My Second Holiday in Kenya

About a week ago I was sitting on a plane on the way to Kenya, it was my second time there and I was really exited about going back, my first time was all the way back in April 2007. We arrived in Nairobi When it was dark, a cab picked us up and drove us to Tribe, which is a hotel which is managed by one of my mum's old friends Mark Somen. I thought it was a really smart hotel, we also thought it was really well designed. We had a drink at the bar and Louis and I went to look at the pool, after that we had a good sushi for supper. The next day we had a yummy breakfast, but then we had to pack up and leave.

Then we got on a plane and flew to Manda which is where we had gone last time but this time we where going to stay at a different place to the one we stayed at last time. When we arrived at Manda we saw a very colourful boat called Angalia with lots of flags on it which then took us to Diamond beach, which was were we were staying for the rest of the holiday. We were met at the beach by Rachel, who owned the place with her mum, Helen. Rachel took us to where we were staying, a house built around a tree (A sort of tree house except it had a ground floor) I thought it looked like a fun place with some of the trees branches going through some of the rooms. The tree was called a Baobab tree, which is a funny tree as it looks as if it had been pulled up from its roots, turned upside down and then put back in the ground again. We settled in a bit before having supper with Rachel and Helen and played Perudo with them, Perudo is a game from Peru where you have to try and make your opponent loose all their dice by tricking them. The next day we swam in the sea in the morning and in the afternoon. But unfortunately the sun didn't last long and the next day and most of the following days we heard the continuous sound of rain. We would wait at a sheltered table and play Perudo and Backgammon until the rain stopped for a bit and we could swim or go for a walk along the beach. We went to a lovely restaurant called Pepponis twice, Pepponis is on another island called Lamu which is opposite we were staying. Another day we went to Lamu town with Rachel, who needed to buy supplies, at Lamu town we had a really fun day, the whole town was full of bustling activity, there were lots of donkeys around and you could smell what they left behind, although I was a bit shocked at how bad some of them were treated. First we went to the museum and a really cheerful guide showed us around, explaining about all the exhibits as we went then we walked to the fort in the town. On the way there my dad bought me a model boat which he had one of when he was a little boy which I was really happy to get. Then we had a quick visit to the fort and then went to have a pizza with Rachel. We ordered our food but then when the waitress came she accidentally stepped on my boat! Thankfully it wasn't that broken and we fixed it as soon as we got home. On the day before we left mum, dad and me decided to swim the gap between Lamu and Manda, with Louis cheering us on from Ronaldo (another of the boats). We all made it and I found it very rewarding. Then mum and dad swam back, with Louis and me cheering from Ronaldo. On the last day I was very sad to be leaving, I met some really kind people and I hope I can go back again.

Games Day

A few weeks ago I had the most fantastic Sunday EVER!!!!!

I went to Games day a few weeks ago with my Godmother's husband, Andy. The whole thing is all about Warhammer which is what me and Andy both collect.

I woke up at around 6:00 in the morning as we had to catch the coach to Birmingham which is where it is situated, every store arranges a coach to take the people who go to the store to Games Day. When we got to the store I saw my friend William Gore who also went in the coach. We stayed in the car until the coach got ready to leave.

The journey was very long but it was fun as the store owners announced competitions (We didn't win any though.)

When we arrived we walked all the way to the halls from the coach park. Then we had to wait for a long time in a long queue. Then the fun began!!!

First we went over to this table where a battle was going on, we had great fun and fought lots of men.

Then we went off to buy some Warhammer and get my newest white dwarf signed by some people in the white dwarf team. Then we had a bit of a look about.

After we had a wander we went to another table and had a fun battle where we had to recapture a church which ended up with us surrounded and killing as many men as we could!

After we had finished another battle we still wanted to have more gaming. So we went back to our first battle and commenced to play over there.

After that we wandered around some more until it was time to give out the Golden Demon awards (the most valued painting prize in the whole of Warhammer. Then we got on the coach and travelled back to London (it took sometime as there was a lot of traffic, but we watched some of the Dark Knight.

I had a fantastic time and I'd like to thank Andy for taking me there.

Theo and Casper

Last weekend me and Louis went to our friends Theo and Casper's house. We played some big games of Warhammer and made a big fire in the field and stayed there in the dark for a bit. When we had to leave I had made this huge battle and we were just about to play it when we had to go which was sad. This Saturday we met at Dad's pub to celebrate Theo's birthday, We had loads of fun showing them around and playing in the playground next to the pub. There was a fair going on in the park next to the pub and we all sang karaoke.

My first full week at Latymer!

I've just finished my first full week at Latymer and I already know almost everyone in the class! Some of my favourite subjects are history with Mr Orme who is really nice and gives as fun homework, like drawing a medieval picture of how we think god created the universe, I got a green merit for that! My maths teacher is called Mr Cox and my English teacher is called Ms Adams, and there is a pritt stick stuck to the ceiling. Guess what the Latin course that we are doing is the same one that we did in our last school but we start from the beginning, but our Latin teacher asked which one of us had already done it and we had to put our hand up, drat!
Now we just had our injection for Kenya and now we're going to Theo and casper's house

My first day at Laymer!

On Friday I had my first day at Latymer which is my new school which is full of huge teenagers who are nearly twice as big as me!!! when the whole school had the first assembly of the term and I was amazed how many people where there and how big they were I felt so small compared to the people at the back. I was a bit shy at first but I soon made some friends called Charlie, Alex, Alex and Sidney. at lunch I was amazed at how good the food was compared to my last school although I shouldn't have been, the chef did get voted best school chef of the year anyway! On the day before that we all went to Longridge for activities First we did team building and we had to get everyone through the spiders web without touching the ground, I was lifted up and put through a hole, then I went up a Jacobs ladder and got halfway, then it was time for lunch. After lunch we had a picture quiz when we had to find the pictures on a sheet. Finally we went Dragon Boating which was fun. I'm really looking forward to staying at Latymer and here is a picture of me in my new school uniform.

Christmas and South Africa

When school broke up me, Mum and Louis went to South Africa for the winter holidays. Unfortunately Dad could not come because his business partner was away so he had to look after the business. When we arrived in the airport we hired a car and started the long drive to Wilderness which is where we would be staying for 10 days. The drive took about 5 hours and we had to stop and buy something for lunch. When we arrived at Wilderness a man took us around the house when he had left we all chose our beds and went out to get some food. The next day we met the housekeeper Berlinda me and Louis saw her in the morning when we were going up to watch TV at first we thought it was a burglar in the house but it was just Berlinda.

One day while we were on the beach we were playing in the water when a huge wave came up and washed all our stuff away! We recovered all of out stuff but the cameras were bust so we had to get new ones. When we got the new cameras we used them a bit which drained quite a lot of their batteries.

We made some friends there called Oliver and George they were very nice and I hope to see them again.

After Wilderness we went to Christopher's house. We stayed there for one night and we went on the beach a few times. I got some shells from the beach and when I got home I made them into a necklace for Mum.

South Africa was a beautiful country and it was sunny a lot of the time that we were there but some people told us that it was not always like that. I was fun being on holiday with Mum and Louis but we all missed Dad and wished he was here. I would like to go there again but this time with Dad who I think it would be better with.

At Christmas we all woke up and me and Louis went up to Mum and Dad's bedroom we opened our stockings all together. After breakfast we each opened one present I opened the present from Paddy which was a £20 book token and electro mags set. Louis opened the Risk game that I got him and Mum opened the necklace I made her. After that we all went to our cousins' for Christmas lunch our Granny and our other cousins were also there after lunch we all unwrapped our presents together. Georgia and I found a present labelled to "anyone who has a sense of humour" we both opened it and we found it was a box of racing grannies we each took one and tried to race them. When we left we went back home and opened the rest of our presents. I got some brilliant presents a magnetix i-coaster and the inkheart trilogy just to name a couple. It was a brilliant Christmas and I had a really fun day. Best of luck to everyone for 2009!

An Xtra fun day

On Sunday I had a stupendously fun day. First Dad took us to a old comic shop and gave us each £20. I brought £23 with me (pocket money) and brought some comics with it. I got an Iron Man comic book, four Uncanny X-men comics and an Calvin and Hobbes book. Louis also got a Calvin and Hobbes book an dhe got some Fantastic Four and X-men small books.

After that we went to Hyde Park for the fair Louis didn't want to go to the fair at first but then he changed his mind once he went on a few of the rides. The fair was really fun we went on a big wheel, a rollercoaster, a fun house, a helterskelter and a ghost train. The ghost train was very scary and at the end there was a fake body lying slumped and pressing a button and then when you got off he suddenly moved toward you which was very scary. When he did that I was so scared that I ran to the exit as fast as I could.

After that we took a taxicab to wagammama on high street Kensington I had mini chicken ramen which is vegetable soup with noodles, chicken, carrots, sweetcorn and spinach.

After that we walked along the road to the odean cinema where we were going to watch Madagascar escape 2 Africa. We stopped on the way for a hot chocolate which was very tasty and warming. When we arrived at the cinema Mum arrived and we all watched Madagascar together. The film was very funny and I enjoyed it very much. I loved the day and I am very thankful for Dad taking us everywhere.

My Grandpa's 70th birthday at Babington

On Friday we all left our house and set of to Babington in Somerset. Mum had baked a wonderful cake and we had wrapped up our TOP SECRET and TOP SECRET(S) for him. If ANY of you haven't been to Babington it's a hotel with luxurious rooms, a swimming pool, church, lake, a place for kiddies and spa. I've been numerous times and I can still get through the day and have something to do, the time is mostly spent at the little house/kiddies place (it's got PS3s). when we arrived we waited for our cousins, gave them a quick tour and had lunch.

Next morning we had breakfast and launched the day, it was a normal but fun day and I very much enjoyed it.

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The next day was Saturday and we celebrated Grandpa's Birthday with tea and the cake in a '70' shape. We all had the cake together and Grandpa opened his presents from us the 'top secret' was a telescope which if you type a planet on the keypad the telescope turns to look at it and a collection on DVDs one from every 10 years of his life which quite a few. Every one said Mum's cake was spectacular and I enjoyed it very much.

The next day was our last day at Babington me, Louis and our cousins went swimming and played on the swing until lunch. At lunch everyone who was invited to Grandpa's birthday sat down and had lunch together lots of people had beef including me. After lunch we had a bit more cake and then all the kids including myself left to play outside. When it was time to go I was very sad and said goodbye and thank you to Grandma and Grandpa and happy birthday to Grandpa. I enjoyed the weekend at Babington and I think Soho House the company who runs it have done a very good job of running it and I would love to come again.

the gibson mini adventure

On Wednesday we left London in a black convertible mini for our mini adventure. We drove all the way to the eurotunnel and drove onto a train which travelled under the channel tunnel we then arrived in Troyes and stayed at La Maison de Rhodes that day we had supper and the chef was this really nice man. Troyes has a big cathedral which I took some pictures of so did Dad so did Louis.

The next day we drove to a ski resort which was in the Alps there was no snow where the ski resort was because it was summer and it was too warm. There was a huge traffic jam and we waited in a queue for about 2 hours until the queue moved. The ski resort was called Les Arcs.

The next day we left early to get to Lake Garda which is in Italy. We drove past the italian part of the Alps, the highest we went up to that day was 2188m it was quite cold the drive was very cold especially when we had the windows and roof down I thought the mountains were very beautiful because of the shape of the land. We stopped at Verona for lunch which is a very old town. We visited Romeo and Juliet's balcony which Louis didn't really like because I took a picture of Mum and Dad kissing in front of Romeo and Juliet's balcony.

When we got to Grand Hotel Terme which was the hotel we were staying in for Sirmione Lake Garda we arrived and had a little swim in their pool which was the only pool the entire holiday it was very sunny in Sirmione and I went in Lake Garda with Mum Louis didn't come in. We stayed in Grand Hotel Terme for two nights I thought it was a really nice hotel and I think it desrves all of its five stars. I think the town is a lovely town its a small town with lots of restaurants which we went to two different restaurants and they were very good. I had veal milanese, cingale and margherita pizza (mummy and daddy had white truffle risotto and truffle past the next night the first truffles of the season!).

After we left Sirmione we drove to Venice which was the turnaround point. I think Venice is a very beautiful city and it is horrible that it is sinking. I think the highlights of Venice were the Gondola trip, the trip to the Doges palace, the Rialto bridge and Campanile (clock tower in St Mark's Square). I remember on the first night we went to Aqua Pazza a restaurant in campo S'Angelo and I had the biggest italian ham pizza that I have ever tried to eat (but I didn't quite finish). On our last day in Venice we left to a hotel in Riquewihr, Alsace - back in France. We got there after passing through Switzerland which is basically mountains and is in the middle of Germany, France and Italy which were all big empires at one point, Switzerland was never conquered during all the empires because it was too much hard work with all the mountains.

Riquewihr was a very old town and Dad said it is like a Hansel and Gretel town because it looks like the houses are made from gingerbread. It is right in the middle of the vineyards. The next day we left to Cambrai so that we could spend a day looking at the World War one museums and memorials graveyards. Dad showed it to us because he wanted to show us the sheer pointlessness of war. The memorial to the missing soldiers astounded me because of how many were missing because most of them would have been killed. The graveyard we went to was awful because there were lots of people, Dad estimated there were around 16,000 in that graveyard and we saw lots of other graveyards all over the place. We also visited a battlefield and looked at the trenches and holes that the shells made. I thought that the trenches would have been awful to live in because it must have been really muddy and you would have been exposed to the rain and hail.

On our last day we drove back to the eurotunnel entrance and took the train through the eurotunnel to England. Then we drove all the way back to London and gave the car back.

The silly Scilly Isles

A week and a few days ago we started our trip to the Scilly Isles. Firstly we went to Pointz, which was near Babington in Somerset, for two nights then we went to great-uncle Richard's new house that was being built in Cornwall. After a quick lunch we went to the heliport and waited for the helicopter that was going to take us to Treso, when we arrived at the heliport we found the Bury family (Marcus, Sasha, Christopher, Olivia and Nicholas) Harry, Louis friend, Harry's mum, Hilary, and his little sister Lottie, waiting for us at the heliport. After Olivia had told us about the Barbecue that evening and that there were going to be marshmallows, we put our bags on the carriage on the tractor and went on the carriage. When we got to the shops we got off apart from dad because he was taking the bags to Dial Rocks which was the house we were staying in for the first week. After we got our bikes Louis went of with Harry while Christopher showed me where Dial Rocks was, when we got there the tractor had just arrived and dad had unpacked the bags, dad told us to take the bags in while he went to collect his bike, after we had broght the bags in I gave Christopher the kite we bought for him, when we were just about to go to his cottage, Sunbeam, mum called us to take the ball for Nicholas and the girly kit for Olivia. When we got to Sunbeam we went to the beach and gave Nicholas his ball then we went inside Sunbeam and gave Olivia her girly kit, after that Sascha told us that the BBQ would be ready about 6ish so we went and explored the island a bit and then we went to Sunbeam and got ready for the BBQ. While we played with the kite that we got Christopher and it was a very good kite I met Christopher's friend Lucien and played a little football with him. Then we roasted marshmallows I had lots and they were really yummy. Then we went to Dial Rocks and went to bed

The next day Louis and Harry went sailing but I couldn't go because I had reddish cheeks so Dad said I couldn't go sailing because of that. Louis and Harry also went swimming which I couldn't do but I went to the shops and got a Yorkie instead. We went to the New Inn for some ice cream me and Louis had a double scoop - I had two scoops of chocolate. The next morning Harry left on a boat I went swimming and went to the jacuzzi which was really warm and Dad liked it because it helped his neck.

Over the next two weeks we went to the Abbey Gardens which was really beautiful, we went and explored the tree house which was really fun because you could swing on ropes like tarzan. Finn, Jesse and Ewan also came over from St Mary's and they stayed over for a night and went for a walk which took us to a castle a few days later it was Christopher's last day and we went to Briar and had a vary long walk which took us to the end of the island then Lucien and his dad stayed at the Hell Bay Hotel while we all went home. On our last day we went on a really long cycle ride which went all the way round the island. We also went to the fair which was called the four 'B' - Dad thought it was Burgers, Bouncy Castle, Beer and Babes! Actually it was Bands not Babes.

I like Tresco because there aren't that many cars and it's quite a small island and there are only a few shops around. The good thing is that you can go off to explore and your parents don't have to follow you everywhere you go. Even though it rained most days we still had a fun holiday on Tresco especially crabbing which we got lots of crabs on.