Interesting Facts

In Alexandria, Egypt, underwater scientists found Queen Cleopatra's palace sunken below the water's surface. About 1600 years ago her palace was on land, but because of earthquakes and tidal waves, it slipped into the sea.

On December 11, 2004 five million people joined hands to cross from Teknaf to Tentulia, Bangladesh. The chain stretched for 652 miles. It's the longest human chain to date.

Cats usually live 9-15 years, but Creme Puff, a cat from Texas, celebrated her 38th birthday!

The ancient Egyptians knew how to have a good time! For fun, they played a game similar to bowling. They set up large rocks as pins and used a smaller rock to knock them down.

Before the invention of chewing gum, people used to gnaw on sap from trees. Thankfully, in 1848 the first chewing gum was introduced. The flavor was Spruce tree. Later, different flavors were added.

The makers of Super Glue proved their product was the strongest during a radio show contest. To prove its strength, they glued a car to a crane and lifted it into the air. The glue held and the car didn't fall.

It takes 165 years for Neptune to complete a rotation around the sun. In 2010 Neptune will complete it's first trip around the sun since it was discovered in 1846.

In 2005, the city of Las Vegas celebrated its 100th birthday with a huge birthday cake. The cake weighed 130,000 pounds.

Throughout history there have been accounts of frogs falling from the sky like rain. This happens when a strong wind sweeps across a lake or pond, picks up frogs, carries them away and drops them in a new place.

Try to tickle yourself

Have you ever wondered why you can't tickle yourself?

Laughter is the body's way of defending itself against a tickle that might hurt or make you feel uncomfortable. But when you try to tickle yourself your brain knows that there's no threat.

Cool, huh?

Victorian Christmas

I got to go to the Victorian Christmas with my mom, sister, Aunt Juliet and Aunt Derrinda, and my cousins Elijah, Brandon and Kingston. Grandma was going to go with us but she had to go to the hospital all day instead. We had to wait in the waiting room because kids under 12 years old were not allowed in there. I hope Grandma will get to go with us next year because it is lots of fun. I took Kingston on the Christmas train. He had so much fun and so did I.

Happy Thanksgiving 2009

I helped make all the homemade crust for the pies yesterday. We made 12 pies. This is the cherry pie I made.

I also helped to make the fruit salad today.

It was a fun day. We had Thanksgiving at my grandma and grandpa's house. I played with my cousin Kingston a lot.

We ate lots of yummy food. My favorite was the fruit salad and I especially liked the rolls and turkey.

I have lots to be thankful for. I am grateful for all my blessings.

We even had an adventure because our van wouldn't work and grandpa let us use his truck to come home tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Student of the Month

I was chosen to be student of the month from my class at school today.

The Fair

We got to go to the Fair 3 times this year. It was so much fun!!!!!!!
I am milking the cow.

I got to go on some fun rides at the fair. Richie and I went on a mouse rollercoaster. This is me on the hang glider ride. It was fun. I liked watching the guy hypnotize the people and watching them do silly things.

bad news or good news

The good news school started today. The bad news is I almost got killed. Why you ask? We were on the orting trail tonight and some guy almost ran me over. He was riding a bike very fast and then the chain broke so he couldn't stop because the brakes weren't working and he was trying to stop the bike by dragging his feet but that wasn't working and he was still coming right at me really fast. Super Mom pulled me off the trail and out of the way just in time before he came right where I was.