Christmas in Nashville

Howdy y'all!
I'm back from Nashville and glad to share my photos with you
Highlights for me were the Nutella Crepes and Fresh Doughnuts at the Farmer's Market; walking around and checking out the town; falling asleep at  during most meals.

Living the Dream

My first attempt at song writing..

"Go to the ice-cream store"

After school I went home
Then I went to the ice-cream store
I bought a chocolate
Then I made a strawberry milkshake

best birthday ever!

We went to Boston and had a long weekend to celebrate my birthday

I am a big fan of JetBlue - they actually have snacks on domestic flights and free luggage check in - and I can watch Cartoon Network as we are flying along.

The first day was a big day as we flew out of DC at 600am. By 900am I had been in a cab, a plane, a train, a bus and a tram. A big day for transportation!

We took a trolley tour of Boston and got out bearings though I must admit to falling asleep between stops 12 and 16.

At stop 16 we got off and visited the Boston Tea Party museum. No sight of Sarah Palin but I had fund throwing mock tea into the ocean. As I did all the folk around shouted 'huzzah!' in support of my treason against King George III.

Day two was a beautiful clear winter's day and after a dip in the heated pool at the hotel we went ice-skating. I struggled and mummy was not much better but we had fun.

Mummy and me with the thinker frog at the frog pond Boston Common

After a quick stop for a Happy Meal (no boys toys left and only Hello Kitty!) we visited some gravestones for people who died before James Cook even set foot in Australia.

But day three was the best. It was my birthday !

Started the morning with some presents and a swim and then we braved the rain to catch the train to the Lego Centre. It was a great morning making lego, looking at other people's lego constructions, going on Lego rides.

Amazing gravestones with grim reapers and skulls

After a quick lunch we caught the train and bus back to the airport and were home in Arlington in time to open more presents before dinner.

Thanks to everyone for my lovely presents. Hope you got my Skype messages.

Glad to be 5.

Wifi in the Park? How civilised!

Make way for Ducklings!

Geese walking on the ice at Boston Common

Building a dragon in Legoland Masterclass

two months in review

School is back so we've spent the last two months in DC except for a quick long weekend to North Carolina in September (rescheduled from Independence day).

 

Feeding the ducks in Duck

I have a new group of classmates and have made some new friends

I'm doing swimming lessons again this term and have a new wetsuit to keep me nice and warm despite the Fall chill

Over the last few weeks I've been very busy constructing a box house out of Mummy and Daddy's online shopping packaging

Finishing the brick work on my chimney

And of course last week was Halloween

I was 'Mr Bunny' at school and for trick or treating dressed up as a Pirate Captain

Setting up the doorstep with Sponster the Monster

Daddy's candle inspired by Book of Life

Daddy's spider web and eggs full of treats

Today Mummy and I went to see the Spinosaurus exhibition at National Geographic. I left my first ever visitors comment and knew how to spell "I loved it" without any help

Into the woods

We celebrated the end of the Northern Hemisphere summer with a trip to a cabin in the woods in West Virginia.

The trip involved a lot of ice-cream, which was a highlight for me

 We visited Berkeley Springs 'America's first spa' where the colonial elite would go to bathe and take the waters. It was delicious water.

We also visited Cacoupon Park were we saw a tortoise and did our best Peppa Pig impression in a peddlo. It was strange to be paddling through a National Park and have the silence shattered every now and then by gun shots

Mummy, Daddy and I played lots of board games and had a nice relaxing weekend in the country.

There was a bit of antiquing involved but I saw some cool things like crocodile heads so I didn't mind too much.

Spooky body parts museum and other highlights of Philadelphia

We have just arrived home from a weekend trip to Philadelphia

It drizzled all day on Saturday but after a walk down to Old Town we caught a double decker bus to see the sights

We saw lots of cool historical stuff - like the house where the star spangled banner was made and the Rocky steps!

We visited the Franklin Institute which is like a bigger, older Questacon. I walked through a two-storey heart with Mummy.

Poe was right..the sound of a beating heart is enough to drive you mad!

And tried to solve the mystery of 'who dung it' in the Circus room.

 

Then I fell asleep in Daddy's arms as we went around the Reading Terminal Market and got some yummy things for dinner, including Bassetts Mint choc-chip ice cream (which was so good I managed 3 serves)

Today we visited the Mutter Museum that is filled with Medical oddities. I thought the freakiest thing there was the body of a lady who was mummified by her own fat in the grave. There were lots of skulls and skeletons and various body parts in jars. It was pretty cool.

 

We stopped by Franklin Square for a quick play and a few goes on the Merry go Round before walking back through Chinatown to get some delicious hand pulled noodles to enjoy on our bus trip back to DC.