App ratings!

This is a list of game apps I have played and enjoyed recently.
These are only for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (although some might be available on other devices), in no particular order:

Wind tunnel  (draw shapes and put them in a wind tunnel and see how much lift and drag they create and how the wind affects it, no motion apart from the air and smoke, and there is pressure control and speed control, it's cool)          awesome
Max damage           good
Flight Control         good
Monopoly               OK
Cut the rope           good
Reckless Getaway  good
Bike Rider              OK
Plasma globe*        fair
MX Mayhem          good
Dynamite XL*        fair
Angry Birds   (everyone knows what that is)        awesome
Angry Birds Seasons  (a remake, still as good, same birds) awesome
Bricky Free*           OK
Glo Draw*             OK
Minions Mania      OK
Bloons TD4   (just like the online version,  good strategy game, defend your balloon village with dart towers, tacks and laser vision)      awesome
Bloons Super Monkey  excellent
Mars XPLR          good
Doodle Jump, HOP The Movie* OK
Haunted Roller Coaster Rush    good
UNO       (Just like the card game!)             awesome
Gun Builder  (build and customise guns and test their accuracy, good sound effects)       awesome
Top Gear Stunt School  (very realistic, get to blow up cars, put fans on make them fly, awesome music)
                     awesome
Eden    (this is a game like Minecraft, run and around and make stuff like buildings and pirate ships, and blow stuff up with TNT)   @             excellent
Ben the Talking Dog*   good
Harry the Talking Hedgehog     OK
Talking Tomcat* (1 and 2)   good
Rotate and roll   (puzzle game, just like the online version except you tilt your device)   excellent
Happy Park*         OK
Rail maze*  @          good
Tiny Tower*(this is a game were you own a tower and add shops to get more money and stock food and        
employ staff!                    OVER AWESOME!


these are screen shots of tiny tower
*free (some have free lite versions but these are usually bad)
@ Andrew's favourite games

guide to ratings:
fair = not very good, disappointing, would delete but not bothered to
OK = fun for a week
good = tell your friends
excellent = very fun
awesome = you will go crazy
OVER AWESOME = mum is angry and threatens to take device away!

Michael

holiday in a holiday

Hi, I am back from our holiday in British Columbia (it's not actually British!). Here are some of the highlights for me:
We were at the beach in Sicamous and I saw a helicopter take off about 15 metres away! It was very cool, especially seeing the jet engine's exhaust pipe. When I say beach, it was actually on a huge lake. There was a swing bridge for the very frequent cargo trains and all the houseboats for hire (not on the bridge). At Sicamous there were also boxes of fireworks for purchase at a corner shop! They cost $50 each and you could only set them off on private land. On the way there were a lot of corn fields and on the way to Kelowna there were lots of red barns.
In Kelowna there was a man-made salmon breeding (spawning) creek for the salmon to lay and fertilise their eggs. All the salmon come from the Pacific Ocean and only the strongest make it here. They are called Kokanee salmon.  The special channel has rocks of just the right size for the eggs to sit in, has the right amount of water flow and is clean, compared to the main creek, which is degraded and polluted. All the postcards say 'salmon this', 'salmon that' 'I love the fishing here'.
In the mountains we went for a hike in the rain and found Little Lost Lake. On another hike to Kinney Lake, there was tons of mushrooms of different shapes and colours - brown, pink and white, but mostly brown.
Most of the hotels had watersides and breakfast rooms with delicious waffle makers. But the wi-fi in all the hotels was pretty bad :-( The best waterslide was open (not a tunnel) and fast and you could go on your knees. The beaches were just like the ocean, even with little waves made by the speedboats, pretty cold and with sand you could make sandcastles with, except the water was not salty.

                                                           bye for now! - Michael

summer camp and air rifle

In the summer  holidays I have been doing summer camp (it's not a real camp because there is no staying overnight or tents). The camp I did this week was called Virtual Discoveries and they show you computer programs and how to use them. Phun and Sandbox are my favourites, Phun is where you create designs and machines in 2D and test them and Sandbox is where you create a virtual 3D world and test it out. I can't  download either onto the mac, which is a shame because I like them both and I want to play them at home. I thought the camp was really fun but it only lasted a week. 
There was another camp which wasn't quite as much fun as the computer camp, but still good. That camp was a gym and circus camp (which went for a week). We did lots of gym stuff, like climbing ropes and balancing, and juggling using scarves. There were also circus skills, such as miming. The best thing was the tumble track, which is a big long trampoline with no fence, it is used to do cart-wheels for beginners. I used the tumble track to run extra-fast and jump into the foam pit.
Today I used an air rifle in a firing range! I got 3/7 bullseyes  at 15 feet! It may sound bad but the gun is very heavy and shaky, Still, It was very fun! I did it at Fort Edmonton Park which is a replica of the first trading post for the indians to trade fur for pots and pans. The firing range was next to the penny arcade and was part of the recreation of 1905 Edmonton. 


                                           bye all of you and thank you all for your comments!
                                                                               Michael

The answer to the question that I asked

The answer is that you count the rings on the horns of the Big Horn Sheep! Nice eh?

NEWSFLASH!!!

HI! we are now at our apartment in Garneau! and we have a spa! YAY! 

Anyway, for about 1 week we where in the Rockies! in the rockies we had been to jasper and banff national parks (they are not one big park). Did you know that Edmonton is 700m above sea level, and Jasper is about 1000m?, and we had walked to the top of Whistler's Mountain at 2.3km (but only after the tramway took us up to the tree-line). 

And I had been in snow for the first time! me and dad had a snow fight and when dad threw a snow ball I had my glove on so I put out my hand so I could make the snowball explode. This happened a few more times and when he threw it at my face I put my hand out, when it exploded all of the snow from the snowball went all over my forehead! Then I got my revenge! when I hit him the snow went all down his back and on his neck and every where you don't want it to go! We also saw a snowfall! (lots of snow falling off a mountain from a glacier breaking up). It was so cool! It sounded like really loud thunder, and every fall of the ice had probably 2 tonnes of ice and snow!

Here are some cool images of animals we saw near Jasper. We found them grazing next to the road, but it was easiest to look for the piles of stopped cars and people with cameras!

 moose

  big horn sheep

Do you know how to tell how old a big horn sheep is without asking it? We will reveal all in a post later.

 colombian ground squirrel - Canada has a lot of these!

 'Empty window'

This is a photo I took of an old mining house halfway up a mountain. Mom (we're in Canada) had to bribe us with promise of McDonald's for dinner to get us to the top.  This is a cool spot for throwing rocks and making shapes made from the rocks. It is the Athabasca River.

bye for now and keep the comments coming. M

excursions

I have already had 2 excursions at school! One was to a nature reserve, where we did a big walk and saw lots of plants but no animals, except for tracks. We couldn't tell what animals they were, even the teachers.  Today I went to the Muttart Conservatory! There are 4 glass pyramids and underneath are different zones. One is the arid (dry) pyramid, one is the tropical pyramid, one is the temperate (figs were growing there) pyramid and the feature pyramid. You're possibly wondering what the feature pyramid is: it is a mixture of flowers and trees, the flowers are the ones you would find in people's gardens. There were a couple of interesting things: #1 I was allowed to take home a petunia in a pot! #2 there was a cactus that was called old man cactus because it had white hair all over it and there was so much hair you could not see the plant!!!

In answer to your questions, bison are about 1.5m tall and 2m long (my guess) and weigh 460-907 kg (according to Ask.com). They seem quite friendly and calm.
Hawaiian pizzas have been a disappointment! The last one I had was pretty average. It had too much bland cheese and not enough yummy pineapple. The one before was halal, so it had pretend bacon made from chicken. 
At school we don't have to wear uniforms! YAY!!!!! They call tiggy "tag", either way it is exactly the same. There are rabbits on the school grounds, they have long ears and long legs and are tame. 
Over here the mornings are freezing and the afternoons are hot. Sometimes the days are wet and cold. Overall it is a bit better than a Melbourne winter. Inside the houses it is boiling and sometimes just right.
 I found a cool coin with something missing on the coin on the right! see if you can find it!
I had a spa bath 2 nights ago and put shampoo in the bath and the jets made so many bubbles the bath almost overflowed with bubbles. Andrew thought it was scary, Elaine thought it was fun and a bit scary and I thought it was really fun.
and once again. thanks for all your comments!

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