A Summary of The Americas

This is going to be my last blog from the Americas so it is going to be a summary of the best and funniest parts so far!

The three funniest things are:(3)Charles in Nicaragua when we had a night of musical farts, we had some food that night came back to go to bed and then that's when the farts started to happen, Charles unleashed about seven at once then we all started to do them. It was Mums worst night so far easily, I was laughing my head off the whole time it was so funny.

(2) Yesterday we went to the centre of town to go and get some food, there was loads of street entertainment that day. One of the entertainers was a comedian that had drawn a big crowd. We stopped to have a look but then he pulled Will into the circle with him, he started asking Will where he was from and who he was with. He said us and then me and Mum started cracking up so much.

(1) The ultimate funniest thing so far is Will's meals. Every time we go out for a meal even if it is a really posh restaurant I always pick the best thing on the menu, Mum usually picks an alright meal, but Will on the other hand has to go for the most disgusting meal ever, the worst one so far was in Nazca Peru, he had chicken with a sort of mango, orange, apple flavour to it, it was horrible.

So then now you have heard the funniest thing so far, its time for the best thing yet and without a doubt it goes to Peru, it is something that I haven't put about in my blog so far. Here it is.

In Nazca you could go on tours that would take you to different places, the one that we picked was called San Fernando. Basically first they take you for an hour trip into the desert, then find a great place to sand board. Me and Mum went to a smaller sand dune and boarded down that and Will tried to conquer the larger of the two. It was actually "really" difficult. I thought it would be easier and safer than surfing but I was very wrong indeed, every time you fell off you pulled the skin in your bum, and Will came back with a massive pink scrape on his butt.

After sand boarding we went to a remote bit of an Island, there was the best wildlife I had ever seen . We got out of the car expecting nothing, but then four gigantic Condors came marching through the sky. We followed them up the hill only to see thousands of penguins, sea lions and vultures, it was the best thing ever.

So there it is, my best and funniest things so far. Here is a picture to show you how amazing they were. Tomorrow were going too New Zealand, we lose two days apparently, hope everyone is fine. Jasper and Sam B GET ON SKYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Grandma Lin and Grandad Phil.

A lot to tell you

Hi everyone sorry I haven't posted in so long, so today's going to be a longish one!

Anyway so, the other day we were in Ollantytambo Peru, we were up there because we were going too see the Machu Piccchu our hotel was called (Apu lodge) I know a poo lodge, but it was actually named after a Peruvian sacred mountain. It was actually a lot more like I thought South /Central America would be like because it was a lot more traditional than some of the other places we have been, there was dancing in the square every night. One night the singing was so bad I couldn't even get to sleep properly it was horrible and then the next day we had to go to the Machu Picchu. One thing that i found suprising when we were on the train because I thought the Incas were around the time of BC but actually they were only from the 1400. We were about halfway up, the one side was pretty much a sheer cliff face so obviously Will was a little bit freaked out, but then out of nowhere the outlines of the ruins showed up, it looked like a massive kingdom. When we went to the entrance gate and peered inside it looked so much bigger than you see in the pics, it is quite scary really. So first it was my ingenious idea to walk up the stairs and go see the hut, at the top we found a load of Alpacas they looked so cool but very woolly. Then we found a spot too have lunch, mine was horrible. We walked around for a bit saw some amazing stone work, and the sun gods throne ( also looking out for Condors). There was a sacred rock there, more of a mountain in my opinion but we did not have enough time to go up there .Before we got back to the bus we saw a spring of water running down the kingdom it was very suprising to see water running from the top of a mountain. But anyway I don't want to keep ranting away, well actually everyone's playing cards so I really want to join in.

Hope you are all fine, we are all good, staying in a lovely hotel got a lush pool.

I'll write again soon bye for now.

something amazing...

Last Friday we had a 'something' while we were eating dinner, we had just ordered our food when it happened. The odd thing was, before it happened my Mum went all cold and had goose bumps all up her arms, then she thought she was going to pass out, she also said to Will, 'stop rocking the table,' which we all thought was an odd thing to say because Will clearly had his hands on his knees. Then everything started to sway. Everyone felt dizzy but then it stopped. One of the waiters turned on the tv, put the news on and midway through their speech the whole newsroom started shaking. The next day we went to a cafe, we asked one of the waitresses, 'do you know how powerful the something was yesterday?' She said that it was about 5.9, it was actually a pretty big earthquake! so, anyway I wanted a bigger one but it was still pretty amazing.

I've actually been getting into all the Harry Potters so today I'm going to download them all onto my Ipod. Check out my picture above.

hope you are all good, we're fine chow chow!

OAP

Happy Birthday OAP (Grandad Billyboy)

The Boat Trip

Today we did the best boat trip ever, it was amazing, we set off at the river mouth and headed deeper into the river. We started off hugging the mangrove tree's and then we saw it, we saw the thing that we were waiting to see the most. A crocodile. Only a baby but it was still very fascinating, we could only see part of it's head and back but it was still amazing though. We also saw a few rare tropical birds, one of them was a blue heron they looked amazing. I read on the tinternet that they stop in shallow water, then stab their prey in the back with their beak. We also saw a king fisher, it looked like it had some kind of spikes on the top of it's head, and it had very sharp and agile movements, it looked amazing. Then we started to go down some narrow parts of the river, that was when we saw about four crocodiles, one of them was quite large, but then the guide spotted a tiny crocodile, it was half in the murky water and half out, we were all amazed how the guide had even spotted it. It was the size of a puppy, no joke, we were nearly back. But then we saw a massive crock on the side, it had it's jaw wide open as some kind of territory threat.

But anyway hope you are all okay, tomorrow we are renting a small 4x4 and heading down to Santa Teresa, anyway chow chow!

I hope your not getting bored....yet

Last Saturday we left Nicaragua, and set of for Costa Rica. But the journey was terrible, it was fun just very scary. That day it had been raining like a monsoon, so that meant that all of the rivers were flooded and were still flooding too, we came to our first river that looked terrible, it was flowing quite fast, it was deep and very wide. Even the Nicaraguans were pooping themselves. Our driver was like, 'we just have to go for it', so we did, it was pretty much plain sailing when we went through the river, when we got to the other side we had to wait for the truck behind, but they sailed through too. Then we came to a turning, a guy called Felipe got out and said, if we go right their might be a massive hole in the road. So we headed left, but that was are big mistake. We came to a very fast running, very very wide and also very very very deep river. It looked fine to start with then everyone got out, it was still raining, everyone thought it could be very deep, then our driver tested how deep it was. Obviously it was, well, you know, deep! Our driver got back in and Charles said to him, 'your boss looks like a drowned rat!' Then he told us that we were going to reverse through it, we all stopped laughing so we went for it, and sure enough it was deep, but surprisingly it wasn't deep for very long and then we made it through it all, and arrived at Tamarindo.

Barrel

Yesterday I had one of the best surfs of my whole entire life. It was amazing, the sea was rough (bumpy) but some of the waves coming through were glassy, on one of the waves I saw a little barrel peeling but then it closed out. So my aim for the surf was to get an amazing wave that maybe would have a little barrel. There were a few perfect waves for me but most of them were doublers because of the choppy sea, on one wave I jumped up perfectly, it was a close out but I thought I might have had enough speed to get in the point break barrel in front of me, but I was a little bit too slow, the white water broke right on the side of my board, the board whipped away from my feet and I tumbled into the white water. The white water threw me left right and centre, then finally I popped up!

Also the other day Will's brother Charles turned up, we were all in the sea and Charles dived under one of the waves, when he popped up Me and Will looked back, we saw him and he looked just like Jesus, or even better the Messiah. We all started laughing lots.

We are having the best of times, hope you are all feeling well... hip hip chow for now!

adult stuff

This post is about...... !!!HOW WEIRD GROWN-UP ARE!!!

So we were walking back from the restaurant when I said, "I think that maybe we should try out the other hotel down the road that the other day we had looked in." Then Will said, "I feel a little embarrassed to go back there after turning them down,""Why?" I said. Then my Mum murmured "Well....".

"Adult stuff, just plain and simple adult business!" I shouted. Then Mum and Will laughed. Any kid reading this promise me that you won't go on Holiday with an adult for three or more weeks, I'm telling you they're nightmares,.

Chicken Buses

On Monday Me, Mum and Will went on a chicken bus for the first time, it was actually a lot better than I had expected because their was much more people on it. It was just so crowded I was squashed up into a tiny little corner, but every one is so small in South America they can fit perfectly. They had a bag rail that did not even get as high as my chin, but the lady that was before me fit under there perfectly.

The outside of the Buses were so decorative they look amazing, also they all have their own number on top, our one was number 107. And the Buses did not stop at a certain place, you had to whistle as loud as you could for them to stop, then they would stop and you would jump out!

As you can see on this picture they are old school buses.

When we first got on the Bus there were loads of people selling food like crisps, sweets, and drinks. Because it was so crowded they were walking right through the middle and everyone got out of their way because they had such big baskets, so it was even more crushed in there, but in the end they jumped off the back.

I would much prefer to have Chicken Buses in England because they are way cooler.

More posts coming soon

Hi everyone, thanks for checking Sam's blog, his schooling starts properly on Friday so from then on you should get a full and frank update every few days. Just so you know he is having a fab time surfing every day, playing table tennis, cards and meeting Americans, Dutch and Japanese people... all lovely.

So I promise he will be updating more frequently soon - and he loves to get your comments.

(Lynne - I didn't get your skype request try again to ruth.morris29 or send me your skye name)

Love to all

Ruth xx

El Salvador

we are in El Salvador girl apart from it doesn't quite work with this saying ,anyway i'm having a great time here it is amazing and also I had my first surf here on my new board, i'm not to great on it compared to my blue board. Today we went swimming at this nearby outdoor sport centre, it is an hour drive to the beaches and last weekend there was a massive storm witch washed up mountains of pebbles so it is very hard to walk to where we wanted especially at high tide.

I'm In Miami Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fguu3ooSS2Qin Miami I have seen some of the best cars of my life, 5 Lamborghini, 6 Ferrari ,a dozen hummers and a Bentley.

When we got to Miami airport Mum and Will had to have their finger prints scanned and they had a photo of their eyeball taken but I'm not sure why. Also last night I had an amazing steak it was one of the best steaks I have ever had. The sea is so warm and it is like 40 degrees every day!

Dominic Gill

On Tusday Me Mum and Will went to go and see Dominic Gill who was a bike rider and rode from the tip of Alaska all the way down to Argentina.

He went on a tandem picking up strangers along the way, one of his rules was to never say no to anyone who wanted to get on the bike and ride with him.And out of all the people he met only one tried to kill him with a machettie which in my eyes is pretty good. It took him two years and two months to complete the challange, he was very funny nice and intresting

Injections

On Monday I went to go and get my injections, I had tetanus and hep A/hep B. The most painful of the two was the hep's, it was so much fluid I was laughing and screaming at the same time but the tetanus one was fine I could hardly feel anything at all.

My Mum had to have five, I was unlucky because my Mum did not faint, I was so disappointed. Soon we have to go back again to get another lot, alot more this time and knowing Will he will scream the place down.

We have to have three rabies injections each, one yellow fever jab and we also need malaria tablets so that is quite alot but it's worth it definatley!!!!!!.....#####.

2010

This is the new year, it's also the year we go on the biggest trip ever!
I'm also feeling very nervous and excited. I am nervous because i'm going to miss my friends and family but i am excited because it will be a good experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will's very brief introduction

I am Will and I'm working hard at the moment to fund the Biggest Trip Ever... Please send me donations to help! I am most looking forward to departing, relaxing in the sun and surf and watching Sam get wiped out!