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Strange to be Home
We were in the airport and we were looking for uncle Jason he said he would be holding up a banner in the airport and we’d have to look out for it we told him that we’d be waving a little Mexican flags and that he would see them and you would shout Dickinson . The…
We are Home
we got back from my granny’s house a week ago and mum has unpacked so many things from our house that I remember, such as *my bed *my teddys I’ve moved bedrooms and my new one is much bigger and better. My dad moved my bed upstairs and I haven’t slept in it for…
Coming home
I have to say I’m very excited for coming home to see friends and family but Mexico is amazing and so all the countries we’ve been to and I’m actually looking forward to coming back!!! All the countries we have been to My favourite countries we have been to Stops in between countries Reflections on…
Mexico City
Your Kids will not want to leave this museum. We were on a bus to a museum that we really knew anything about. We bought ice cream and tickets , we entered and oh my gosh!!! There were slides everywhere and little activities to do. The first thing we did was the Lego. We…
Mexico – Jaguar Zoo
Today we went to the zoo. Dad had searched up a review and it was definately worth it!! We walked in and bought tickets and the first thing we saw was the African animals. There was an ostrich, some zebra and a lama. We went in by car and we got to feed them!! The…
Mexico – What lovely Horses
Helping to feed and muck out the horses We are at the ranch and we have learnt so much already. Every morning we go on a ride and learn something new. After we brush them and feed them and put them away, it was such fun! The cook Gina prepared some amazing food. One day…
Mexico – Oaxaca – the Gueleguetza
Oh my gosh that was sooo amazing! Today we were in the car and we arrived at this place but I had no idea where we were going . So we took a taxi to a field and walked up a hill. Then suddenly someone started talking into a microphone and in came lots of…
Mexico – Oaxaca – Faces in the widest tree
The Tula tree Yesterday we went to see the fattest tree in Mexico, It was 11 metres wide.!!! We payed 10 pesos per person to go in and then our driver gave us a guide aged 9 years. He was tiny, he had a little mirror, and he shined it in the light, at a…
Mexico – Oaxaca – the two lovely sisters
My Gorgeous sister We have arrived in Oaxaca and we have an awesome swimming pool. We go in it every day. In San Cristobal I got my right ear pierced again, because it closed up – it got infected and looked gross but now it’s fine! In San Cristobal on the ranch there were 2…
Mexico – San Cristobal de las Casas – Back at the Ranch
Laura leads me and Cheyanne Round the paddock We went back to ranch Evergreen but this time for a weekend. On the first day we played with the puppies for a long time and then rode a beautiful horse bare-back with Cheyanne and we steered on our own. Then Cheyanne got off and Xoe got…
Mexico. San Cristobal Please can we keep one Mummy please!?
Can we keep one please mummy! We were driving in the car for ages, until we came to Evergreen Ranch. Oh MY gosh it was amazing and there was so much space. They had 14 puppies!! Some of them were cute chihuahuas and the other 7 were a cross between German Shepherd and a local…
Mexico – San Cristobal – A Dance Class in the Air!
I’m doing this dance class on materials it’s so fun!!! We went to a beautiful village where all the men wore beautiful embroidered tunics and the women wore very fluffy sheepskin skirts . In the centre here was a beautiful church. Me, Gabriel and Millie went in with Mum and Dad but then the Man…
Mexico – San Cristobal- Our Ginormous Garden
We have arrived here in San Cristobal and it’s a lovely town with colours everywhere. Our house is sooooo small and it only has 2 bedrooms and a kitchen . It also has a ginormous garden with 3 dogs. One of the dogs’ names is GInger and she’s a soppy dog that doesn’t do anything. However she…
Mexico Tulum – Mouths Wide open
Turtles swimming in the cenote We just flew in to Mexico from Miami. In Miami I saw the fattest man ever. He was just sooooo fat, his arms, his legs, everything. Anyway we arrived in the airport in Cancun which was so touristy that we had to drive to Tulum straight away! We arrived hot…
Mexico – San Cristobal De las Casas – It poured and poured and poured
Emma and bri were our friends in san cristobal We met these really good friends. The two girls were called Emma and Bri. Emma was 8 years older than Gabriel.Bri had a little brother called Peter who was 2. They came to Spanish school with us. Every now and again, they came to our house…
Ecuador- our amazing adventure
How Squirrels and Capuchin Monkeys work together. This blog will tell you about how capuchin and squirrel monkeys work together. When two or more species live together and help each other, this is called symbiosis. Capuchin monkeys are heavier, so when they jump from tree to tree the branches shake and the insects fly off…
Ecuador – Ants that taste like lemons
In the jungle we had our own cabin and our own beds The food was amazing and almost every day we went on a canoe and spotted everything we could. Our guide was called Diego and he was really kind. We saw Scarlett Macaws and blue and yellow Macaws and chestnut-fronted Macaws. We also saw…
Ecuador – Vilcabamba – Walk trot canter and gallop
So now I am in Vilcabamba.. We went horseriding and it was so much fun because we started out walking and then our guide got us to trot and then walk after maybe 15 minutes we did an awesome! canter and then five minutes later we did an extraordinary gallop! We stayed in a lovely…
Ecuador – Quito- the water really does go the other way down the sink at the Equator.
Pampellacta was a wonderful place. The best thing was the hot steaming thermal pools! They had natural water from underground in our hotel. There were four pools. 1/ the perfect temperature2/ a bit hotter, 3/ BOILING and 4/ freezing as a a cool off for the boiling one. One day we were there we went on…
What is the first animal that comes into your head when you think of the sea?
The other day we set off on our tour and I sat in the back of a truck. We arrived at the reception and went to try on a snorkel and flippers, then we hopped back in and arrived next to a boat. 45 minutes later we were surrounded by rocks. We jumped off the boat…
Boobies
This blog will give you facts about the following animals. Blue footed Boobies Sometimes babies feed in the group. Usually they fly far out to sea looking for their prey Anchovies. During the mating during season the males show off, strutting around with their fancy blue feet. Females tend to choose the males with the…
Ecuador- Darwin’s theory of evolution.
No two creatures are exactly the same. Let’s say, if you had any brothers and sisters, just look at them for a minute and compare them. Is one nicer than the other? Is one a bigger shape ? Do their ears look the same? Are some smarter? The more you look, the more differences you…
Ecuador -Cuenca – Cartoons and Dragons
My time in Cuenca Now I am in Cuenca which is a big city in Ecuador. At the moment it is really rainy. It’s my birthday in 14 days from the 20th, it’s on the 2nd April. ! I hope it’s not raining.!!!! We’re also doing Spanish school at 8.30 am, so I have to do reading. When I…
Ecuador – Otavalo – one little piggy went to the market followed by three little children
I kind of started on my tooth blog where my tooth got pulled out. It was on that day when we moved to Otavalo, it was 2 hours on a bus. We got to our hotel when Omero the puppy came rushing up to us and literally tipped Gabriel over and started licking him from…
Ecuador – The differences between New Zealand and Ecuador
trying on Rasta wigs Well for a starter the mountains in NZ are a very different shape and size and also we have been in Ecuador now for three weeks and we haven’t swum in any of the rivers and in the first two days in NZ we were swimming in dozens and dozens of rivers!!!! Another…
Ecuador – An Unlucky Day
Ecuador – Quito Well today I had a really unlucky day because you see I have had a sore tooth for about a month on end which is really unfortunate. So mum told Dad to take me to the dentist and after to cut my hair, so we arrived at the dentist and sat down…
Ecuador Vivarium
Quito Today we went to a vivarium where there are all kinds of reptiles (including snakes). Mum hates snakes… Mum absolutely hates snakes, she says it’s the way they move in a slithery snake-ish way and also the way they poke their tongue out at you and hiss in a sly way! So she didn’t…
NZ – Little round doors
Today we went to Hobbiton! We arrived at the check out place with the family and Grandy and Grey. ( Zeb Loma and Thalia’s grandparents) – after we had paid we hopped into a bus and the driver talked and talked and talked and talked about very, very, very boring stuff and he said about…
NZ – going to the Zoo
We are going to the zoo! Hilary is Zeb and Loma and Thalia’s au pair and she is looking after us while mummy and daddy are away. We arrived in the gates seeing all of those photos on the wall of other people’s experiences. There I was jolly excited and I think you could tell!…
New Zealand -Te papa
On Friday January 30th I went to Te Papa, the T- Rex exhibit with Mum, Zeb, Dad, and Gabriel. We walked in and we saw the giant orc from Lord of the Rings. He was really big and he had had sword for a hand. We followed the dinosaur footsteps and ended up in a…
New Zealand – Fox Glacier
For those of you who don’t know what a glacier is it’s a big moving river of ice and this one moves 50-60 cms per day and 2.5cm per hr. We took a helicopter and flew over the glacier and landed at the top! It was spectacular we could see mountains and sea for as…
New Zealand – No Laughing or Smiling
the haka dance We hopped off the bus and arrived in the Maori village. Our bus driver told us who our chief was and we went to the front. There were three buses so three Chiefs. Our chiefs’ name was Morris. Cairo our bus driver told us “no smiling, laughing, or don’t poke your tongues out,…
New Zealand – puzzles and rocks
We went to Wanaka and we were staying in Heather’s aunt’s house (her name was Joss) which had an awesome trampoline. One day we went rock climbing with Heather, Toby, Zebedee, Loma, Thalia, Biddy, Fox and Otis. Biddy put a harness on and clipped herself to Heather and climbed the rock until she got to…
New Zealand – Mount Maunganui
We arrived in Mount Maunganui, meeting Heather and Toby and their kids, Zeb, Loma and Thalia. We were also surprised to see other people there – I met a girl called Fox, she was a couple of months younger than me and really fun to play with. This house was rented and not actually Toby…
Australia – New Zealand
We don’t have any photos because our camera has broken down A different Sort of Christmas I have arrived in Australia and we are meeting my friends the Axioms: Alex; Barry; Emily; James; Harry and Finn. We only spent one day in Australia and we went to the beach and had lots and lots of fun!…
Cambodia – Rockclimbing and playing pool
I’m in Kampot which is in southern Cambodia. Kampot is very famous for pepper and they do very very good Pepper. We went to a pepper farm and we saw all the peppercorns growing on the vines. The peppercorns were very wrinkly green balls. The vines were growing up brick towers and there were rows…
Cambodia- Swimming pools and boring temples!
Now I’m in Cambodia, in Siem Reap. We stayed in a place called Golden Banana, which was totally heaven. There was a swimming pool and the staff were really nice to us. We met Shunmay (Millie’s godmother) – when we came back from an outing for lunch it was a surprise to see her sitting…
Laos – Sick, sick, sick!
Right now I’m in Luang Prabang, which is very beautiful but the downside was that I was sick for all the time we were there. I was in bed for three days so there’s not much to talk about 😰😴 In Luang Prabang there was a beautiful night market that was very close to where…
Laos – Vang Vieng awesomeness!
In Vang Vieng (Laos) we went to a place called the Blue Lagoon which is a natural pool, a turquoise blue colour, with branches of trees that you could jump off into it and a swing that you could swing out on, let go and land in the water. I jumped off the high branch…
Nepal – Goodbye lovely friends
Pokhara was really fun and we did lots of interesting things, like walking up to the Stupa. We took a rowing boat over to an island and we started walking up to a Buddhist Stupa. When we got to the top, we stayed and played and messed around on the grass. Gabriel had an idea…
Mind blowing mountains
We arrived in the mountains wearing very warm clothes and all huddling up to each other during the night. We arrived in Gatlang, the first village where we met three German girls. Women were wearing dresses with a tough like carpet hanging down the back and there were children running around with no clothes on.…
Arrival in Nepal
We arrived in Nepal with Greetings from Karma who was going to take us on a tour around the mountains. We headed towards him and he headed towards us and gave us some scarfs as a welcome to Nepal which was lovely! We arrived in Kathmandu at 9 am – as we arrived we got…
Nighttime stories and homemade dinners
We arrived in Wild Acres Farm House and I made a cup of tea for mum and dad. We found an embroidery craft shop, which had everything to do with crafting, it was a really nice shop filled with wools and needles. I bought an embroidery set and some wools and some knitting wool and…
Wild Haven well I think it’s heaven
In the morning we drove off to a basic school, it was basic but they had everything they needed for school. We went in to a year 1 class and we saw shoes lined up outside by the classroom. Here are the children outside at playtime. I taught them how to sing and clap “…
Awesome elephants
This week we went to see a parade and saw lots of really decorated elephants which were really interesting. 2 or 3 days after that I went to an elephant sanctuary and when we crossed the river on the ferry and the person who was driving the boat DELIBRATLY rocked the boat from time to…
Hampi chillaxing
Hampi was a nice colourful place where you could relax and enjoy. The first time we went to have dinner there we went to a hotel and it was funny because inside they had a mattress on the floor with pillows by the wall and had a plank of wood propped up as a table with…
Markets and tribes
This week we stopped of in a market and found some interesting things!!! Here is a picture of one of the hammer tribes. She’s mixed soil and butter together and twizzled her hair into wringlets. We’ve also seen the men wearing big curvy grips in there hair!!! We also went to a tribe where I…
Crocodiles and hippos
The most smiley crock ever!!! This morning we went to see hippos and crocodiles in a very big lake. The reason we couldn’t see them in the sea was because Ethiopia is surrounded by land. so we got our life jackets on and hopped into the boat and set off! For the first 10 minutes…
Week 1 Ethiopia
During the first week we did some amazing things here are the highlights…………………….. I’m in Ethiopia and like last time we came to adopt my sister we went to the lime tree cafe. So, like last year we went again. As a juice I had a mix of papaya and orange however Gabriel had strawberry…
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