2008 Olympics

This summer I spent the month of august watching the 2008 Olympics. The first Olympic game I watched that got me hooked was volleyball. It was USA against Japan. USA won 25 to 21. The next game that really got me hooked was soccer. Even though USA wasn’t on one of the teams it was so interesting to see that some of the stuff that I usually do they do the same thing. I’ve been watching every single game ever since. There is also gymnastics. Its cool because we do stuff that they do they just do it faster.

--Alyssa

Ice Cream!!!

What happens when you sit 5 Kellys in front of a 4 scoop, 4 topping bowl of ice cream with whipped cream, hot fudge and 4 cherries????? Better send them to the beach to work it off!!!!

road trip

On July 26 we set off for the last trip of the summer. First we went on a two-hour ride to Melbourne, Florida to visit our aunt, uncle, and cousins’ house. When we arrived, they made the house feel like a real hotel! They even had a guest services booklet! We went in the pool and then dried off to eat. We had chicken nuggets, French fries, and lots of other good food to eat.
The next day, Alyssa, my mom, my aunt, and I went to the local craft fair. We walked around and looked at all of the cool crafts. When we left my sister and I ended up getting hair clips, my mom got a coal bucket and a cell phone charm, and my aunt got some things too. After the craft fair, we went to ice cream depot. Alyssa got snickers ice cream in a waffle cone, while I ended up getting a rocky road waffle cone. After Ice Cream Depot, we went to a restaurant called . Then, we went to the beach for a little while. We jumped from the waves and built sand castles. After we were done at the beach, we were so pooped that we went straight home and fell asleep.
On the third day, after going to church, we went back home for one special reason - pancakes. I was going to make my special world-famous pancakes. They were so good that everyone went back for seconds! After pancakes, we went to the zoo. We saw all different kinds of animals, and we went on a train ride. After that, we got some lunch at Mimi’s café and went to snip its. Snip its is a kids hair salon. Some kids were more exited than others, but when they were done, they got to put color in their hair and got a prize!
We were sad to leave the next day, but we were exited about where we were going – Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. The drive from our cousin’s house was about an hour long. When we finally got to Universal Studios we had to park. We thought oh no big deal. Then we figured out the real deal. We had to park all the way on the top, which was a killer walk. As soon as we got into the park we headed straight for Jimmy Neutrons blast. We had to wait about one hour for us to get in the attraction. After that we went to Shrek 4-D which was a twenty-minute wait then it started to rain. After that we did a lot of other things. Then we checked into our hotel. There was a Walgreen’s near by so our dad got us ice cream from there. The next day our dad got tickets to go see the Buccaneers practice. So he dropped my two sisters , my mom, and me off at Universal studios. We did a park hopper that day so we went to Islands of Adventure first (TIP: get to Seuss landing early). When our dad picked us up we went to a pizza place called Flippers pizzeria. When we had gotten back to our hotel there was a Friendly’s ice cream shop in walking distance of our hotel. The last day of Universal we decided to do a blowout day. First we went to Islands of Adventure then again to universal. We made it all day long. We were sad to go but we had a fun time while it lasted.