Florida and Other Weird Stuff.

Sorry it took so long to write. I have been busy. We had a lot of fun in Florida. I baked whoopie pies and an apple pie although there was so much butter in it so we had to cut down on that and the crust was a pain in the butt to make. The whoopie pies were really good though, chocolate whoopie pies with peppermint filling. Yum! We also saw The Hunger Games while we were there. On one of our last couple days we decided to go for an airboat ride. There were headphones that we put on so we could hear the driver speaking since the fan in the back was really loud. We saw a lot of  alligators in the water and on land. Some of them were really big!
We went swimming in their pool everyday. Our grandparents own a golf cart and we always like to go for rides and we get to drive it. Well, we kind of had an accident. My mom and Zhi had just gotten back from the ride and mom was letting Zhi pull in and he went in kind of fast so when my mom tried to step on the brake she accidentally hit the gas and they went right into the door. (Did I mention Zhi was sitting on  mom’s lap?)This was very scary for all of us. Me and Grammy were in the kitchen making the apple pie so we saw the door swing open and all of these pieces of the wall falling. Surprisingly though the golf cart was not hurt except for the little plastic thing that goes over the lights in the front. The part the golf cart really damaged was the door and the door frame. It had cracked. From then on or should I say the rest of the vacation was “ out of order”. That was probably the one thing that we will never forget from that trip. Random thing that has nothing to do with Florida is that we did paper mache in class and we got to take them home to day so there is also a picture of the Ermine Weasel that I did but looks like a cat. Also, I know the face is messed up so yeah. Oh, I forgot to tell you that we saw the cutest ducklings ever! Sorry the pictures are all jumbled! :(

       

Flordia!

I am going to be going to Florida today after school! I am very excited. I am going to be visiting my grandparents. I will take pictures and post them on the blog.Basically all we do there is bake,swim, and drive the golf cart crazily.It should be lot's of fun. We are going to be getting there at midnight and then driving 2 hours to there house. Oh well.

New York Pictures

New York was AWESOME!!! We went to the High Line, the Lion King, Lincoln Center, Lego Store, Disney store, Chocolate Store/ factory.It was a lot of fun. The Lion King was a big highlight. The costumes were great and the songs were amazing too. We went to the Lego Store mainly for my younger brother. I have to admit that it was better then I thought it would be. They had this dragon that was made all out of Lego's. They also had other interesting things that were made completely out of Lego's. The Disney store was also fun and it had these projectors that were projecting on trees and it made these flowers and leaves show up on the trees. Lincoln center was also neat. It had these staircases of grass that was on top of a roof! It also had a this statue in this water thing where you can throw money in. The chocolate store/factory was also fun and we each got a sweet. I got a chocolate croissant. Yumm!We had a really good trip.

Long Day/ New York

Yesterday since my sister made it to states we all had to go to Fryburg which is an hour and a half from here. We stayed basically the whole day and there were 4 races. Girls skate and classic race and boys skate and classic. Then we stayed for the awards. It was a very long day. Then we had 3 families over and our neighbor to celebrate the race and stuff like that. Now for the New York thing we are going to be going soon and meeting up with my moms brothers family and going to see the lion king which we got the CD for so we could listen to all of the music. It is going to be very fun I am going to take pictures and post them so you can see stuff. I think it is going to be very fun. My sister is getting her braces on Wednesday and we are leaving on Thursday. Well that's all for now.

Testing!

Yahoo!!! I have finally figured out how you add and image to your blog. My sister is getting her braces in about a week. My brothers birthday is tomorrow and so is valentines day. It is going to be very busy. I also have flute and communications as well as skiing after school and homework and obviously my brothers birthday. Talk about crazy. We are going to make moon cakes over break. Yummy!!!

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Cooking and Piano

My piano recital went great. But.. I did mess up. My mom said that nobody noticed except for me but I still can't believe that I messed up on that. For cooking on Saturday we made Beef Bourguignon from the barefoot contessa cookbook. We used fillet mignon. Expensive or something my mom says. It was very good. We all liked it except my sister didn't really like the beef (she's not a meat lover). What I didn't really like in the dish was the pearl onions and the carrots which I had to chop diagonally to make it look fancier. Everything else wansn't bad. We also had some rice with the dish and we poured the sauce over it and it was really good. On Sunday I made Honey Apple Torte. It was so good. Everyone loved it. It was also really easy to make. I think that I will make 2 of them and then put frosting on it and then it could be kind of like a cake. Anyway, just wanted to tell you. Have to go and make zucchini bread!

This Week and Weekend

So happy that it's the weekend! I had skiing on Friday and I felt as if I really improved. And on Thursday I had a band concert. It went really well. After that we had ice cream! (yummy!) Today we are going to go skiing.Me and my sister have a piano recital on Sunday and after that we are going to a super bowl party. I might watch a little. I really don't see what's so exciting about football but whatever. People can think what they think. I hope I don't mess up at the piano recital.