The first theme park we went to was Disneyland. The second was Knotts Berry Farm and the third was Universal Studios Hollywood. In Disneyland there was two different theme parks. There was one called Disneyland and the other one called California Adventure and I went in both. In Disneyland they had lots of rides. The ride that I mostly liked were Splash Mountain, Autopia cars and Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. We went on the monorail twice. We saw two parades. In California Adventure there is a ride California Screamin'. You go really, really fast up and really, really fast down. You [View Full Entry]

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We went to Sea World and I got to feed some dolphins. After that we saw a dolphin show that was called Discovery Dolphins. They had Bottlenose Dolphins and Pilot Whales in the show. There was a Pilot Whale called Duncan. Some people where holding a rope up and then the dolphins were supposed to jum p over it but Duncan grabbed the rope and pulled it down. Then the Bottlenosed Dolphin called Dolly did a really high jump. Then we got to see Shamu and Shamu weighed over 300,000 pounds. Shamu did lots of jumps and loved splashing the crowd. [View Full Entry]

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From Washington we flew to Atlanta where we stayed for a night at my Dad's friend Donald's house. The next day we moved to a hotel near the airport because we had an early flight the next day. We took a long flight from Atlanta to San Francisco. We stayed in a hotel called the Hyatt hotel. That night we went to see a baseball game. It was the San Francisco Giants vs. the Cincinatti Reds. The score was Reds 10, Giants 9. I got to sit in a big baseball glove. The next day I went on a ride on [View Full Entry]

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We left San Francisco and went for a drive to Yosemite National Park. Along the way, we stopped at the Jelly Belly Factory. We went on a tour and saw lots of jelly bellies being made. The tour was quite long and they gave out free samples and um at the end of the tour they gave out more free samples. You could put different flavours together, for example two lemon jelly bellies and two cotton candy jelly bellies makes pink lemonade flavour. It was so good. We then drove to Yosemite and saw waterfalls. Lots of them. Our hotel number [View Full Entry]

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After New York we took a train to Washington DC (the capital of the USA) and then drove to a place in Virginia called the Tully House. It was a big, big, 3 storey house. The basement had a pool table where I beat my brother, Tom once. We spent a week there and during the week we went into Washington a couple of times. I went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Natural History. I saw a space shuttle. At the Natural History Museum they had lots of fossils and dinosaur skeletons. I thought the [View Full Entry]

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When we first flew into New York from Canada I thought "wow, it's like France the City of Lights (Dad said I probably meant Paris, but that's cool). We took a taxi to our hotel room. The room was tiny but we fell asleep quickly. The next morning, we took the subway to Times Square where we had breakfast. We then went to M&M's World where we bought some M&M's. There were a giant green M&M that had disguised itself as the Statue of Liberty. After M&M's World we went to Battery Park and saw the real Statue of Liberty. We [View Full Entry]

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On the first day of snowboarding was the day after we got to Whistler. At snowboard camp I learnt how to go on my heels and zig zig down the mountain. We had lunch each day and they had lots of hot chocolates. We also made two ramps and I "got air" over the ramps. I think Canada is cool. They drive on the wrong side of the road and they have different money. A 1 cent coin is called a penny, a 5 cent is called a nickel, a 10 cent is called a dime, a 25 cent coin is [View Full Entry]

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Daniel gets to Whistler (eventually) We left home and went to the airport to fly up to Sydney but the brakes were broken on the plane and they made us sit and wait for about 40 minutes and they eventually fixed them. We stayed overnight in Sydney and we all had to sleep in one room and we watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on the TV. The next morning we got up and went to Sydney airport. We checked in and went to the lounge and the food was free. I had some pretzels, some banana bread, a muffin [View Full Entry]

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