Our ten days at Fortescue Bay our quickly filling up with friend and family! Ben and Bec and Mike and Gabi are coming down for a night or two, Ray's Boyfriend's family is coming down for a night, the Morleys' are coming down for a few nights, Loren is gonna come down for a whole six days and Jacqui might even get down for a while! Its gonna be so cool!
Dad's taking the boat and the ski biscuit and the kiachs and the boogie boards and the skin boards! And even better - the weather forcast makes it look like we'er gonna need them all day everyday! 10 days on the beach...thats my kind of holiday! :-)
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all my dedicated Blog readers! I hope 2010 is an awesome year for all of you!
Holiday... phase 2
At the moment I am half way through our two frantic days at home; unpacking and washing and shopping and re packing and stressing out (well, thats what Mum does. The rest of us try to keep out of her way because other wise she starts screaming and yelling - even if we were trying to help!)
Anyway, over the past week of so we have done lots and lots and lots!
On Christmas Eve we went up to Launceston to spend the night with Poppy - Dad's Dad. It was cool - we went out to eat at this food court place in Lony and I ate way too much and then we got ice creams for dessert!
On Christmas morning Mum made us stay in bed till six :-( spoil sport. Chrismas is the one and only day of the year that I think getting out of bed at 5 in the morning is realonable. The twins came into my room at half past five anyway, so we listened to Christmas music on my Ipod until six.
At six me and the twins were wide awake and excited and running around screaming Merry Christmas at Mum and Dad and Poppy. Then we opened pressents!
She didn't want to open presents and she didn't want to have her photo taken.
Eventually Ray decided that seeing as she was awake she might as well open her presents. She opened her one from me first - which BTW she loved. But she wouldn't give me a hug. Everyone else would!
For Christmas I recieved... 
I think the ski biscuit was the coolest pressant any one in my family got this Christmas :-)
Anyway, over the past week of so we have done lots and lots and lots!
On Christmas Eve we went up to Launceston to spend the night with Poppy - Dad's Dad. It was cool - we went out to eat at this food court place in Lony and I ate way too much and then we got ice creams for dessert!
On Christmas morning Mum made us stay in bed till six :-( spoil sport. Chrismas is the one and only day of the year that I think getting out of bed at 5 in the morning is realonable. The twins came into my room at half past five anyway, so we listened to Christmas music on my Ipod until six.
At six me and the twins were wide awake and excited and running around screaming Merry Christmas at Mum and Dad and Poppy. Then we opened pressents!Rachel thought six in the morning was way to early to get up - even on Christmas :-(
She didn't want to open presents and she didn't want to have her photo taken.
Eventually Ray decided that seeing as she was awake she might as well open her presents. She opened her one from me first - which BTW she loved. But she wouldn't give me a hug. Everyone else would!
For Christmas I recieved... From Mum and Dad -
- A beach bag
- An Ipod charger
- A doona cover
- A digital photo frame
My sisters gave me -
- A really cute soft Elmo and a home made lolcats calender (from Ray)
- Jewelery (from Beck)
- A book - Grace by Morris Gleitzman (From Kez - though I guess you worked that out, seeing as she was the only one left! :-)
I gave my family some pretty cool stuff too -
- Ray - a 1000 piece puzzle, a home made Twilight quiz book and a photo of her bf (thats boyfriend, not best friend - though I think its the same thing for her at the moment!)
- Kez - a sand blasted glass plaque (which I made), Snake by Sols commic books (really cheap of Ebay) and a snake calender
- Beck - A sand blasted glass plaque, Garfield commic books and a dolphin calendar
- Mum - An mp3 player and a home made word quiz book thing
- Dad - A ski biscuit (cause I wanted one) and a fire poker I made in the forge at school - its really cool cause it looks like a mega dangerous weapon.
I think the ski biscuit was the coolest pressant any one in my family got this Christmas :-)And I'm really bored after writing those lists; so I won't be at all surprised if you've gone to sleep while reading them - but please wake up now and keep reading!!!
On Christmas Day we drove up to Ansons Bay to spend Christmas with my Mum's family.
Mum's family includes my 95-year-old Grandfather who is doing really really well still! :-)
On Boxing Day we were still at Ansons Bay with Mum's Mum (grandma) and her husband Peter. It was his birthday, so he had a cake. My sisters decorated it while I was out fishing - Ray made the cray fish!
The day after boxing day we were still at Grandmas. Ray came out fishing with me and Dad and Peter and together me and Ray caught 25 squid! 25 squid! all on the one line cause we only had one squid jig.
The squid took forever to clean. :-(
On Christmas Day we drove up to Ansons Bay to spend Christmas with my Mum's family.
Mum's family includes my 95-year-old Grandfather who is doing really really well still! :-)
On Boxing Day we were still at Ansons Bay with Mum's Mum (grandma) and her husband Peter. It was his birthday, so he had a cake. My sisters decorated it while I was out fishing - Ray made the cray fish!
The day after boxing day we were still at Grandmas. Ray came out fishing with me and Dad and Peter and together me and Ray caught 25 squid! 25 squid! all on the one line cause we only had one squid jig.
The squid took forever to clean. :-(We left Ansons Bay and headed to Lake Leake that afternoon.
From Lake Leake we went to fish in the Swan River for a day. We spent around two hours there before we gave up.
It was a perfect day.
Beautiful sunshine.
Beautiful water.
And, eventually, one beautiful, lonely, fish. We oly caught two and we had to throw one back cause it was too small. But the nice weather almost made up for it!
My little sister with her perfect tan and her perfectly flat tummy kiaching at Lake Leake.
Me and the twins enjoying the water at Lake Leake.
And, eventually, one beautiful, lonely, fish. We oly caught two and we had to throw one back cause it was too small. But the nice weather almost made up for it!
My little sister with her perfect tan and her perfectly flat tummy kiaching at Lake Leake.
Me and the twins enjoying the water at Lake Leake. My whole family enjoying the water at Lake Leake!
Those three swimming photos come from three seperate days. The weather at the shack was amazing!
While we were at Lake Leake we also spent a night wih Dad's sister and her family in Davenport! It was really cool cause I hadn't seen them for almost a year!
We spent New Years Eve at Lake Leake too. We stayed up till midnight; dozing, reading, watch ing TV and playing cards. Then at midnight we set of some really cool fire works! Cause it was the last time we could leagally use them :-( It would have been so much more fun with James there, though.
But, all in all, I've had a really good phase two of my holiday. The only thing missing was the Morleys (especially James) and they'll be joining us half way through Holiday: Phase Three!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Wierd Photos
Here are a couple of weird photos we took at Pine Valley.
Vampire Kez. You'll only get that one if you know the Twilight Saga. red eyes, pale skin, even the facial expression!
Walking on water! Isn't that cool!
Vampire Kez. You'll only get that one if you know the Twilight Saga. red eyes, pale skin, even the facial expression!Walking on water! Isn't that cool!
Pine Valley
Holiday phase one complete. We have walked into Pine Valley, climbed the Acropolise (half of us, anyway), explored the Laberanth and returned to civilisation. I'l mix some more details in with the photos.
We took our boat across Lake St Claire so that we didn't have to pay a fortune to use the ferry.
We started our walk at Narcissus Hut (the place we finnished the overland track). Then carried our packs into Pine Valley.
Rachel crossing a log bridge on the way into Pine Valley.
Beck and an echidna on the way into Pine Valley. BTW it is only a three hour walk across flat ground into Pine Valley, nothing difficult.
When we got to Pine Valley all the campsites were taken so we camped on the helipad. it was clean and dry and we all fitted (just). Luckily no helicopters came while we were there!
Beck eating Breaky on the Helipad.
On the second day we climbed the Acropolis; which is a big mountain beside Pine Valley. It was a sleep climb out of pine valley, then we walked across a plateu before another steep climb up the mountain.
This is us with the Acroplis in the background. If you enlarge the image you'll be able to see the writing up the top which shows where each of us go to.
This is on the way up. When we were all still happy and confident.
When we reached a more dificult bit (where Kez stopped), Rachel freaked out. She started wimpering and arguing and saying how she wouldn't go any further. We managed to get her to continue; but after her episode, Keziah wasn't going any where near that track.
We got Rachel nearly to the top. She was all shakey and wouldn't climb through the last easy bolder field to the top. So Dad had to take her back down. That last photo is the highest Ray got.
This is the group that made it to the top! Me, Beck, Mum and Dad. Mum was really proud of herself cause she sais that twelve months ago there's no way she would've got there. She's also pround of herself cause last time my friend Jacqui's mum tryed to climb it she didn't get to the top cause of her knee.
Mum, Beck and Dad at the top of the Acropilis with Jerrion in the background (I was taking the piccy)
Dad helping Mum down of the Acropilis.
The next day we climbed into the Laberith. The Labirith is a plateu of little tarns which look like this;
This is the tarn we ate lunch near.
To get to the Labirith you have to climb out of Pine Valley again. This time a section of the track headed up a stream.
The only problem with the Labireth was the ants. There were these little black ants everywhere and every time you stopped they'd climb all over you and attack you. They didn't sting, just sorta pinched and it didn't hurt exactly, it was just really frustrating. So we ate our lunch in the only ant-free place we could find - a rock in the middle of the waterfall.
After lunch I went swimming in a waterfall. Well, not swimming exactly - more like a shower. I tryed two different bits of the waterfall - that one...
...and this one. Which one do you think lookes nicer???
And here I am back at Narcissus Jettty, right at the end of the whole thing, jumping into Lake St Clair. It was rainy and cold and everyone thought I was a freak - especially the Queenslanders who had just finnished the overland track. But Beck came and joined me. So I'm not the only frek. Except she only jumped in once. I jumped in again and again and again.
We took our boat across Lake St Claire so that we didn't have to pay a fortune to use the ferry.
We started our walk at Narcissus Hut (the place we finnished the overland track). Then carried our packs into Pine Valley.
Rachel crossing a log bridge on the way into Pine Valley.
Beck and an echidna on the way into Pine Valley. BTW it is only a three hour walk across flat ground into Pine Valley, nothing difficult.
When we got to Pine Valley all the campsites were taken so we camped on the helipad. it was clean and dry and we all fitted (just). Luckily no helicopters came while we were there!
Beck eating Breaky on the Helipad.
On the second day we climbed the Acropolis; which is a big mountain beside Pine Valley. It was a sleep climb out of pine valley, then we walked across a plateu before another steep climb up the mountain.
This is us with the Acroplis in the background. If you enlarge the image you'll be able to see the writing up the top which shows where each of us go to.
This is on the way up. When we were all still happy and confident.
When we reached a more dificult bit (where Kez stopped), Rachel freaked out. She started wimpering and arguing and saying how she wouldn't go any further. We managed to get her to continue; but after her episode, Keziah wasn't going any where near that track.
We got Rachel nearly to the top. She was all shakey and wouldn't climb through the last easy bolder field to the top. So Dad had to take her back down. That last photo is the highest Ray got.
This is the group that made it to the top! Me, Beck, Mum and Dad. Mum was really proud of herself cause she sais that twelve months ago there's no way she would've got there. She's also pround of herself cause last time my friend Jacqui's mum tryed to climb it she didn't get to the top cause of her knee.
Mum, Beck and Dad at the top of the Acropilis with Jerrion in the background (I was taking the piccy)
Dad helping Mum down of the Acropilis.
The next day we climbed into the Laberith. The Labirith is a plateu of little tarns which look like this;
This is the tarn we ate lunch near.
To get to the Labirith you have to climb out of Pine Valley again. This time a section of the track headed up a stream.
The only problem with the Labireth was the ants. There were these little black ants everywhere and every time you stopped they'd climb all over you and attack you. They didn't sting, just sorta pinched and it didn't hurt exactly, it was just really frustrating. So we ate our lunch in the only ant-free place we could find - a rock in the middle of the waterfall.
After lunch I went swimming in a waterfall. Well, not swimming exactly - more like a shower. I tryed two different bits of the waterfall - that one...
...and this one. Which one do you think lookes nicer???
And here I am back at Narcissus Jettty, right at the end of the whole thing, jumping into Lake St Clair. It was rainy and cold and everyone thought I was a freak - especially the Queenslanders who had just finnished the overland track. But Beck came and joined me. So I'm not the only frek. Except she only jumped in once. I jumped in again and again and again.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Holidays!
There here again! And they stay for a whole 2 months! Here's an outline of what my holidays are looking like so far;
19 - 22 December
Walking into Pine valley with my family and climbing the surrounding mountains.
23 December
Recovery day at home.
24 Decmber
Spend a night in Lonny with Dad's dad.
25 December
Spend the morning with Dad's dad and the head up to Ansons Bay (Mum's family)
25 - 27 December
Stuck at Ansons Bay with Mum's mum
27 December - 1 January
Lake Leake, hopefully with the Morleys
2 - 3 January
Recovery at home
4 - 15 January
Camping at Fortescue Bay with my family and my friends.
16 - 17 January
Recovery at home
18 - around the 26 January
I'm going to Hayley's church camp.
And then I come home and stay home until the January long weekend, when we will probably be back at the shack.
Very busy, I know, but thats the way i like it!
19 - 22 December
Walking into Pine valley with my family and climbing the surrounding mountains.
23 December
Recovery day at home.
24 Decmber
Spend a night in Lonny with Dad's dad.
25 December
Spend the morning with Dad's dad and the head up to Ansons Bay (Mum's family)
25 - 27 December
Stuck at Ansons Bay with Mum's mum
27 December - 1 January
Lake Leake, hopefully with the Morleys
2 - 3 January
Recovery at home
4 - 15 January
Camping at Fortescue Bay with my family and my friends.
16 - 17 January
Recovery at home
18 - around the 26 January
I'm going to Hayley's church camp.
And then I come home and stay home until the January long weekend, when we will probably be back at the shack.
Very busy, I know, but thats the way i like it!
School's Out!
We finished school today! No more classes, no more teachers, no more homework (not that we got any to start with). But also it means that I won't see my friends as much. Which is the only sad thing.
Anyway, leading up to the end of the year, lots of stuff happens.
Anyway, leading up to the end of the year, lots of stuff happens.
- We stop doing work
- We Have to clean everything up (the art rooms, the woodwork room, our lockers, etc)
- The grade tens have there leavers dinner
- Next years prefects get announced (that'll be me next year)
- We have our awards assembly.
In our junior awards assembly (grades 7 and 8) there are three basic awards - general merit, special merit and excellence. General merit is for people who are well behaved, but nothing more. Special merit is an extension of general merit (so if you get special merit then you don't get general merit too) and excellence means your smart. I got special merit and excellence.
Then there are some special awards. There is the good example award which went to Andy Renalds. There's the citizanship award which went to Loren. Most improved literacy and most improved music both went to grade sevens.
Then theres the really special awards. The best overall junior award (which means that your fairly good at everything, sport included) went to Kelsey. And then the junior most spok award went to...drum roll plz...ME!
Ok, so junior spok wasn't exactly written on the award, but its what they ment. On my trophy (thats right, trophy) it sais 'Junior Outstanding Accademic Achievement' and when Mrs Watts was anouncing it she said it was one of the most prestegious junior awards. It basically means I'm the smartest kid in my grade. And even though I poke fun at it, I'm fairly proud of myself for winning it.
What really dissapoints me is that neither of my parents were impressed by my achievement! Kelsey's parents were really proud and really impressed and really happy that Kelsey did so well. But my parents... no, they're not impressed; no they're not proud of me; no, they don't care that I got awarded smartest kid in my grade. They just give me this look which sais 'good, your not a completely useless lazy idiot' and they kept saying they'd like to see what I could do if I actually tryed. Its really really demotivating when the best in your school isn't good enough. And it makes we wonder weather its worth doing well at all.
But yeah, i got a $50 book voucher and the trophie is the prettiest one I've ever seen.
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