and Bills are the teams with the most super bowl losses (4). 26 teams have been to the super bowl. The 49ers have won 5 super bowls and have lost none. The cowboys have been to the most super bowls (7). The only teams to win super bowls back to back are Packers, Dolphins, Steelers, 49ers, Cowboys, Broncos, Patriots. The teams that have never been to a super bowl are the Browns, Texans, Jaguars, Lions, Saints, and Cardinals. Only 17 of the 32 teams have won the super bowl.

They also keep records for just the super bowl game it’s self. The longest field goal is held by Steve Christie who played for Green bay in super bowl 2 (54 yards). Longest run from scrimmage is Marcus Allen who played for the raiders in super bowl 18 (74 yards). The record for longest pass completion is held by Brett Farve ( to Antonio Freeman) was 81 yards in super bowl 31. Steve Young who played for the 49ers has the record of most touchdown passes (6). Reggie White holds the record of most sacks in one game (3).

Now I am going to tell you about some super bowl moments. Joe Namath who was the quarter back for the jets in super bowl 3 said his team would up set the highly favored colts and they beat the colts 16-7. John Elway lost three super bowls than won two back to back. Who could forget super bowl 34's last play the titans are a touchdown a way from wining the game, they are on the one yard line and time is about to expire. They and it off to running back Kevin Dyson who ran it and was tackled inches before the touchdown right as time expired on the clock and the titans lost. It was kind of like the ending to the movie Friday night lights.

Their one thing people look forward to about the super bowl, Commercials. The commercials that play during the super bowl are some of the funniest. I look forward to watching them this year. And with any station you have to pay money to air a commercial. This year it costs 2.7 million dollars for a 30 sec. slot during the super bowl. This year will be a very good game.

Mountains

In science we have been talking about mountains and how they form. For Mrs. Cobias class we had to make a graph to represent the tallest mountains on each continents. And I hade a little puzzle of the world and each continent was a piece and on every piece their was a label of the tallest mountain. This first started my fascination about mountains. There are so many mountains and it is hard to determine the height of all of them. Mountains form in so many ways and all of them are fascinating. Just the statement that a mountain is so massive and how it can not be moved.

All of the tallest mountains on each continent together is called the seven peaks, and yes there is one for antarctica because it is still a continent. Now not all them are determine because it is hard to find the actual continental boundaries and it is hard when two continents are joined by land. Boundaries are usually determined by things like what kind of rocks are in the region. This is true for Europe and Asia because Mt. Elbrus which is in Russia and depending on the boarder it is either in Europe or Asia. If it is in Asia than Mount Blanc is the tallest mountain in Europe. If it is in Europe than it would be the tallest mountain in Europe.

With satellite technology and GPS we have been more accurate in calculating the height of mountains, although there is still a margin of error of about 5 meters. As you all Know mount Everest is the tallest mountain, but you probably do not know what the second tallest mountain is. If you are wondering and can not figure it out it is called K2. K2 is another mountain in the Himalayas but it is in a different region of the Himalayas than mount Everest. Mt Everest is near Nepal and the is by the western part of where the India plate is sliding into the Asian plate. K2 is located near Pakistan and where the north part of the Indian plate is sliding into the Asian plate.

Some people climb Mountains like Mt Everest and K2 for a hobby. K2 is shorter but it is difficult to climb because there is only one side you can climb. Mt Everest is taller but has a couple of more routes you can take. When climbing the mountains the higher you get the less oxygen there is in the air, so you are encouraged to take bottled oxygen when you climb. Some people who like to go down in history actually climb to the top with out bottled oxygen which is a pretty good accomplishment if you do it and do not die. There are also a lot of sicknesses you can get on the mountain that can kill you fast. Like one where your body is not use to the quick change in oxygen level, elevation, and temperature and your brain swells and you get a massive head ache and if you do get it you are basically dead. Their has only been one person to survive it. I would not be brave enough to ever climb a mountain like that.

My week end

This week end I went to Provo. My mom had a conference so I was able to go and stay in the hotel. For the most of the conference I slept in. Then when my mom came home we went to the brick oven to eat lunch. And we went shopping at the university mall, which is huge. After that we went swimming at the hotel pool. Then after that we went back to the room. On Sunday morning we woke up, packed, checked out, and left. The ride home was very long and boring. When we got home we unpacked and then we hade to go have dinner at my grandparents house and we stayed there most of the night.

I am going to tell you about some of the thing in a little more detail. On Saturday we decided to eat lunch at the brick oven. The brick oven is an Italian restaurant that mainly serves pizza but they still have some pasta you can order. Me and my dad split a small pepperoni pizza. It was very delicious and tasted so much better than all of the other pizza places I have ever ate at.. They also have home made root beer. It was so good and you get free refills unlike most places where you have to pay more for another.

After we were done eating we went to the university mall, it was huge. We looked around in a couple of stores. Then we went into the At&t store because we were at the end of our contract and we could get new phones. So we decided to get new phones. It took us a while. My dad does construction and he pick a nokia flip phone. He also bought a Blue tooth head set that he could use at work. My mom got a samsung phone that slides up to reveal the key pad. Me and my brother pick the same phone. It is like my moms but it also has a key board that slides out to the side. They are so cool because they are like a smart phone because It has an organizer and it also has a camera. I has to wait till we got home to open use mine because I left my phone home and it had my sim card in it.

After we had been given our phones we went back to the hotel room where we started to charge them. While we were waiting we went to the pool to swim. I played a game with my brother where we had to try and dunk the other person in the pool. My brother never dunk me once. But we got tiered of it and we just swam across the pool. When we were done we went back to the room and we started to set up our phones. I had to help most of my family because they are not very good at setting up new things, like I had to help my dad set up his blue tooth head set and tell him how you use it. I was sad when we had to go home.

My own little library

In my room I have a shelf and on the shelf I have all the books I have read, books I am going to read, and books I could possibly read in the future. I have about fifteen books on the shelf. I hope when I am older I read as often as I do now and have a whole wall of books. I hope to get more books as I get older. I will get a lot more books when I have a job. But right now I just have fifteen which is still quite big. If I get any more I will have to make more room on my shelves.

In my library I keep books I like that I have read before. Books like Apollo 13, the seventh Harry Potter book, and the Artemis Fowl series. I read Apollo 13 in seventh grade. I first caught interest in the book when I started to like things about space. It was a lot harder to read because it was a ninth grade level book. It was a good book even though some of the words were hard to pronounce. I would have all the Harry Potter books but they are all my mom’s and when the seventh one came out she bought two. The seventh was one the only one I had to finish when I started to read it. I started to read the Artemis Fowl series because a friend recommended it. I started to read them and they were good but I have not finished the series yet. I also have a book that I read in sixth grade that I had to read and it was biography on all the Presidents. I found it in the book orders and told my mom I wanted to get a copy of it.

I also have books I want to read on my shelf. That would include the Artemis Fowl books I have not read and the hunt for the read October. I want to read hunt for the red October because I thought the movie was great and there is that curiosity of comparing the book with the movie. A series I have not finished, that is not on my shelf, is the series of unfortunate events. I think I am on book seven and I sort of stopped because they started to get a little boring. I thought the first three were very good but the fourth and fifth were bad and the sixth was a little better.

I also have books on my shelf that were gifts or books of significant meaning. I have a book on the civil war which is one of those books where you read a page and then you have a choice and what ever you decide takes you to a page and you can read it over and over again and get a different ending every time. I also have a book called dignity which I got from a speaker who gave them out at honor society. I hope that I can continue to add books to my collection.

Things on my mind

One thing on my mind right now are the presidential candidates running to become their party candidates. Right now their has only been two caucuses Iowa, which is a big one, and Wyoming, which is a small one. The caucus is basically to determine who will become the candidate for their party. Hopefully you still remember that from US history. In order to become the candidate for the party you have to win as many caucuses as you can. Then when they are all over the candidate who won got the most delegates, which is a certain number based on how big the population of the state is and which you get for winning the caucus.

Another thing I have been thinking about is the NFL playoffs. This week end was the wild card games. At the end of the season who ever qualified for the play offs would be ranked. The top two teams get what is called a bye which means they have to play one less game then the other four teams that makes the playoffs. Since the wild card games are over the Patriots have to play the Jaguars, the Colts will play the Chargers, the Seahawks have to play the Packers, and the Cowboys will play the Giants.

This week end I have had to work on one of the biggest assignments. It is for teen living and I have to carry a baby around and it will not get over until tomorrow night. Every day I have to keep a log about where the baby was, who it was with and the care needed by the baby. Every day I have to take time out of my schedule to pretend like I am feeding or changing its diaper. Every day in the log I have to have 5 feedings and 5 diaper changes, I also have to have one daily bath. In addition to that I have to write three separate papers on a common Illness of babies, a letter to my baby, and an essay on what I learned. This assignment is worth 1200 points it is the only big assignment and will give you an automatic F in the class if you do not do it. Like right now I had to stop to change a diaper. Then there is Mrs. Cobia who will not let you in her room with the baby and then we have to carry it down to Ms. Powell’s room.

But another class I like is manufacturing. Right now I am making a baseball bat on the Lathe. You basically shave wood off until it has a specific diameter for that part. Sanding it is what takes the longest. You start with a low grit sand paper, which is a very rough sand paper, and you work your way up to a smooth sand paper and that makes it very smooth. When you finish sanding you apply a finishing, that is what makes it look shinny. Then you cut off the parts of the blank that attached it to the lathe. Then you apply the finishing to the parts that did not get it the first time. You can tell I have a lot of things on my mind.