We were staying at a big house, owned by my moms' friend and fiance. Downstairs in the basement there are video games that you usually have to pay for, but since they own them it's free! It's fantastic. My favorite is called "Big Buck Hunter." How you play is, you pick a region, the north, south, east, midwest, or west. Then you start at one place and pick which site you want to do. There are four places, and each place has five sites. Each site has three bucks and obviously you try to shoot them. However, you try not to shoot the does. It is hard, but fun, even though it's not a good sport (unless you really need it for food and clothing to survive).
That was definitely not the best part of the trip, though. I am not sure what the best part of our vacation was, but part of it was seeing old friends.
The first day we saw our old friends Molly and Sam. Sam is Brandon's best friend. He was so glad to see him, and I was glad to see Molly too. We actually saw them several times during our trip, and did a bunch of activities with them. One of which included going to Borders to wait for the last Harry Potter book to come out. While we waited, we were both reading a cool book. It wasn't that bad, but only because we had those books. They were really interesting. Finally the book came out! But still we had to wait a couple hours to get our copies. I wasn't buying a copy, my mom was just picking it up for our friend. We were up till past two in the morning! I was really tired. But I didn't care. It was fun. They are really good friends to have.I don't have any best friends in Vermont, or maybe I have a lot of best friends. Anyway, I love them all equally and feel the need to name every one I ever became close to. I will tell which ones I did see when I went there.
Madeleine (saw her!)
Molly (saw her!)
Clara (didn't see her, she was on vacation somewhere else.) :-(
Vicky (saw her!)
Hannah (saw her!)
Paige (saw her!)
Seirra (never got to play with her much; she always lived pretty far away from me. But she is still a good friend, and I got to see her!)
So, as you can see I got to see quite a few of the people I wanted to see! There were a couple other people, but oh well.
So, I repeat, I saw Molly the first day, again on the second day, then on Saturday we went to North Beach to see our old neighbors, Madeleine and Michael. We made this fantastic sand castle; I'll describe it. There were three pools, my pool, Madeleine and Michael's pool, and the main pool. When we first made it we poured water into the main pool and it trickled down to the other pools. But then I had an idea to make a big pile of sand and make it into a volcano. So we did. Madeleine and I dug it out and then poured water down the hole, into the main pit, then it went to the other pools. It was really cool.
After playing with Madeleine, my friend Paige was hosting a Harry Potter party. Since I was in town, they invited me over. It was FANTASTIC!!!!!! First we got sorted into either Griffindor or Slytherin. We played a couple good, long games of Quiddich, and by the end of it everyone was sweating their heads off. So we hopped in the pool. The pool was freezing! So I hung out shivering in the sun, eating chips till we went inside. I wasn't the only one who was cold, a bunch of the girls were, for it was a cool pool.Slowly everyone went home, one by one. Soon I was the last one left. My mom picked me up really late because she was at a concert. But all the better. Paige and I had a good time. Her sister, Alana (I honestly don't know how to spell it) gave me this Harry Potter notebook that she never even wrote in. I really like it! It comes with all sorts of Harry Potterish Stickers. I have already written and drawn a lot in it.
So I had a great time there. But there was more!
On Sunday we woke up and went to church. We got there late, but it didn't really matter. I went in a class with some people I used to know, some that I like and some I don't really. Afterwords, I played around with my old friends a bit, and then we left. We wanted to play together more, but I had to leave. We had planned to visit some other people that afternoon.
On Monday, Brandon and I had planned play dates with our friends. First, I played with Hannah in the morning, then we went to the library. At the library, I saw one of our old really nice librarians. Her name is Pam. I wish I could have seen Hannah the librarian too, but she wasn't there. After that Hannah and I went to Vicky's. It was really fun. We played a fairy game that was really fun.
Vicky is my number one pen pal. She always answers my letters, and I always answer hers. But it was good to catch up with her without writing. I wish we could see each other more often, because she is a really good friend. I am very glad I could see her there.
Tuesday we went to my old singing lessons teachers house. They were playing Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows on tape. I couldn't help but listen. I won't say anything about it except that it's a good story. Anyway, I have read the whole book now.
Wednesday we were trying to figure out what to do, and mostly just stayed at the house all day. But later we went to Airport Park to meet Madeleine and Michael again, and Madeleine and I went to the bog to pick blueberries. They were perfectly ripe. We got as much as we could carry then went back and gave them to the others. Went back with Brandon and Michael so they could help us. It was fun! We got a ton of berries. They are delicious.
I went swimming a lot when I was there. The house we were staying at had a jacuzzi and a pool, though the pool was very cold. That is how I got over my fear of cold water.
I made myself jump in and moved around a lot so I could stay warm. I know that's how almost all people do it, but I just couldn't make myself stay in before. I just hope that I can do the same for most pools, because obviously some are cooler than others. But for now I'll just say that I am proud of myself.
So, that was pretty much our whole trip. It was FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!
