One of the places I went this year was Tenerife in the canary islands. The place we stayed was a Melia resort which is the same kind of place like the one I LOVE in the Dominican Republic where we went for 9 years in a row. This place had a courtyard that was designed by the same exact person and it's smaller, but looks the same.
While I was in Tenerife I did some really fun things. One of them was ride on a segway. Mom said that normally they wouldn't let someone my age ride, but in places like Tenerife they don't have very strict rules about these things. They did make you practice and even gave you lessons going in and out of some cones and things before letting you out on the road and trail.
We went on a tour by the ocean with them. We wanted Nan to come but she didn't want to and in the end it was good that she didn't because we went along some very narrow trails by the edge of some cliffs and she would have definitely ended up in the ocean and mom would have had to pay for that segway.
I also did archery and actually did really good at it. There were some people we met at archery and one of them was called Nina. I went to archery almost every day and there were competitions and my team and I always did really well. Here are some pictures of me doing archery.
I also had a chance to go scuba diving for the very first time.
Mom even went with me and we had to squeeze into these really, really tight wet suits and I mean REALLY tight. The water was unbelievably cold and it was also very hard to see in some places.
Mom had gone scuba diving lots and lots of times before but for some reason she got a little freaked out and was thinking she didn't want to do it once she was out there, but the instructor told her she had to, so she did. We saw a big sea turtle and followed it, which was really awesome. The instructor said I did great.
Mom said I wouldnt usually be able to go scuba diving since I'm only 10, but I was lucky they let me because I really like it except that the tank weighed like a hundred pounds and felt like it was going to break my back until we got into the water. Mom said that Aunt Bear loves scuba diving and she especially likes to look for sharks...ha ha ha ha. Next time we go I'm going to ask Aunt Bear to go with me!!!
While I was in Tenerife I did some really fun things. One of them was ride on a segway. Mom said that normally they wouldn't let someone my age ride, but in places like Tenerife they don't have very strict rules about these things. They did make you practice and even gave you lessons going in and out of some cones and things before letting you out on the road and trail.
We went on a tour by the ocean with them. We wanted Nan to come but she didn't want to and in the end it was good that she didn't because we went along some very narrow trails by the edge of some cliffs and she would have definitely ended up in the ocean and mom would have had to pay for that segway.
I also did archery and actually did really good at it. There were some people we met at archery and one of them was called Nina. I went to archery almost every day and there were competitions and my team and I always did really well. Here are some pictures of me doing archery.
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| See my arrow? It's going straight for a the bull's eye! |
I also had a chance to go scuba diving for the very first time.
Mom even went with me and we had to squeeze into these really, really tight wet suits and I mean REALLY tight. The water was unbelievably cold and it was also very hard to see in some places. Mom had gone scuba diving lots and lots of times before but for some reason she got a little freaked out and was thinking she didn't want to do it once she was out there, but the instructor told her she had to, so she did. We saw a big sea turtle and followed it, which was really awesome. The instructor said I did great.
Mom said I wouldnt usually be able to go scuba diving since I'm only 10, but I was lucky they let me because I really like it except that the tank weighed like a hundred pounds and felt like it was going to break my back until we got into the water. Mom said that Aunt Bear loves scuba diving and she especially likes to look for sharks...ha ha ha ha. Next time we go I'm going to ask Aunt Bear to go with me!!!Here's what poor mom goes through every time she tries to take a picture of Nan and I...one of us is either talking or blinking or has their eyes closed or all 3...ha ha ha ha.
For Easter, I went back to the United States for Aunt Bear and Lauren's wedding. Here's my wedding outfit. Notice I actually have some hair here...that won't last.
This is me with Alyssa and Morgan and they're who I was escorting during the wedding and we had to dance down the aisle and back. We practiced our moves so that I was able to spin them both one at a time as we walked down the aisle. Notice I have significantly less hair...that's what happens when Mom let's JJ and I go to the Barbers without her.
That's me and my Aunt Bear and notice how we match. And here's mom and she has the thing around her neck and don't even ask how many stores she dragged me through so we could find a shirt to match and when you look at it you can't even see the darn shirt under that thing can you???
For the first song it was watch me whip and I really like that song. We had practiced in their kitchen with Scuzzle, and I'm not sure they got much better, well, they got a little bit better at the wedding when they did it.
They even had smores there which were the best idea ever but the kids kept on throwing paper into the fire and it was floating up into the air on the wind and we were afraid some of the pieces that were floating in the air might light the roof on fire and that would have been a terrible way to end the wedding.
They also had a really old piano and I had a chance to play some songs on it and even though I was not supposed to interfere with the paid entertainment, there were still a lot of people who kept asking me to play. Luckily Aunt Bear never gets mad at me for anything...well, except maybe for not knowing how to sweep. Don't ask...
We had a great time that night because everyone was there. Even Nan, JJ, Yummy and even Sunshine Mary was there!!!
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