The Medronho Berry war!!

On Thursday we were all up at the fort that Yan had constructed enjoying the sun when Yan started flicking ripe medronho berrys at us and they left gooey marks! Soon i started throwing green ones at him and caught him a corker right between his eyes Shortly afterwards it became a full on Medronho berry war!! Here is a picture of some medronho berrys,both ripe (Red) and unripe(Green!)



After about half an hour we all stopped because we were completely covered in Medronho Berry goo! It was great but messy fun! The next thing i will post about is the wall building we did!

Archery!

The day after we arrived i tried some archery! It was great fun but i wasn't very good to begin with but that was to be expected. A couple of days later i was climbing rickety ladders up rotten old trees to shoot arrows far and wide!
Here is a picture of me doing that!




I was quite good at archery by the time we left!

Portugal!!

Last Tuesday we went over to Portugal!It was lovely and sunny the whole time! Also on the way there I flew on a plane for the first time and it was great fun! When we got there it was dark but it was also still warm when we arrived at Yans house (Maybe that's just me coming from Scotland.) Here is a picture of where we stayed!


The house we stayed in!



I will do several posts with a picture and a story of what the picture is about!

Twycross Zoo!!

Last week I went to Twycross Zoo!! One of the first things that happened was a play fight between two gibbons! One of the gibbons was cuddling a orang-utan toy! However the other gibbon decided to start bullying the other, but he was quickly taken away when it was feeding time. Then we noticed one of the real orang-utans was drinking a lot of cows milk,which i thought was odd until i was told that it was going to be a mummy orang! Then we went to see the elephants, and the new baby elephant, Ganeshe, was with them!It turned out that we were just in time for the elephant training routine which was really interesting, and it was rather funny when we saw Ganeshe trying to copy the other elephants, especially when they did the lifting up their feet thing and little Ganeshe tumbled over! Then we visited the penguins and it turns out that the eggs that we saw there last time we went had hatched and there was cute little baby Humboldt penguins! We went to check up on the gorillas and they still looked as grumpy as last time we saw them! The next animals we went to look at were the Bonobo's and we figured out which one was Diatou, the Bonobo that i adopted!
Then we went to see the giant turtles, and it turned out that they were still as slow! I had a brilliant day so here are the pictures!

The gibbon with the orangutan toy!


A picture of the mummy orangutan drinking milk!


The bonobo we think is Diatou is being groomed in the corner.Some other bonobo is in the huff.



Little Ganesh!


The Penguins!


The elephants doing their farewell salute!

The Scopio-XV1!!

Yesterday I got the Scopio-XV1!! It is currently my favourite lego thing but it cost me a months pocket money!!It can transform from a four-tracked vehicle to a highly manoeuvrable four legged scorpion(hence the name,Scopio)which i think is really cool!! Here are some pictures!!

The Scopio!(Note:this version is slightly edited . The pilot has a sword and he is also carrying the Thornax launcher)


The Scopio halfway through transforming.


The pilot, Telluris.

Beatles rock band!

Yesterday we got the Beatles rock band! It is only just out today so we got it a day early which means that we played through it before it had even come out! Unlike other rock band and guitar hero band games it only has Beatles songs on it. A good thing that happens is if you play a song that was made after the Beatles stop playing live it starts in an old studio but it soon becomes a mad video with trumpet trees in the background or ,if you want the official name, dreamscapes. My favourite song was Here Comes The Sun, because it is so rainy up here in Scotland. My dad is a big beatles fan ,and he liked pretty much all the songs.Here is the intro video.

The harry potter film!

When we went to the museums in Dumfries we also went to see the new (ish) Harry potter film! The main plot goes a bit like this:at the start Dumbledore takes Harry with him to help convince a new teacher,Horace slughorn, to come to Hogwarts. Then it turns out that Voldemort has launched an assault against the muggle world. In the middle the Death Eaters attack and destroy The burrow(Ron's home.) At the end Harry and Dumbledore look for a horcrux in an ancient cave and find nothing but a fake horcrux. When they return the death eaters attack hogwarts, and Snape kills Dumbledore. Here is the trailer, for those of you who haven't seen it.




I had a great time and my favorite bit was the firestorm in the cave scene!