VACATION!

Friday, the Red House Edamura's (including Kuro)  will be going on a VACATION!  The first VACATION of the year! Today, we went on a small trip to the dog store. Mr. Pups a Lot (aka Kuro) got a dog harness! Sir Pups (also Kuro) will be "sitting" (laying down) in the back seat, so we bought him a harness and a dog seat belt. 

We are Almost, Almost, Almost Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost, Almost   ready for our VACATION!

Short summary of the summer

During the summer, we went on many vacations. Before all the trips, we did two sets of swimming lessons. Now I am in level eight and Adam is in level nine. The first one was a trip to RockRidge Canyon. RockRidge Canyon was a great trip. There are so many things to do. There are the water activities and the dry land activities. After RockRidge Canyon, we dog-sited Kobe for four days. We told Kobe that while he was with us, he had to walk by our side, sit when he sees another dog or human, not bark at other beings, not eat leaves or sticks, and, not bite our hands or our feet. After about a month, we went on a house boat for five days. On the house boat we swam, played games, watched Apollo 13, and, we went on hikes. Once we had docked, Mom and dad filled the paperwork and we traveled to the United States of America to go camping for three days. In the campsite, I saw a cat! I was petting the cat until these boys came and scared it away.

Those sentences represent my typical summer.

Rockridge canyon

Saturday, August 1 (2015), me, my mom, my dad, and my brother went to a place in B.C. called Rockridge Canyon. Rockridge is closer to Princeton then Penticton. From Vancouver B.C, it takes about four hours to drive to Rockridge. Whall we were at Rockridge, we did some fun activities like going on the zip ling, and the blob. The zip line is the biggest zip line in B.C, and maybe even the biggest zip ling in Canada!

 The blob is a big cushion that you jump onto and then the next person jumps on the blob and the person siting on the blob either falls of the edge or goes flying in the air.

The blob

At Rockridge, we went water skiing and wake surfing. Water skiing is (as you can guess) skiing on water and wake surfing is surfing on the wakes made from the boat.

Wake sufing

Water skiing

 What I did with my friends, was we caught snakes. The snakes where water snakes and garter snakes (you can read more about the snakes in my next blog.)

Water snake

Garter snake

I had a great time at Rockridge Canyon this year.

Bike Adventures - 48 / 42 Km

Yesterday, me, my mom, my brother, my dad and my aunt went on a very long bike ride. The bike ride was about 48 maybe 42 Km! We spent 9 hours outside, but about 4 hours was spent on the bike. (first we watched some wheelchair tennis, then next long stop was at a restaurant, then at an ice-cream shop and then at home.) We went through the forest, on the burrard St bridge, on the lions gate bridge, to a beach, then to a Vietnamese restaurant, then to a tourist attraction and finally back home.
 I was sore after that (+ I was not on a tandem. I was on a normal bike with no help. OK, maybe on the hills I got a push or two from my parents...).  You get the idea. I was tired after that adventure.

Last Day of Swimming Lessons and lego movie

Today was the last day of swimming lessons, and guess what happened! I passed to swim kids 8!!! I will be doing another set of swimming lessons so maybe I will pass to swim kids 9.

Now that we have the Lego movie on the computer, I can send it to  you :

Tell me if you have problems, questions or comments on the very, very short Lego movie.

Swimming, Daily report

Today was my last day of swimming lessons with my normal teacher. Tomorrow there will be a substitute teacher and we will get our report cards. I hope that I will pass to swim kids 8 and do more swimming lessons so that maybe I will pass to swim kids 9. Wish me luck!!!


We are also planning to do a book club. The members of this book club are, me, Adam and Mom. The first book we will be talking about is The Witch's boy. We will talk about what we liked about the book or any other opinions. Then we will give out questions to one another, and not just simple questions like a yes or no question, but a question like : Why do you think that the two kingdoms got separated?

Then we will have snacks. Cookies, bread and jam (or honey). Then, later in the day, we might go on a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood to do things like : count all the stop sings from W 33 Ave to W 38 Ave, or, take a photo of every house that has the address 2862  from W 31 Ave to W41 Ave.

Thanks for reading my blog!

The short Lego Movie

Now that I am finally home, I can tell you about my day :

So, at 10:00 AM, we went to Kitsolano pool for our swimming lessons and then we went to Granville Island to get our canvas for the Opus art exhibition for kids. Here are a few photos of our previous years at the art exibition :
  
 

2014 (Adam's)

2013

2014 (mine/Dana's)

When we went home, I made instant noodles for me and Adam. Shortly after that, me and Adam decided to go swimming again at Kerrisdale pool just for fun and to practice our swimming. (Befor we left, me and Adam did our Daily Mile, Daily Smile)We got out of the pool at about 2:45 or maybe 2:50 so that we could go to the library before the Lego movie maker station is ready to have movie makers working on movies. My mom checked out the books we took out wile we where working on our movies and then she went to the bank. When we get the movie that we made, I can probably put it on my next blog.