Weekend at the Cottage

This weekend I went to the cottage. The cottage isn't really ours it belongs to my godparents but we go there every summer. The drive there is really long. We had to cross Montreall and laval. Then drive for along time. Then when we get there we need to park and unload our bags and wait for a boat because you can't drive to the cottage. The oat ride took abou ten min. We left my grandma's house at 4:00 and arrived at the cottage at 8:00.

 At the cottage there is no tv so we amuse ourselves through cards and puzzles and games and reading. Outside we have kayaking and swiming. This weekend sucked because it rained a lot but that just means more puzzles and games and cards and reading. This weekend was weird because I did not want to read which is unusual for me. This weekend I learned how to play joker rummy it's a card game. I didn't get to play my own hand because there where too many players but next time I will get to play. 

 When swimming at the cottage we jump off of a dock. The water is deep because we swim in a lake. The water being deep is a good thing because the bottom is probably slimy.This weekend I hade to tread water. I haven't had to in past visits because I wore a life jacket. This weekend I didn't because I've grown more confident and my swimming skills have improved.

Nine people sleep in two bedrooms and a porch. Our whole famalie sleeps in a room with a bunk bed. We sleep with my parents on the bottom and us on the top. When there is more of us someone has to sleep on the couch.

Overall doing puzzles and playing cards was fun. So was playing games. Yet it was seeing the Wyshes that made this weekend a blast.

Dragon Vale

 On this very same ipad that I'm writing this blog post is one of my favorite games, Dragon Vale. In Dragon Vale you get one or two types of dragon to start raising new and exciting dragons as the first ones aren't very exciting. 

In Dragon Vale you have a park that is on a floating island in the air. As you progress you advance in levels and every level you get new and cool stuff wether you like the things or not you get them. I'm going to get a new sort of dragon. 

I've been playing for a while but beginners should remember to check their list of goals as this will help a bit. As you progress you will achieve more islands for placing habitats on as fire dragons will not live in the same place as earth or metal dragons.

The Perch Of Kairos is something you will achieve sometime after you buy your second island. Once you've collected all the pieces of the pieces Kairos will come. When Kairos comes to your park time will speed up in it. 

On my first time playing I missed a lot of chances like clearing up islands and getting gems which are important. Those chances now are gone. How ever I am always looking to expand and get some dragons that ever since I discovered them. I am getting better but the thing that in the beginning helped me the most was breeding dragons. Dragon breeding is risky but it is the best way to obtain free dragons. Food farms are a good starter in feeding dragons but when you have the colocium and the racing track you can sell the farms and make some money. In the colocium or the race track there are certain dragons for certain events. If you have any dragons you cannot keep put them in hibernation cave once you get it.

My time at camp

 I just got back from camp. My camp is a sleep-away camp and I stay there for one week. While there I usually do gimp, gimp is taking three or four pieces of plastic string and weaving them together. This year at camp I played and discussed chess a lot and one of the counselors in cabin 2 (in which there was 2 counselors) made a checkmate in four moves. My cabin was cabin 3, I shared it with 4 other campers and one counselor.  

Wide game is a game that everybody but staff and counselors play. Unless its rainy it's an outdoors game if it is rainy than it's indoors some of the games are blob tag, rainbow tag and capture the flag. My personal favorite out of all the games we played was detective. The way you play detective is you seat everybody who's playing in a circle and pick a detective then when the detective has gone where he cannot see or hear you. Then you pick a murderer. The murderer kills people by winking at them. The detective must find the murderer.

At camp we have a system called the secret buddy system where everybody gets a buddy that they have to give gifts to secretly. Then at the end everybody reveals their secret buddy. I made most of my gifts down by the water where we swim 

Down at camp I have the best time of my life. In our show at the end of the week I played the recorder. That was my fourth year at camp. The camp is in southern-Québec if you wish to lern more or plan on attending the camp next year 

Book Review 001: The Black Lotus: The Samurai Wars

I was lucky enough to receive some advance reader copies of some novel from our local bookstore. In

exchange, I agreed to review the books for them. I have decided to write the reviews on my blog. This way, more people will be able to read them.

I started with "The Block Lotus: The Samurai Wars" by Kieran Fanning. Here is what I thought.

Title: The Black Lotus: The Samurai Wars

Author: Kieran Fanning

Genre: Fantasy

Release Date: September 27th, 2016

Summary:

An evil samurai empire is taking control of the world. The leader of the empire is looking for a sword guarded by a secret group of ninjas. This group of ninjas, called The Black Lotus, is made up of members with special powers recruited from around the world. The story follows three young recruits as they travel back to sixteenth-century Japan to recover the Moon sword when it is stollen.

Was it any good?:

The story was thrilling when the kids storm a sixteenth-century castle to get the moon sword. Each  chapter is from a new perspective from one of the trio of friends. The story got unexciting when damage happened to a country which was being attacked by the empire and I heard about it from three different points of view. I would change the story by having the ninja use more ninjutsu and less technology.

Who would like it?:

People who like fantasy should give this book a try, people who like action even more so. People who like both are in for a treat. 

Overall recommendation:

I give this four out of five fingers.

👆👆👆👆(this system is like stars on a tv show or movie)

Minecraft

 Yesterday I played Minecraft and I made a railroad except that there are no trains just minecarts. The railroad is great espeicially the hidden drop where you go and fall into a pit that goes right through the world. I've also made six rooms in my house, in the hallway. One for wood one for stone one for iron one for gold one for diamond and one for obsidian. Every thing in these rooms is necessary in survival. Wood for a wooden pickaxe and sticks, stone for a stone pickaxe, iron for a iron pickaxe and a iron sword, gold for a gold pickaxe and a gold sword, diamond for a diamond sword, pickaxe, axe and hoe and diamond armor. 

 Yesterday I also built a pen which contained cows inside the research station. I aslo dropped creepers through the world and dyed sheep and killed sheep. I love minecraft so much and I'm supposed to I mean I hope I'm getting the update. In the update I'll be able to get squids and giant spiders by spawning them in creative. In the update I'll be able to have diamond tools in creative ( right now I'm stuck with iron in creative ). I'll also have a boat ( I do not have a boat right now ) which will help me (and my dad ) get to the research station. I can not wait to play Minecraft with the update. Would you be able to wait?

Scooters

Yesterday I tried my scooter for the first time it was great. My mom said to stop if I get going to fast and to look where I'm going. A couple times I nearly fell off but I managed not to fall off or crash. My new scooter is not the kind that runs by its self you have to use manpower to get it to move. The description of the scooter is that the place where you stand has a marvel super heros picture on it and the handles and wheels are red and the brake over the back wheel is black the rest of it is blue. At first I had wrist guards but we took them off because I couldn't grip the handle properly. After we took them off my riding improved especially after I started looking where I was going. This helped me have better balance. It also meant that I could be more careful because I could see when a car was coming. Finally, once I started looking up, I could steer better because I could see to avoid cracks in the road. I enjoyed it more and went a litte faster after we did these things. Being on a scooter is so fun 😄.

Catch

Today I played catch with my dad without a glove in the afternoon and later befor supper I played catch with my mom and sister with gloves. I've got to say that I threw better with my dad but I cought more with my mom and sister. I like playing catch and tomorrow I'd like to play catch tomorrow.

Graphic Novels

Yesterday my mom, grandma and I went to indigo and we bought a graphic novel called Dracula and another one called Frankenstein and a third called The Hound Of Baskerville we also bought to novels called The Battle For Wondlay and The Copernicus Legacy-The Forbidden Stone. The three graphic novels ( Dracula, Frankenstein and The Hound Of Baskerville ) turned out to be exiting tales full of mystery. In Dracula a man comes to help the count move to England where the count buys two houses, in the end Dracula and his three wifes got killed. In frankenstein dr. Frankenstein made a name less montser and in the en they end up dead. In The Hound Of Baskerville all of the Baskerville family die except for the last and youngest of them sir Henry with Sherlock Holmes and Watson in wich Sherlock kills it.

Two things about today

Today I went to the Deragon-Honda dealership with my dad to drop his car off then we walked to giant tiger and Dollerama and I got a new play gun. After that we walked back to the dealership and picked up my dad's car. When we got home I played with my toy Airgun. My Airgun is very gun like well at least the shadow looks like a real gun it came with ten darts with suction cups but the gun fires them to hard for them to stick and I lost two but I only found one. 

After that I went inside and my mom read me Stranded, by Jeff Probst. She read so long my dad had to keep getting her more iced tea ( she read the whole thing to me at one sitting ) I only had a cup of lemonade. Stranded is about four kids that get stranded ( by getting shipwrecked ) on a coral reef after a storm, now I'm not going to give away any more of the story. I liked the book and found that it was exiting though the end was a little disappointing because all three books are one story and I'm going to get my mom to read them all to me.

Yesterday afternoon

Yesterday in the afternoon I went out to play frissby with my mom and my sister Michala, Then we went down to the river and threw three stones each besides my mom who threw zero. We found deer tracks on the road one evan had the clove of the hoof ( see picture ). We went inside and did what we wanted. I read The River by Gary Paulsen and played by my self ( I don't know what my mom and Michala did. I played with my Lego ( I have tons of it ) and finally I went down stairs and took out the compost, washed my handes and sat down for dinner. After dinner I read The River and then played two games of cribbage with my mom. I went to sleep and that's all I remember for that night but I will get back to you on the next blog.

Snails and Slugs

Today I saw a large container of water and I used a stick to put slugs and snails in it. It was fascinating, all the snails started to move imidiatly but the slugs took a little while to get used to their surroundings before they moved. Some snails and a slug climed up the walls of the tub of water. I Iooked and notised that the snails(to move)kind of flattened their foot and slowly moved, the slugs however kind of stretch out and moved somewhat quickly. Snails and slugs breath through airbubbles stuck on their slimy bodies. When I touched the slug it was slimy,the water was cold. Slugs and snails curl up when you touch them. The whole bunch of snails and slugs I got where hard to get because they hide in the grass.

Skylanders battlegrounds

Skylanders Battlegrounds is a game where you move around and fight a lot of monsters. There are 4 bosses. The first boss is Arbour Eater. He is basically a walking tree. He can build a fence around himself to heal. He has these mignons that keep you occupied while he's in his fence they'r really anoing. The second boss is Mega Chompulin he is basically a Chompy with a super powerful robot/suit. The armes of the robot/suit are canons that fire Chompys. The third boss is crazy Mage  a wizard his power is a magic staff. The fourth boss is the crazed king he has blades on his hands. Skylanders Battle grounds rocks.

 Skylanders Battlegrounds is a good game for people that like using strategy and choosing characters for battle. The characters have strong abilities you need to compare them to find the best ones. Terafin is the best I have by far followed up closely by wash buckler. People who like clash of clans and boom beach and sky landers should play this. The skilles that you need to be good at this are figering out when to and when not to fight. Don't do battles you don't think you can win unless necessary by timing of movment another skill and the last skill is using your gems properly on people, don't go wild. In a star rating I'd give it four out of five because you have to be careful and its boring when your not in battle.

My Favourite Game App

This is a shot from the Skylanders Battlegrounds iPad app. It is a battle. The guy with the blindfold and the bow and flaming arrows is Flameslinger. The guy that looks like a mushroom with arms, legs, one eye, a mouth, claws and a slingshot is Shroomboom. 

You move your Skylander around by putting your finger on the hexagon where your Skylander is stationed and move it to another hexagon but you can not move onto or through hexagons with rocks on them. The quickest way to get gems to buy new Skylanders is to finish levels. There are four sets of levels. Each of the levels have bad guys you need to battle. Each of the bad guys is controlled by a different super hard guy. Their names are Arbour Eater, Mega Chompolin, Chompy Mage and King Brock. When you battle you do not need to tap the boxes at the bottom of the screen ,those are super powers, your Skylander will do a normal attack by its self.  In a battle you move the same way as described above.

Sports this year, 2014

I joined cross country running this year. During Cross Country I waited and waited and waited for the other teams to finish. The teams that were in front of me were k1 and k3 on the shorter track I was on team k2 and I was on the longer track with k4. My track was simple I had to go straight, right, straight, right, straight, over a bridge, left on an angle, over a very large hill, right on an angle, right, left on an angle and straight going the same way as the very first straight to the finish. I started last but by the third straight I had passed some people who thought they could get away with sprinting right from the start. I wasn't able to pass anyone on the bridge because it was so small. A lot of people slowed down to a walk going up the hill and I am proud not to be able to count myself amongst them so I passed some more people at the end I came 41st.

I played soccer this year I didn't play soccer last year because I did not want to. These are the teams I played  this year in order: Heroes', Farnem, Heroes', Heroes', Parkview, Parkview, Parkview and Knowlton Academy. I thought Knowlton was the hardest. I didn't get to play as much as I wanted. I stayed off for one whole game.

This was me running a relay at the track and field meet last June

Cousins in kindergarten

My little cousin is going to kindergarten this fall. He is going to ride the school bus but is going to daycare in the afternoon. My advice to him is to avoid the back of the bus and try to get a window seat or a friend. He should know that there is little work but it is easy work. You should try to say hi to other kids, the principle, the secretary and the janitor. They are all usually nice. When I went to kindergarten I liked it. My favorite part was playing. I think that you will like recess and play time the best. I hope my cousin will have a happy year.

Game Time today

Today I played two games one was called Battle Call the other was called Chutes And Ladders. I made up Battle Call. Instructions
Take a pack of cards (preferably star wars or super hero cards) but you should only have 50 cards with the joker. The goal of the game is to use up as many decks of cards as you want and to put down your strongest card

Berrys

I went berry picking yesterday. I got a thorn in my hand. It hurt a lot. While blackberrying you should remember that it will hurt but it is worth it. I screamed a lot but I stopped and realized that I could sill have fun even though it hurt.

My mom made jammy jelly out of the Blackberrys. It is really yummy. I had a bath it helped my scraps. It was a nice bath. I heard our jammy jelly pop.

My Grandmas house

I just read a book. It's tittle is Bailey City Monsters. There are some Halloween words like bloodred and monster.
My grandmas house has lots of trees flowers and bushes. I like being at my grandmas house because I like to clime trees and there are a lot of trees and a lot of trees makes it esey to clime trees. I also like read here. Playing is one of my favorite things here. I for my last thing to tell you I will tell you that I like to look at the frogs.

Barbra Reid

I met an author. Her name is Barbra Reid. She wrote Subway Mouse, Picture a Tree, Read Me a Book, and Gifts. Her pictures are made of photographed plasticine . The last time I saw her it was a Barbra Reid workshop. I made a Venus flytrap out of plasticine. I made it in a cd case and saw some school friends. I will take a picture of my Venus flytrap and e-mail it to her.

Last Days

I had my last soccer and swimming practice. I am happy that soccer is over because I am not tired on Thursday and Tuesday nights.

Swimming is fun. I will do it next summer. I hope that we will go to the beach today or tomorrow. Sophie is a bit strict but she is mostly fun. Yesterday we played all swimming class. We played Marco Polo, freeze tag and tag. We climbed down a pole. I went deep into the the pool.