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!

The dumfries museums!

During he summer holidays we went to the Dumfries Museum! The first museum we went to was the Old Bridge House Museum which had an old fashioned dentists in it! I did a quiz about the Old Bridge House Museum and got 100%! Apparently it was an inn at one point and Robert burns visited it once his work was done for the day! Then we went to Dumfries Museum itself! There was all sorts of stuff from ancient pictish carvings to stuffed animals (which included a poor golden eagle and otters.) Then we went up to the camera obscura and I was one of the people who got given a spatula with a piece of white cardboard which meant that I could play around with the picture coming onto the viewing table. After a wee while we went back downstairs and we found a room full of old weapons where we (rather surprisingly) found halberds! I had a great day so here are some pictures!

The old bridge house


An old picture of the Dumfries Museum

Leicester!

Before my birthday we went down to Leicester for a few days! On the first day we went down to leicester on the train!Even when the train is going at 100mph it still took the whole day! When we got down to my granny's one of the first things we did was preparing our sleeping bags for sleeping in because it was about 7 o'clock when we arrived at my granny's house. The next day we went to the space museum!(I have done a specialised post about it) The space musuem had loads of actual rockets which was really cool.Then we went to wagamamas for dinner. Mum had itame yasai(which means something like vegtable stew),and i had salmon ramen. The next day we went to Twycross zoo!(I did a post about that too.)They had Amur leopards,or snow leopards!The last day before we went we had dinner at the local sushi restraunt which was great fun.I had a great time in Leicester but unfortunateley i got shopping fatigue.
Here are some pictures!

Me grabbing my "Peppered prey"


The conveyor belt which you grab your food off

My birthday!

On the fourteenth of august it was my birthday!
I got all sorts of presents, from solid bubbles to redwall books (Technically my laptop was a birthday present and so was the trip to Leicester, but i didn't get either on my birthday.)My favorite presents were the redwall books because they are all very good books.The ones i got are Redwall,The Pearls Of Lutra,Eulalia! and Doomwyte. The weirdest present was the touchable bubbles which set a few seconds after you blow them meaning you can catch them and stack them up until your bubble tower collapses .I also got guitar hero Metallica for the wii as well as spore galactic adventures and spore creepy and cute on my laptop. They were all absolutely brilliant. Then my friend Logan was over for a while and we had a great time. The cake was brilliant and it had smarties and rollos all over it(mmm...)Unfortunateley Mum deceided to get self relighting candles, which made blowing them out a little tricky. I had a great birthday!

Twycross zoo

While we were down in Leicester we went to twycross zoo!
A interesting thing about twycross zoo is that it is the only zoo in Britain that has bononbos! when we came into the zoo the first thing we noticed were some monkeys! They looked like Golden Lion tamirins but I'm not that sure. Then we found the orangutans!
The next amazing primate (scientific name for the group of animals that monkeys and gorillas belong to ) that we saw was a spider monkey !Then mum made a bee-line for the bonobos. There appeared to be two groups of them (one was inside whilst we were at twycross zoo.) Most of the bonobos were relaxing in the sun but there was a granny bonobo who pretended to be old and frail but sometimes she suddenly started chasing a young and cheeky bonobo who was running around the enclosure at high speed. Then we had our lunch next to the kookaburra cage, which was next door to the ibis cage(This must have confused them ,because they don't live near each other in the wild.) Then we went to the big birds place ,where we saw wildcats(i don't know why they were there)Flamingos,storks, turtles and all sorts of weird birds. Then we went to see the elephants (who were all outside because there was a mother elephant with a newborn baby occupying their indoor habitat.) After that we went to see the leopards which were really cool(one of them was flopped out inside.Mum joked that i should tickle its paws.Naturally i freaked out.)Unfortunately our camera was out of batteries by then.Then we went to see the pride of Asian lions which was brilliant!(Apparently there is only about 300 left in the wild.Eeek.) Then we saw the giraffes which were really cool . One of them stuck its head through the fence and gave me a look up close. I mustn't forget the super cute meerkats .One was standing on a log and keeping watch(it was also looking very cute .)Another was suckling a furry ball of babys(Awww.) Then there was the giant guinea pigs,or capybara .Another cool creature we saw were the Marmosets,which basically looked like Meerkats that needed to go on a diet.
There was also pengwins! A few were hiding in the shade, a couple were soaking up the sun and the really clever ones were enjoying a good swim.
Here are the pictures!

The giant guinea pigs!


Piggy marmoset!


Awwww...


I'm going to have a nice nap afterwards....zzzzzz


Mmm... grass...


Kookaburra!Kookaburra!


Look, a flamingo!


a picture of the bonobo,Diatuou, that i adopted

the space museum

When we were in Leicester we went to the space museum! The main part looked like a hi-tech beehive! When you came in the first thing you saw was a reconstructed Russian space probe which was really cool.But before we did anything we had lunch. Under a rocket called Thor, which was next to an old British missile.(Which ,incidentally, has a shell thinner than that of a fizzy drinks can .) Then we went to the Darwin exhibition which had lots of cool stuff about evolution. It also had arcade machines which had evolution games on them(such as evolve your own plant.)Then we went into the actual museum. There was all sorts of cool things there, from how ancient people thought the universe began to an actual chunk of moon rock! My favorite thing there was the asteroid game in which you picked an asteroid and hurled it at the earth and observed the consequences ! I had a brilliant time so here are the pictures!

the space museum


us enjoying lunch under the rocket,Thor.


Phew! I landed safely!



Prepare for blastoff!!!!!!!!!