Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon was SOOOOO FUN because it was my first time watching it, (etc). But I wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for my Mom and my Uncle. We were at my cousin's house for Easter, and my cousin and I had to do a lot of convincing. Sylvia (My cousin) kept the notes we wrote to them for Thanksgiving! And on the note my Mom wrote to us maybe in the Spring of 2014 we could have a sleepover. So that proved to my Mom that she had wrote it, and we could have a sleepover. When my family left my Mom said to me "Dad and Flynn will meet you guys at the marathon." I responded "Okay!"

 So I slept over Easter night, and in the morning we got dressed, and we watched part of a movie we had started the  last night, and soon it was time to go to the marathon. We packed sunscreen, LOTS of food, a game, and blankets. They lived in Maynard, and we had go to Newton, so it took a little while, but not too long.

When we got there we unpacked everything, and their Grammy and Grandpy  there on the other side were there, and 2 other cousins. Everybody set stuff out, and we just talked with family members. It was VERY fun!!! First, there were just army women and men walking, and police with their motorcycles, and cars. We cheered them on. Then I noticed that my Dad and my brother were right behind me. I was shocked for a second. They had brought a lot of stuff like food, and coats. Finally, the marathon began.

YYYYYYAAAAAYYYYY!!!!! Some runners came through. I heard screams from all around. I was so EXCITED! First, the wheelchair athletes came through. They were sweating, and really tired, and working very hard. We cheered so much for them! Second, the women runners came through. I remember the first 2 women: The first girl was Rita Jeptoo, and the second girl was Shalane Flanagan. Shalane was actually from Marblehead! Rita was a 33 year old women from Kenya. They were so fast! I could tell that they were working so hard also. Third, all of the men were running past us. Zoom! They also were running very fast. I remember the first guy: His name was Meb Keflezighi. Meb was 38. The whole group of men were very fast. After, other men and other women were running. That's when we started giving out waters.

Sometimes they were running so fast that when they got the water out of somebody's hand, and it would just drop. And sometimes the people would tell you to splash/throw the water on them. We brought 10 gallons of water, and we ran out! So then we started giving out oranges. And that went good too. Some of my cousins put them on a plate, but I didn't. Eventually, we ran out of those! After that, my Dad told me that after my aunt came by, we would leave. I said "Okay" in kind of a sad voice, because we were going to leave all of the fun! Soon enough, my aunt came by. We both said "Hi" to each other. P.S. I'm the girl who's wearing a hat in the picture.

Then we started packing our stuff up, saying good bye, and walking to the car. My Dad really wanted a drink so he said we would have to go to a store to buy him a drink on the way home, but there was a lemonade stand, and the lemonade was only $.50. So we bought that.

When we got home I found out the winners: 1st place winner for the men was Meb Keflezighi who finished in 2:08:37, the first place winner for the women was Rita Jeptoo who finished in 2:18:57, but Shalane Flanagan came in 7th place. For the wheelchair athletes the 1st place winner for the women was Tatyana McFadden who finished in 1:35:06, and 1st place winner for the wheelchair athletes for the men was Ernst Van Dyk who finished in 1:20:36. They all did really good!

And that was the time of my life.

Movie Review 5: RIO2

RIO2 was a way better movie than RIO, the first one. I'll tell you 4 of my favorite parts. One was when the some of the blue birds played a soccer game with some of the red birds. We wanted the blue birds to win, but unfortunately they lost. But it was so cool because I love soccer and there was a scene on it, and they made the birds ave so much talent in the "bird soccer game." Another one of my favorite parts was when the husband blue bird was on his GPS trying to find Linda and Tolio which were his old owners, and the lady said searching for dinner in Tokyo! My 3rd  favorite part was when they moved to the Amazon Rainforest, and they met this other blue bird. Their family thought that they were the only blue birds in the world. The bird they met had the voice of Bruno Mars. (Really good singer). He showed them his house that he made last minute for them. It was pretty good though. My last favorite part was when they got in a house, and they were pretty much acting like people! They were making pancakes, watching T.V., and sitting at a table eating breakfeast! They had no shelter so that's

where they went. So as you can tell, this was a very good movie. Kids will like it a lot, and adults will like it to!

Movie Reveiw 4: Mr. Peabody and Sherman

This movie was AWESOME!!! So this dog adopted Sherman, and he has an awesome life. They have this thing called the way back, and you take a elevator to it. It's this big red circle. If you just type in where you want to go, it will take you there. You can go in the future, or the past, but if you go in the future, there would be 2 of you! In the way back, they have been to Egypt, and some other places. Mr. Peabody and Sherman are smart, and make a good team. Another thing in the movie is that Mr. Peabody invites a girl's family that is in Sherman's class, but Sherman hates her. It goes  interesting. People wonder how Sherman is so smart, so Sherman has to make some stuff up. But when Penny Peterson is in his room, she asks him a few questions, and he answers them all right. She said "How do you know all of that?" He mumbled "In the way back." Then he showed her the way back, and they went to a place. Sherman was very guilty because Mr.Peabody said to NEVER show anybody the way back. They meet really cool people, like: Leonardo De Vinci, and Mona Lisa.Well, I am not going to tell you the whole movie, so if you want to find out more go see it!!

New Season of Soccer

My new season in soccer is going well, and a couple of days ago was my first practice. I switched teams this year, from the white team, to the green team. But whats better about it now, is that I am on Amanda's team. (My friend's team). I am really excited for this new season, because I love soccer. Every year, you get a new I think professional coach, to teach you a little bit, but you're coach still teaches you too. Plus, my friend's Dad is the coach now, and he is very nice! Practices are awesome. what makes it awesome, is that I get to go with my friend to practice with her Dad. My goal for this year, is to at least get 1 goal in the whole season, because last year when I was on the white team, I didn't score a goal fro the whole season. But I'm kind of sad because my old coach was so nice too!




What's weird about the t-shirts, is that they are a adults small! Every game we play a new team, but in the whole season, we play each team 2 times. We played the Yellow Highlighters on Saturday for the game. Every Saturday we play a game. And we started our season off well! We won the game 1-0!! I was sweeper 4 times, and I kicked some balls that went like 4 feet above everyone's head! We have this thing on our team called sweeper and stopper, instead of no defense. It was EPIC!!!!! Well we started our season off great, so stay tuned for the next post!!

Movie Review 3: Muppets Most Wanted

This was a great movie. As you probably know the first Muppets movie was really good, so you would think this second one is really good. And if thought that, you are correct✔. The Muppets go on this world tour, and they had just hired their new manager Dominic Badguy. Dominic says it pronounced (BAD-jee). But in the movie Dominic does very bad things, so that's why his name is Dominic Badguy, instead of BAD- jee. There are 2 Kermits, one is named Constantine, and than other one is just the regular Kermit. The Constantine Kermit, has a mole, and the 2 Kermits get mixed up, because Constantine puts a glue on mole on the real Kermit's face, so nobody can tell them apart and the real Kermit cant really go on the world tour. But there is a way to get them all back together, but you have to see it to find out what happens!! Plus, Constantine has a different voice, and Constantine put this green paint to cover up his mole! And Constantine's voice sounds nothing like Kermit, but the Muppets think it the real Kermit!1and it sounds nothing like Kermit, but the Muppets think its the real Kermit! Hard to believe right!? Dominic, and Constantine make so much mischief!! If you want to see what happens, you have got to see the movie!!!!

P.S. Tina Fey is in it.

Mom and Grandma's Birhtday

My Mom and Grandma's birthday is really on the 26th, but we celebrated part of it. My Grandma came up, and my 2 aunts, Auntie Meg, and Auntie Shana. First we went to the Museum of Fine Arts, witch is located in Boston. We left at 1:45,and left at 4:15. Anyways, the pieces of art were truly amazing. There were a lot by Claude Monet, and Vincent Van Gogh. Those artists are very good!! What was cool was that some of the pieces of art were made out of clay, wood (etc.) And it showed me how they have very different styles of art in different cultures. And a lot of the paintings were based on a real time, or person, or a thing, or a pattern. That my first time there, but it was AWESOME!! Then at 4:10 we started to walk out of the museum, but our car wasn't there yet so we just sat down on the bench. Finally, I saw a blue traverse pull up, and I said "Come on guys, I see our car!" So we walked to the car, and all got in it.

Secondly, when we had gotten on the car, we were headed to the Charles Playhouse to see a Blue Man Group production. We had to park in the parking garage, and then head up the elevator. It was a little bit hard to find a parking spot, but we found one on the 3rd floor of the parking garage. Once we got out, we were very excited to go on the elevator, because we were so excited to go to the show! We got into the elevator, with 1 other family. In fact, they were also going to see the Blue Man Group! We pressed the G button. Swipe, slip, the elevator was going down. My ears popped a little bit. When we got to the ground, we started walking to the Charles Playhouse. You know how in the cites, they have those things where you have to press the button to walk across the streets, well we had some of those. I looked up, and sure enough I saw the sign that read Charles Playhouse with the Blue Man group on it. So we walked in, and we waited in a short line, and when it was our turn, our family gave the man our tickets for the show. After our family gave the man our tickets, we walked up the stairs, and into the theatre. There was this girl that was telling the people that walked in where their seats were. She told us where our seats were, and we walked right down the aisle and sat down in our seats. Flynn, my Grandma, and my Auntie Meg were sitting in the row that I was sitting in. It was the back row. But my Mom, Dad, and my other aunt Auntie Shana, were in front of us. We started talking, until a waiter came up to us, and asked us if we wanted a drink.

"Sure!" we said. And we all ordered drinks. In a few minutes, the lights turned off. An announcement went on, and said "We can tell that Dorothy has a headache." And then it told us to say "We are sorry that you have a headache." So that's what we did. After they made those funny announcements, the show started. My favorite parts were when 1 of the blue men started throwing gumballs into another blue mans mouth, and the blue man was spraying the different colors of the gumballs onto a white cardboard tipe of thing, and when on of the blue men went up in my row, and took a teenager up on the stage and sat down at the table with her, but 1 of the blue men put a blue top on her, connected to a black skirt to look like she was a blue women, instead of a man, and they started eating Twinkies, and at 1 part when they were eating Twinkies, Twinkie that was mushed up, and was like a cream, started coming out of the little holes in their outfits. It was gross but funny. Towards the end of the show, I noticed that there was toilet paper right above me, but it was stuck, so my Auntie Meg gave it a little tug, and it started rolling down on me. It was so, so, so, so, so, so, so, EPIC!!!!!!!!!! We were pushing it forward, and Auntie Meg and I were shaking the toilet paper. Also VERY EPIC!!!!!! The last thing I loved was at the finale when these HUGE!! And I mean HUGE balls, were being passed around the theatre. Our family would just be right there, but our fingertips just wouldn't touch it. the people would always bounce it away in front of my Mom's row. And those were my favorite parts!!!


 Third, we went out to restaurant called Legal Seafood. We literally had the best waiter in the world!! Her name was Sherina. She was very nice. When my Dad reserved some spots, he just that we had a birthday in the family, and they gave us our own little private  room, called the Governor's Room. She asked us if we wanted to close the door? And we wanted to because you basically never get to do that. Auntie Meg made a beautiful toast, each a candle because it represented my Mom as a light in our lives. I thought the toast was very meaningful. When we ordered, I got fish-shaped ravioli with cheese inside with red grapes, and fries. It was very yummy!! I devoured it. For dessert they made a cake with a picture of my Mom on it. It was also very yummy! When we got home, and my Mom opened my present, she was so delighted. I got her a $50 gift card on Groupon,(app on the I-pad that gives you better prices on shows, and stuff like that). And my card really touched her heart.

Snow Tubing

When I still lived in Falmouth in my school's camp we went snow tubing at Nashoba Valley. I had to have all of my snow gear, like my snow pants, boots, gloves, and a hat. So we walked into the school early, and half of the kids were already there. The instructor welcomed us and said good morning, and hello. I had some of my gear on, but then I noticed that I didn't have my boots! I told Tina (One of the school teachers there, and a helper of the camp) that I didn't have my snow boots, but I knew I had brought them. She told Flynn to call my Dad on her phone, so he did, and my Dad answered and said "Oh yeah I think their in my cars trunk." He was on his way to work, but he was nice enough to come back with them. I was so happy that I had got my snow  boots again!


Soon enough we were on the bus and rolling on the highway. Flynn and I were listening to music on our mp3 players. This kid sitting in the back of us, kept asking us if he could listen to a song. Sometimes he would grab our headphones of our head. We kept saying "Please stop." But we finally got there. We had to pick a partner to got snow tubing with. Me and this girl in the 4th grade decided to be partners. Everybody lined up to get their tags to clip on your coats.We finally got in line to go up to the mountain. When it was my turn I was very excited. He clipped me on this thing with my snow tube and it took me up to the mountain. When I reached the to top of the mountain I got to the shortest line I could find with my partner. Although they were all pretty long, but at least it would be a little shorter.


When it was my turn, I got in my tube and I went flying down the mountain!! It was so AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did a ton of times, and then it was time for lunch, so we went to the picnic tables and started eating our lunches. Yum! Yum! Yum! I had a lunchable. That was my first time on a mountain, and it was very FUN!!