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!

check this out!

This is a little animation I did!
Copy it on your URL or click the link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyknfKbxzoc



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Canada#2

Hello it is me again and this place is kinda cool.
Sometimes some scary things happen.

I don't know what happened but I just turned around and something strange happened...

Mums face and Elaine's faces are swapped around.

Does anyone know what that weird thing saying no is?

We saw lots of bison at Elk Island national park.

The bison are like cows, they eat grass.

There used to be millions of them and then the white people came and they almost went extinct.

There are a thousand in the park now but we only saw 3.

The Indians used to kill the Bison by herding them over a cliff called "Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump".

What are those storm troopers doing?!?

All these photos are the lego replica of the parliament house, called the Alberta Legislature Building, which actually looks like this....

Bye for now and again thanks for your comments!

my fourth post

 The food here is pretty much the same as in Australia, except there are shops all around. I think the best one is Mucho Burrito, In fact, Its the only restaurant I've been to. But there was a hot dog stand with 25 different types of MUSTARD! -sorry, i just LOVE mustard. In Hawaii there was a "pizza" that Andrew and Elaine didn't eat one piece because is was HORRIBLE!

At my school, to get into the school you have to ring a buzzer and say your name and class. You need 2 pairs of shoes, for outside and inside. 

The rooms are numbered - I am in room 17. My teacher's name is, um hang on, ............................., oh yeh, Michael.

When I went swimming today I got first 2 times, second 3 times and third one time -I can't believe the others are so slow at swimming.

A lot of the parks have water features, like sprinklers and sprayers and so on. No water restrictions here!

Here there is the biggest shopping centre in the world, with a water theme park and a FunFields type park. Can't wait to go there.

Bye for now, Michael

This is a picture of a giant wave that splashed me (in Hawaii)