Star Wars exhibition

Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has got an awesome Star Wars exhibition on right now. I went with my friend DJ, who is also a major Star Wars fan.





There were lots of Star Wars nerds there, nearly all boys. You can tell they are a bit nerdy if they know all the names of the different characters. For example, here's me with a Sandperson.







I also saw a Wookie, a Jawa, R2D2, C3PO, a Droptrooper, and Luke Skywalker's landspeeder.

What kind of car does a Jedi Master drive? A To-Yoda! (And I met Yoda too at the exhibition.)

Camping at Cockatoo Island

When I was a baby (8 weeks old), my mum joined a local Mothers Group. All the babies and mums are still friends and last weekend we went camping at Cockatoo Island in the middle of Sydney Harbour. Here we are, and you can see our tents behind us:

We had lots of fun running around the island and going from tent to tent. We also had an early Christmas dinner which we ate outside with sausage sandwiches cooked in the camp kitchen and Xmas crackers:

The island used to be a prison. So some of the buildings were a bit scary, because they were old and need repairing. One of them didn't have a roof, and you can go into the rooms where they used to lock up prisoners:


You can see some more photos from the camping trip here.

Halloween 2008

We went a really good Halloween festival at a local school. There were all sorts of witches and zombies there. They had a thing called the Monster M.A.S.H, where you were taken on a ride on the 'ambulance' (they push you around the school playground really fast in a wheelchair). Then they put you on the operating table and ask you what you would like amputated.

I told them I needed my brain removed, so they put a bandage on my head complete with blood and pus!

Plus there was the Bridge of Doom which you had to cross without being eaten by crocodiles. Thank goodness I survived!

I also had my own Halloween Dinner Party with a few friends like the Grim Reaper, some vampires like myself and other assorted monsters. We certainly scared a few residents into giving us treats!

Mask on:

Even scarier, mask off!

Another hill in Hong Kong

They like a hill in Hong Kong. To get to it, you have to cross the harbour on a ferry (a bit like Sydney).

Then you have to catch a really steep tram up the hill. On the top of the hill, you can see all of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has lots of markets, and people eat outside a lot.

We went to a seafood restaurant where you can see all the fresh food (before it is cooked) alive in tanks outside. You could see the crabs, fish and prawns swimming around.

Kung Fu Panda was here

Have you seen the movie Kung Fu Panda? If you have, you can probably remember the bit where he tries to climb loads of steps up to a temple? Well, in Hong Kong they have something just like that. It's a big Buddha on a hill.

There were over 200 steps to the top, and like Kung Fu Panda, I was tired after the first five!

I also wanted to learn the ancient art of tai chi, so I joined a class taught by a man who was just like Master Wu Gwai in Kung Fu Panda.

Famous people from Hong Kong

This is me with Bruce Lee. He was famous for his kung fu.

And here is me with Jackie Chan. Funnily enough, he is famous for kung fu too.

Hong Kong Disneyland

On the way back from England, we stopped in Hong Kong for a week and spent 2 days at the newest Disneyland. We stayed in one of the Disneyland Hotels, and got to stay up late as the park was open until 11pm! I could have supper at 9:30pm and swim in the pool until 10pm too.

Everything in the hotel had Mickey Mouse ears on it, even the shampoo bottles, the lift buttons and train windows. See the picture of me on the train below? Look closely at the things you hang onto when you are standing up.




There were 3 lands, and my favourite one was Tomorrowland which had the Space Mountain ride.

Legoland!

When I went to Legoland for 2 days, it was so fun. My best ride was the Jungle Coaster and the Driving School (where the car looks like a Lego piece). There was a maze and you had to find your way through it. It actually took 25 million pieces of Lego to build Legoland. On a ride called the Space Tower (see the picture above), I had to pull my weight plus the chair and my dad. It was hard! On the log shoot, I got soaked. Then I got to go to the best bit: the Miniland. You got to see some countries of the world (built in Lego). You also got to see the London Eye. Then I had to go home.

If you look at all the pictures below (and the spider in the photo above), you'll see that everything is made of Lego.

Foreign tooth fairies

Another tooth fell out while I was in England. Will my Australian tooth fairy find me? Or will an English tooth fairy have to do the job instead? Will I be paid in UK pounds sterling or Aussie dollars?

I put my tooth in an envelope and addressed it to the Australian tooth fairy, but when I woke up the next morning, nothing had happened. I was really upset. Then Grandma said that it was probably because of the time difference. So we waited until later on in the day when it was night time in Australia and then found the tooth fairy had left AUS$5!

Fishing on the River Cam and sightseeing in Cambridge

My Grandma and Grandad took me fishing on the River Cam at a village called Grantchester. We borrowed a fishing rod and stopped at a pet shop on the way to get hooks and maggots. The people in the pet shop helped us put the line in the rod, and put the float and hook on the line. The maggots were multi-coloured so you can see them when they are under water. When we got to the river bank, we threw some maggots in the water to attract the fish. Then we put a couple of maggots on the hook and put the line in the water. The fish were quite smart and could get the maggots without being hooked. But after some time, we managed to catch 2 fish. They were too small to eat so we put them back in the water.

The next day we went around Cambridge on a double decker bus. We learnt a lot about the colleges of the university, and how places got their name. Did you know that Vikings invaded England after the Romans, and settled in Cambridge in an area called Danishtown? It was also a settlement for Knights of the Crusade: they liked round things, like roundtables and round churches. And it was also a town where the Romans stopped when marching between the capital cities they established in Colchester (Essex) and somewhere up north.

London Eye: a big ferris wheel

When we went to the London Eye, it was very fun. We got to see the whole of London. The London Eye is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest ferris wheel in the world or something like that.

Going on safari

When we went to Woburn Safari Park we saw lots of animals like lions, tigers and lots more. Some monkeys jumped on our car. There was a bit where you can go in your car and bit where you can walk. One monkey jumped on my dad and pulled his ears. You can see that we got very close to some of them.



The lady at the gate asked if we would like any maps and timetables when we bought our tickets. I said "No, thank you, I would rather look at the animals than do MATHS and TIMETABLES."