Sleep Over With my Cousins

My cousins are here tonight to have a sleepover. Their names are Ruby and Maggie. We had a day full of shopping in Legacy Place and we went bowling at Ron's. We had a great time. It's nice to have cousins over when you don't get to seen them that much. We played this game called Apples to Apples. We were laughing SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well we have been laughing so hard all day. When we went to the stores in legacy place we got at least 1 thing per person, so in all we really went all out. We went to Ron's which is a bowling alley in Hyde Park, and they have ice cream there too. The firsts round of bowling Ruby won, and the second round I won. And both times Maggie came in second. Ruby and Maggie and I all said that ron's ice cream is mad good. And we played on our electronic devices some of the day.

Patriots Parade on Boylston St.

Last Wednesday

I went with my dad and my brother to the Patriots Parade in Boston. Boy, was it FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You were frost-bound. It felt like a hundred below zero (in my perspective).

We took the train in and it was packed with pats fans. Only us 3 and 2 other people made it onto the train, the rest of the people who had been waiting on the platform were told to wait for the next train! The seats were filled and the aisles were filled.

When we were walking towards Boylston St., we got interviewed by NECN. The gentleman asked us 2 questions, and I thought we answered them well, but I guess they were looking for rowdy loud fans to be on tv once we had watched the video. Kind of disappointing, because I do want to be on tv.  It was 9:30 am by then, and surprisingly there were not much people standing behind the gates, so we found a really good spot.

My toes started numbing up and felling raw, so about an hour or 30 minutes later right as City Sports opened my dad ran to the store and got hand warmers and toe warmers so that we wouldn't feel like our feet or hands were about to freeze off. Dad was our savior when he did that, because  I bet I couldn't stay that long without something warming up my feet and toes. We had to wait like 2 hours maybe even 3 hours for the parade to "start" BUT, the patriots were 40 minutes late!!! So, we had to stay in the cold for 40 more minutes!!

Across the street in a building there was this flexibility room called "The Genius of Flexibility" and there was this guy stretching in the window and looking out the window, and the three of us just said and thought "I wish I was warm in that room getting smoothies and stretching and have a relaxed time, and my dad said "Next time we come here, we should book ourselves a spot at The Genius of Flexibility."

People kept screaming, and we thought the first duck boat would be coming by, but then it would always be a police car. Seriously people, c'mon, its a police car!

But finally, the first duck boat came with Tom Brady, but he was on the other side of the boat, so we saw Jimmy Garapolo. I'm only going to tell the major patriots.

We saw Julian Edelman he was very cool. He was on top of the duck boat sitting and he had two signs: one that had Richard Sherman about to cry at the end of the game when it got intercepted, and remember when they scored because Derell Revis couldn't get there on time, well Derell Revis is number 24, and the score was 24 for them he held up his fingers saying 2 4, so when he held up four, and we won our fourth super bowl, it was clever to make a sign like that.

OH YEAH, WE SAW GRONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He had a bouquet of flowers, so, my theory was that someone gave him the bouquet. And, get this, he was tossing the flowers out to ladies. I love his kid like smile!

We also saw Malcolm Butler WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't think it was him but then I was like oh its butler! #HERO. Then I started screaming a lot.

I also saw Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick, and I swear Bill Belichick looked me in the eye. I swear!

I also saw Stephen Gostkowski (our AMAZING kicker) who has kicked field goals our whole season, and who has not let their toe get numb during the cold.

Then, I saw these 3 guys, one was Lagereate Blount, and there was 2 other guys. on the music box, being patriots swag.

A lot of people were there and it was so pats nation WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#patsarebeast

Super Bowl 49

So there was a very intense game last night. Lets call it "Super Bowl 49"
Yesterday I went to  my cousins house to watch the super bowl: Patriots vs. Seahawks. Now, this was a HUGE game. We almost made it 7-0 us, but Gronk couldn't catch the long throw into the endzone  that Brad had thrown. But after a few more first downs we were like 10 yards away from getting a touchdown, and Brady passed it to Brandon LaFell and we scored. So it made it 7-0 us.  Both teams scored more, and at halftime it was 14-14. The halftime show was good. I think Katy Perry is a good singer a did a phenomenal job at halftime. I really liked the song firework because she was standing on this shooting star thing that arose high up into the air, and then it lit up and was shooting sparks out the end of it. All of her performances that went with her songs were very creative. She did better than I thought. When they returned back to the football game, they kept fighting though Seattle scored another touchdown to make the score turn 24-14 Seahawks, and right then I got this feeling like "oh, this is going to be a long and hard game". But then Edelman faked out the defender the other way and almost got a touchdown, but Brady threw it too high. Remember brady, Edelman is 5-10. Next play though they hike it, fake run it, and Brady passes it right in the middle to Amendola for the TOUCHDOWN!!! YAY! That made the score 21-24 for the field goal was good. When the Seahawks had the ball after us, they didn't push hard enough to get a touchdown, so then it became our ball again. NOTE: I skipped some points. After some first downs, we were really close, and then Brady passed it to Edelman for the touchdown. It made the score 28-24 pats. When the Seahawks got the ball, Russel Wilson did a long long throw, and everybody thought that our guy blocked it, but it never touched the ground, and they recovered it. It was so nerve-racking to see that play. Next thing you know, they run the ball to Marshawn Lynch, and he was a half of a yard from the touchdown line. This was definitely the last play of the game, and my whole cousins house was groaning. OH NO! Next play Rusell Wilson passes the football to his teammate Lockette, and MALCOLM BUTLER INTERCEPTS THE BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PATRIOTS WON SUPER BOWL 49!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS THE PLAY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Malcolm Butler was almost going to be let off the team because he wasn't showing that he was good, but he earned he spot back. and I think he is going to be a big help in the upcoming seasons.

Sledding at Dedham Country Day School with my friend

Today my friend Sarah and I went sledding behind a school. The hills were pretty big, and soon we discovered another bigger hill. We had to buy tubes because we were one sled short. When we arrived at the hills we started using the sleds we brought, and then my dad blew up one tube so that we could use it. We sighted our friends Amanda, Ally, and Nora, and we played with the tube, although, but sometimes we disagreed on who should go first, and how many people should go in the tube at once. We went down the hill different ways. Soon after, my dad had another tube that he blew up. So then it made it easier to share it. Me, Amanda, and my other friend Sarah, went down the hill, and we made a chain with our tubes. Amanda and Sarah were in one tube, and I was in the other tube.  When you make a chain it means you hold onto each others snow tube handles, and go down the hill. When we were about to go down the hill, we noticed Ally and Nora just talking at the bottom of the hill, where our tubes were headed. We sledded/snow tubed down the hill about a million times. It got tiring walking up the hill every time after we had gone down the hill. It also made it hard to walk back up the because the snow was so deep. Then, Ally, Nora, and Amanda had to leave, and Sarah and I noticed a  big hill, and it was like two hill put together. Unfortunately, we could only go on that hill once and then we had to leave.

BLIZZARD IS STILL DANGEROUS

 

BLIZZARD IS STILL DANGEROUS

BY:NUALA RODGERS (REPORTING FROM DEDHAM)

The blizzard is still dangerous to drive in. I wouldn't recommend skiing, snowboarding, tubing in this weather because the gusts of winds are really blowing hard, and the snow is hard with the wind. In Dedham there is about 2 feet of snow. I was trying to shovel a little path to get out of my driveway, and boy, was that snow thick! I wasn't wearing my snow pants at first, but then, when I stepped in it felt like quicksand like I was sinking in, there was so much snow! But what's kind of frustrating is when you shovel, the winds are going to keep blowing, and soon, the snow will be right where it was before. A few hours after, I went back out. I was out there for about 3 hours, helping my neighbor, trying to sled, (but didn't success)and trying to make a snow house (not successful either)while my dad was using our snow blower snow blowing the driveway. NOTE: THE SNOW DRIFTS ARE BAD. I could barely move the snow was higher than my waist! Seriously! When you try to shovel sometimes its irritating because when you are trying to shovel one way, the snow blows on the back of your coat and it crackles, and if you are faced the other way, it blows in your face. My friends on the reporter team have to stay in the cold, and report for people watching the news, and I feel kind of bad for them because they have to stay in the cold standing and talking. And when your standing, you really FREEZE TO DEATH in this snowing weather. In some places in Massachusetts, the snow keeps escalating and increasing. Well, I'll be reporting some more later!!

THE DEDHAM TIMES: FULL REPORT ON THE BLIZZARD

   BREAKING NEWS: BLIZZARD OF 2015

       BY: NUALA RODGERS (REPORTING FROM DEDHAM)

    Blizzard of 2015 is really going
   to come down hard. Make sure you
   did all of your grocery shopping,

   DEDHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: CLOSED
   OFFICALLY. Power might go out
   so make sure you have your batteries
       in your lanterns and they're ready
   to go. Most stores have their
   lanterns sold out, so the best
   thing that would work if you
   don't have lanterns would be to
   light candles. And if you can't
   live without your mobile device,
   you better charge it and savor it
   just for the important things like
   watching CHANNEL 5 on your phone,
   or the radar. Tomorrow would be an
   unsafe day to go snowboarding, skiing, tubing, (etc.)because the
   weather is going to be bad, and its unsafe to go skiing in a
   blizzard. But, definitely Wednesday is okay to be doing snow
   activities because the blizzard won't be going on, but there 
   will be a whole lot of snow! It will also be unsafe to drive
   in your car places because it will be very snowy, slushy, and it
   will be hard to drive because there will be thick snow hard to 
   move, and if you don't wipe off your car that would be dangerous
   too. So, only if it is a real emergency, don't drive places with
   your car. There will be full report on the blizzard 24-7, so stay
   tuned!!

My New T.V. Obsession: The Middle

So, ever since my favorite TV show Good Luck Charlie stopped producing new episodes, I was just trying to browse Disney Channel but, there weren't a lot of good TV shows. Well, a couple months later my mom started watching this show called The Middle. At first I said "Nah, this isn't going to be good." That is NOT true anymore now that it is my favorite show. So when my mom kept watching it, I started watching it. And now I LOVE it.


Its about this family that usually get into funny problems, and you don't even know how many laughs my family gets. But, when you watch it, you can relate to it very good because its like the regular family. Sue (the big sister) goes to her first boy party, Axl, (big brother one year older than Sue) is with his friends trying to be mean to Sue to be cool in front of his friends, and Brick, (fifth grader, youngest sibling) kind of nerd-type, always wandering to different places, if you watch it, you'll totally relate to what I'm saying. I highly recommend it. Sue is the main character, and she is very funny, and she sometimes tries to do something, and when the subject isn't that good, she pretty much fails.

Well, I don't want to give it all away, but you can check it out on ABC family. Again, you'll get a lot of laughs out of it, and you will relate to it a lot. Check it out!😃