The conclusion of aaaaahhhhhh!!!

The conclusion! Huzzah! Yesterday, about two minutes after I posted the last post, there was a long blackout. That's what I call good timing! Let's get on with it.

After the mime (whom I named Life) had done his performance, we went up and I saw a person. Immediately the word "ice" came to my mind so I decided to name him that. Then Guide instructed us to line up along a ledge. At the top of a crevice, I saw a man. He lifted his head and birds suddenly flew away from the rock. That may or may not have been scripted, but it was cool either way. He started coming down the crevice and I realized that he was Sadness with raggedy clothes. He came down the crevice and stared at us. Then he walked past us and went up to another rock.

Sadness met another man, and I decided to name him Sharp. Sadness and Sharp started fighting. During the fight I realized that Sharp was actually The Troll! Eventually, Sharp The Troll backed down and let Sadness pass.

After walking some more, we saw a man at the base of a cliff, attached to a rope. The rope went up, and attached to somebody with a vail over his face. When everyone was gathered, he took off the vail and revealed that he was a she! She went down and he went up. Meanwhile, I noticed Sharp The Troll messing with some rope. When the girl got down, she took off her shirt and I noticed that she had golden dragon bracelets and was actually Maiden! Then some more people did more acrobatics and we had oranges, thereby fulfilling the "fruitful"-ness of the prophecy. The end.

Continuing in aaaaahhhhhh!!!

The not-so-long awaited continuation has arrived! Just to remind you, we had escaped from the clutches of a nasty troll and were in the process of continuing onward towards the top of the mountain in the land of aaaaahhhhhh!!! (5 A's, 6 H's, and three !'s).

When we had walked a little bit higher we met an odd lady with a mask and very long fingernails hiding behind a tree. She asked us if she should be afraid of us and we assured her that she should not be. She crept out from behind the tree and explained that there were so many of us and we looked different from her and so she was unsure if she should be scared of us or not. She introduced us to Tree, the tree she had been crouched behind. Then she told us a trick that Tree hat taught her: when you are afraid and your stomach is in knots, remember what you are grateful for. I decided to call her Gratefulness. Gratefulness then asked us to tell her what we were grateful for. When the rest of the group came, she talked more about fear and how Tree helped her to cope with it so I decided to change her name to Fear. Then the Well Dressed Man With a Briefcase came out of nowhere and walked slowly up the path, avoiding eye contact. Fear asked us what we should do and we started following him.

He came to a stop near a river, dropped his umbrella, and opened his briefcase. My first thought was "OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" because he was a well dressed man with a briefcase after all, but then he took out not a gun, but a little doll. He cried over the doll, showed it to us, and then... threw it into the river and died. I was very surprised. I decided to name him Sadness. As I decided that, a lady (whom I named Maiden) (Don't you like the word whom? anyways...) came out of the river with the doll and a vase (or is it an urn? I hope not because urns are where people keep the ashes of dead people) in her hands. She wore a white dress and golden dragon-shaped bracelets that went almost to her shoulders. She started walking and Guide followed. We stood still, then all together started following Guide. Maiden split away from the group at an intersection, then a little ways after that guide told us to stop at a crossroads.

At the crossroads there was a mime who did a performance where he found a rose and smelled it, then tried to reach it and was pricked. Then he found a woman and had a baby. He showed his baby things like dogs and birds. Suddenly the baby was a teenager/adult an the mime looked surprised, then sad. he walked up to his kid, patted him awkwardly, and watched him go. Then he sadly walked away... and found the rose again. He sniffed it and then, cautiously, picked it up. Then he smiled and everybody clapped.

I'm yawning already! we only have two performances left so I'll do the rest tomorrow.

adventures in the land of aaaaahhhhhh!!!

We shall take a break from my vacation today to talk about an awesome performance that I saw today called aaaaahhhhhh!!! (5 A's, 6 H's, and three !'s) when we started, I noticed four things: 1:Lucia was way too exited. 2:my lip hurt because Lucia had kicked it. 3:one of the boys had no enthusiasm whatsoever. 4: the aaaaahhhhhh!!! lady's hair was pink.

We all did an exercise where we all said "aaaaahhhhhh!!!," then put on our blindfolds and started walking after some Unseen Person said "follow me". While we were walking we heard lots of things: flutes, didgeridoos, wolves, rushing water, cars overhead, the clicking of bikes, and lots more.

Then Guide (the name I gave to the Unseen Person) told us to take off our blindfolds. When we did, he said there was a Messenger coming. He and the Messenger spoke in a strange language, then he said that we needed to go quickly so we continued onward after Guide explained that we would meet weird people and that some would wish to interact with us, but we should not worry because the end of the journey would be fruitful. I wondered aloud if it would be baconful too and Dad laughed.

After a short climb we found an odd woman, dressed entirely in black, who was stretching and singing. She sang a song about flying and crossing lines and forgiving while Guide hid in a tree. Near the end of the song, she took some rainbow colored ribbons from the ground and gave them to Guide. Guide said that she had given us gifts for The Troll and to follow him. As I was leaving, I decided to call her Forgiveness.

During the climb to The Troll I saw a Well Dressed Man With a Briefcase and an umbrella walking along the edge of the rocks. I decided not to trust him because you generally shouldn't trust well-dressed men with briefcases. Then I wondered if I should trust him because if they have umbrellas, they might be friendly, but I eventually decided against trusting him.

When we had gotten a little further up the hill, Guide stopped us and said to be quiet because we were near the layer of The Troll. He told us to line up along the creek, but to not cross it. There near a tree was The Troll. He was grunting and digging up grass and sticks and branches and dirt. Guide told us that he was going to leave the ribbons so that the trolls don't get too close. After lifting a large, heavy looking branch, The Troll found the rainbow ribbons and went into his tree. Then Guide told us we could continue, so we did.

I'm sleepy now. Check out part two later. Bye!

My Vacation part 3

The next day was ducky derby day. When we got there, I created a sand fortress on the bank and put an aphid in to be the king, but he just swam across the moat, climbed through a crack in the perimeter wall, and ran away. Then the rubber ducks came and I threw them while saying encouraging or discouraging words. Then I played in a bouncy house obstacle course. In the obstacle course there was one obstacle where you had to duck under some poles so I went under while throwing my hat over and when I came out the other side my hat landed just to the left of my head. If it had landed on my head it would have been cooler so next time I'll aim a little bit more to the right. Then we had lunch and went to a waterfall. That was our day. I'll post this now so I don't get postponed any more.

My Vacation part 2

Now for the second say of vacation that is actually the third day but the first day was to boring to wright about. Today we went to the park again and ate lunch at a store called Poppycock. Poppycock had really good french toast

Shocking news! Dad made me go back to bed because it was 10:30. So "today" has now been officially converted to "yesterday". I thought about changing the date but decided that this was more fun. Anyways, let's continue...

but I didn't like the pancakes. After Poppycock we went to an art gallery. My favorite art were the half sunken sculptures, Choices, and Destiny. Then we went to the park and played a little before getting a sweater and a kit-kat for me and silly bands for Lucia. Then we went home to find our bathing suits for the rec. center. Mine got lost so we had to find it, and of course then watch TV and finish Tentacles before finally going to the rec. center.

At the rec. center we put on sunscreen, went into the pool, and immediately got called out for a ten minute "safety break" during the break I told dad about some cartoons I had watched like Two Dumb Dogs. Then we went back in the pool and played on the slide and a game where Lucia grabbed onto my back and I tried to get her off without using my hands. Then we played a game where dad was a zombie that tried to eat our brains. About halfway through our game Lucia and I were escaping from his lair when I heard a noise and looked up. Then a wave of water fell on my face. I went out but Lucia was stuck in with dad. She got out and we went away. While Lucia drowned in the buckets I went to the fountains and we tried to cover them. Then they turned the water off so we played some more zombie game.

on the second safety break we went to get ice cream. I got an ice cream sandwich and Lucia and dad got ice cream on a cone. then I got to witness a fight over dominance over The Blueberry and

O.K. Long story short, I got postponed a few days. On with it.

Then we went home. Yes, I was so postponed that I couldn't even write that sentence. I'll post now so that I don't get postponed again.

My Vacation

My vacation started three days ago and so far it's been really fun. Before you start wondering what kind of monster school I go to (just so you know, I go to Platt CHOICE) let me tell you the difference between summer vacation and summer break. A break is when you don't go to school for a period of time longer than 64 hours (that's two days plus eight hours before and after school). A vacation is when you go to a place far enough away that they have a separate airport during a break. I am currently writing from my dad's computer in snowmass. The last two days were really fun (the first day of our vacations are always spent lollygagging around the house)

Yesterday we went to the pool and played with a beach ball in a weird version of soccer, then dad became a zombie and tried to capture the beach ball, which was always being yanked away at the last second.

Then we went to the park and decided to get ice cream, so we searched for an ice cream shop. On the way we found a fountain and whenever it stopped spraying, we ran through it. Somebody had put a balloon in the fountain and sometimes it got shot up into the air. Then we went to a nearby park and played a little on the rocks and the spinning things that spin. I made up a game on the spinning things that spin where you start sitting and try to stand while spinning. then I saw lucia on the hammok-swing and decided to join. Two other kids came too and we swung really high. Then the kid next to me started to hug me and I yelled "Why does everybody hug me! It doesn't make any sense!" and then of course Lucia and the other guy started hugging me so I left the hammock-swing. Then grandma interviewed me and I answered every question with "El arbol" which means "the tree". Then we went for some ice cream and I found a magpie and named him crow for absolutely no reason. Then we went to a store called Electric except when you look closely it actually says Eclectic which means (I just looked this up):

ec·lec·tic

noun /iˈklektik/  eclectics, plural A person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources adjective /iˈklektik/  Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources - her musical tastes are eclectic Of, denoting, or belonging to a class of ancient philosophers who did not belong to or found any recognized school of thought but selected such doctrines as they wished from various schools

Dada! The dictionary.com definition. The store sells a lot of different stuff so it is eclectic #1. Anyways, the store had a sock monkey. Yes, I made you read all that for a sock monkey.

Later at dinner I said "El arbol" again and everybody started laughing even mom who didn't know the joke and so we reviewed the video and everybody laughed even harder. Then I read Tentacles and went to sleep.

You know what? I think that's enough for one post. Coming soon: day three of my vacation.

Updates on Stuff part 2

This is the part of the last post that I couldn't finish because of my dad calling me up. I wanted to tell you my new creatures in Zoo Tycoon. tadaa!:

• 10 bluefin tuna
• 5 bottlenose dolphin
• 2 bowhead whale
• 4 common sawfish
• 4 elephant seals
• 3 giant squids
• 12 green moray eels
• 3 lion's mane jellies
• 4 mermaids
• 4 southern sea otters
• 6 whale sharks

That concludes the marine portion of my zoo. I also added dinosaurs because I have completed all the research and conservation and why waste all the T-rex and dinosaur stuff? so I added two T-rexes. Then I decided to give the scientist more work (all animal caretakers at my zoo are in charge of two exhibits) and made a Spinosaurus exhibit with 2 spinosaurus because Lucia said I should get a spinosaurus. Spinosaurus two is a troublemaker and whenever there is a broken fence, she is the first to go through it. I don't know if they programmed different personalities or if it is sheer chance, but it is interesting either way. I also built a macrauchenia exhibit with 5 machrauchenia and a kentrosaurus exhibit with 4 kentrosaurus, but spinosaurus 2 ate all the kentrosaurus so I just extended the spinosaurus exhibit into the kentrosaurus exhibit. Unfortunately, spinosaurus 2 died of old age yesterday at about 7:47. I miss her. :( I also have an awesome zoo with only show animals. That's all I can think of to write so goodbye!

P.S. I didn't do this post this yesterday because I was busy making my show zoo and my dad got mad at me for staying up late and sent me to bed and quit Zoo tycoon to delete my data. luckily, he didn't know about the "do you want to save your zoo before quitting" so the second I came to the computer I clicked yes and it saved. I need to go berry picking at a farm now; my mom's calling me. Gotta go!

Updates on stuff

I haven't been blogging lately because I was too busy watching YouTube for a post, playing Zoo Tycoon, and playing with Grandma (who came from Mexico).

First of all, two days ago I was playing outside at dusk and right near Home Tree (we call it that because it is what we use as our house or base in games. This time Lucia was my pet Charlotte-fairy and we were trying to survive in the wilderness) there were lots and lots of swarming dragonflies nearly half a foot long! I told Lucia to get a camera, and while she was gone I just stood watching the dragonflies when one of them flew straight into my chest and I screamed very loudly. Now, I'm not afraid of dragonflies, or any insects for that matter (except maybe earwigs, because they are all flat and skittery and pincery-*shudder*) but when any thing loud and buzzing runs into me, I lose it. This normally happens with dragonflies, wasps, bumblebees (though, strangely enough, not honeybees), and large moths.

The other thing I wanted to write about is a dream I had who-knows-how-many days ago. I have a vague recollection of being a homeless runaway with Lucia (runaway from what? No idea) and then making my way to a zoo. We (Lucia and I) were at the hippo exhibit when I noticed that the water was blood red so Lucia and I went to check it out. All we found were the hippos, some rocks, two aspen trees, and a small redwood tree. Then when heard a voice say "We've got you now" and when we turned around Jackson and Jillson (from The Mysterious Benedict Society. maybe we were running away from the institute) Then Jillson got struck by lightning (yes, I had been reading that chapter of the second book). Jackson said "I don't need her" and jumped at us. Then a strange red powder came out of the redwood and surrounded Jackson and Jackson died. I knew at once that the red powder was poisonous pollen and we ran. We made everybody in the zoo evacuate, then got into the last car with two other children and told the driver (a zookeeper named Maria) to step on it. We drove away with the pollen right behind us, and kept having to swerve when the wind changed. Eventually we went out of the pollen's reach and got off the car. Then Maria started driving back and we switched to a flashback of Maria with a gorilla saying (to the gorilla) that all she really wanted to do in life was save people. the we switched back to the present and mafia was driving at the zoo, through the pollen, with a torch. Then she burned the tree while dying, fulfilling her last wish. I like this dream because it's end is happy (well, at least bittersweet) and it stays on the same storyline. Those dreams don't come often.

I also wanted to tell you about a dream where my dad and I survive an agnurognathus attack (gold star to anyone who remembers them from my Primeval post. They are small pterosaurs that travel in flocks and are attracted to the smell of blood), but I almost don't remember the dream except that we camped out in my room, then made a mad dash to mom's room and stayed there until they left. I also sort of remember being on a boat in a river with large crocodiles. My dad's calling me up so I'd better go. Bye!