I went shopping with my cousin Gaia 2 days ago. I had 50 Euros to spend and Gaia had an emergency 50 euros for me. I bought lots of stuff. Mum says I should write a sentence in Spanish about what I bought. Yo compré pantalones cortos morado y floreado y pantalones blanco, azul y floreado. Me gusta comprar con me prima Gaia.  I bought more suff like a green jumpsuit, an ammonite necklace and a treble clef necklace. We got home at 12:30am! It was really fun. Also that day we went to Altea and went to a chocolate cafe. We got 24 churros and chocolate to dip them in.

The clothes I bought

My ammonite necklace

Churros!

Gaia

My treble clef necklace

We are at the house in Spain with my family. We have gone snorkelling and I have seen an octopus! It is was cousin Tabitha's birthday yesterday. It is really hot and the sea is warm! I bought a mini bean bag snake called Cleo and Torin bought a mini bean bag frog called Stu (short for Stupid). Yesterday we all went to swim in a waterfall. There was a HUGE queue to get in and it was freezing! We've seen flamingos on a lake! There were lots of grey baby ones. I've seen lots of geckos and lizards and even some bats!

Stu and Cleo

Flamingos

Flamingos

We are in Spain and have left the campsite we were staying at with the Arnolds (our friends). I bought a fan and keyring as souvenirs. We have been going to the beach and snorkelling a lot. I’ve seen lots of fish that look dull but are shiny or have a really nice pattern. There was a diving board on a rock into the sea that I jumped off. I made a new friend called Daisy who was staying at the campsite. She is from England and is just going into yr 7. There was a pool at the camp that I went in. The first time I went in it 5 policemen came to close it! They said it was because there was too many chemicals in the pool. We have stayed in a camp in France with a Boulangerie van that stops at the village first. We got there first at the village and bought all the croissants and pain-au-chocolat. They were great.

My fan

My fan

My keyring

HEAPS has happened since the 8th of July! Here is a list of the best stuff that has happened:

• Walked up a mountain (Cadair Idris)
• Went to a mountain bike park
• Went to Bounce Below - safety nets in an old slate mine
• Went climbing on rocks
• Drove to Granny's other house
• Went to Art in Action
• Made felt flowers
• Saw our van for the first time!
• Went to Oxford - saw mum's college, Pitt rivers museum, Blackwell's book shop, Ben's cookies, River Isis!
• Granny's birthday - Met Alan (Cousin Gaia's boyfriend) 
• Go Ape - climbing course in the trees 
• Jump street - Trampolines + foam pit - I did my first flip
• Grandma + Grandad's golden wedding party
• Euro tunnel - Train under the sea
• Camping in France
• Learning to count to ten in french - Un, deux, trois, cat, sank (quatre, cinq) six, sept, wheat, nerf (huit neuf), dix.
• Aqualand - water park
• Tubing - on a rubber ring down a river

Bounce Below

Cadair Idris

Our van!

Go Ape

Jump street

The Anaconda at Aqualand

Tubing

                                           

I haven't written for a few days now. We are in Wales at Aforn Morfa, my Granny's holiday house. On the 4th was Nain's 100th. Gaia (my eldest cousin) gave me an elephant bracelet.

Nain liked how I have a Welsh middle name. On the 5th Granny drove us to Aforn Morfa and Gaia drove her sister Zoe. We climbed the waterfall by Aforn Morfa. On the 6th we woke Gaia and Zoe up at 11:00 by throwing paper airplanes at them. We went to the animalarium/zoo in Borth. We saw lots of animals including meerkats, a talking cockatoo and monkeys. I have decided that I need a pygmy marmoset.

Yesterday we walked to Barmouth and played on the 2p machines. They were really fun.  Gaia is leaving soon to her flat.

Today is the 4th of July and I am in North Wales for Nain's 100th birthday party. I am now sitting in mum and dad's room in the hotel. I haven't written a post for a couple of days now nor have I written my journal that much recently. On July the 2nd I woke up a 5:55 and got in the pool at 6:00. Later that day Lui, Nico, Torin and I made an iMovie using Lui's GoPro. We did lots of things around the property and then stuck them all together with some music. Here it is:

Lui is the one in the grey vest, Nico is the one with the blue shirt and Torin is the one in the black vest. After that we went for a walk to the green and walked back through fields of barley, wheat and spinach. Half way through it started to rain! On the third we woke up at 6:20 and were in the pool early too. Everyone went to Bury st. edmonds but I didn't go, I stayed with grandma and granddad. When the others were out, I put my hand in the fish pond and left it there for a while and the fish tried to eat it! The others came back for a while then they went for a walk town old town but Xanthe and I didn't go, we stayed with grandma and granddad again. We picked strawberries and decorated a flan with grandma. Today we got up at 7:00 (I think) and got ready to go. We drove for 2-3 hrs and got here and got changed then went downstairs to eat.

Sorry that I haven't emailed or done my blog for a while. We had internet at the hotel but it wouldn't let me access my emails or blog. Anyways, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much stuff has been going on. I am sitting on my mum's bed at my grandma's house writing this and not knowing where to start. So, I got on the plane and watched T.V. Then I watched more T.V. Then I went to sleep. Then I watched more T.V. Then I was almost sick. Then we landed. :-) Shanghai was so hot! I have got heaps of cool pics of stuff we saw. Our hotel was called the Astor House Hotel. We were on the 4th floor. It was really big and old. This is a picture of the ceiling in the lobby and the model boat in the lobby (110 cannons, I counted):

          

There were so many cool things in Shanghai. There was animal topiary, cool buildings, crazy driving and stuff like that. Here are some photos:

Oriental Pearl radio and T.V broadcasting tower 

Dolphin topiary

Egg statue thing

Fire hydrant

Mall sign

Curved escalators

Flower wall

Butterfly topiary

Squashed pig's face

Man with boxes on motor bike with no helmet

When we were taking photos of the flower wall, random Chinese people came up and asked to have photos with us! We tried lychees (a Chinese fruit) for the first time. I went on the Metro for the first time! The Metro is an underground train. Nico (who often says funny stuff) said something really funny before we got to the Metro. We said "We're going on the underground train" Nico said "Where is it?" We said "Underground!" On the way to the airport we got stuck in a non-moving traffic jam for an hour. We flew Virgin Atlantic to London and I have to say I like it more than New Zealand on Air. They had wifi but I didn't want to use it. On the way back from the airport we had some snacks including Hula Hoops! This is a picture of a Hula Hoops packet:

THEY ARE THE BEST THINGS IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we got to Grandma's we went in the pool with only our undies on!