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Hey, you'll never guess where I am... You'll never know I'm in Paris. WHOOPS!! Well, umm, never mind.



Paris has a railroad underground called a metro, where the trains have both train wheels and tyres!!! Strange, isn't it? The first time we rode the metro, we were going to a science museum. In my opinion, science is incredibly awesome. There was a spiny thing that was getting blown up and around into the air. I bet you know what 3D means. I saw a 3D movie about dinos. The archaeopteryx looks like a great escaper, but this bird can't fly. Another movie was about planets. It wasn't 3D but the room was shaped like an enormous rocket nose. This was called the planetarium.



In a different section there was a human sized coffee table that was made out of glass and huge pieces of lego, isn't that cool? To me that was as neat as a rock star.



This blog isn't just about the museum - it's heaps of blogs in one. I also a boat trip where we saw some docked house boats. On one of the concrete bridges there were some hideous faces of the King's courtisans.



I bet you know a truckful about Romans, but you don't know much about Goths. We went to a Gothic church that was designed by an 'un-gothic man' who was a Goth history fan. The church was called Notre Dame. It had some shimmering treasure - it must have been worth a fortune. The church bells were strange. To ring the bells they pulled a rope, but now they can play a piano which will make hammers bonk the bells. The man who designed the church put statues of Jesus' friends and a statue of himself on it. What a self-care, boasting, show-off!



In Paris there is a place called the Lourve - AKA, the home of the Mona Lisa. I also saw some statues of some Greek and Rome gods like Zeus, Jupiter, Apollo, Minerva, Mercury, and Juno. Dad and I stood infront of a frustrated looking statue head and made some cross faces. No one was allowed to touch the paintings. If someone did the humungus security doors will quickly shut with a thundering boom.



Usually when we get off the metro, we go to a place called Champs-Elysese. One time when we were there I got a ride on a towel slide. I wished that New Zealand had all of this as I admired the statue of the tall stone Egyptian obelisk.

By Zeus

Before the Romans and after the Celts, were the Greeks. The wealthy Greeks had magnificent houses made of marble. Today I'm going to tell you about a Greek palace.

Some of the floors were mosaic tiles. There were two heavy baths that each weighed a ton. There were also two weird showers with a whole heap of taps that each do a different type of water spray onto people.

On the first floor there was a relaxation bath as big as a spa tub. Actually, maybe it was a spa tub...

The palace was actually built by a French man who admired Greek history, about one hundred years ago. A neighbour of the palace back then, was the man who designed the Eiffel Tower. Speaking of the Eiffel Tower, I'm going to Paris tomorrow.

Waves in Water

Ahhhhh, 'fishies', lovely little... Oh! Hello. Sorry, just got carried away. Hey, wait a minute, you're here to read my blog, aren't you? Well, OK then, yesterday we went to an aquarium and saw some fish.

In the first tank there was a fish that looked like it had horns. In the same tank there was some sharks lurking about and a big turtle hanging motionless in the water. In another tank there was a huge eel with little fish moving quickly across it, eating parasites off it. So the eel gets rid of parasites and the fish gets a meal. This is called symbiosis.

Want to know what was in another tank? Well, there were some super dads. Super dads have some special body parts. Each one has: a head like a horse, a nose like an aardvark, eyes like a lizard, a tail like an armadillo and a pouch like a kangaroo. Another name for a super dad is a seahorse.

OK then, next tank. It was a weird sight to see some fish that looked like worms sticking out of the ground. One of them usually had to duck quickly into the sand because a fish was after him.

Jellyfish were in two other tanks. Some were sitting upside down, making the ground look like it had wigs!

Now the building wasn't just an aquarium. There was also a turtle sub (an old time war sub) in another part of the building. I got to sit in it.

A whale hunting boat was in the next room, on the boat as a gun that was used to kill whales at top speed. Beside the boat there was some baleen . This is the stuff whales use to sieve the water to get food. Hanging down from the roof there was a huge whale skeleton. Imagine the sound of a whales song echoing softly and then it does a death scream as a harpoon hits.

On the way out of the building I saw a picture of an eel with a shrimp cleaning it's teeth like a living toothbrush.

Do you think this holiday of mine is cool? It is to me, and now, back to day dreaming about lovely fishies...

Wild Life

Who ever is reading this blog should have seen this park of wild life! Want to hear about it? Let's start with the otter. He was so cute and playful and seemed to enjoy himself. The prairie dogs were as cute as the otter and fat, only they didn't have any pool, so they probably couldn't swim. Iguanas were in the park too. They looked really lazy because they were very slow. Something is fishy about these other creatures, because they are ... fish! There were a lot of fish, for example, a shark and some stingray were lurking slowly about. Ick. In the aquarium there were also some bugs. No! Loads of bugs, such as very hairy spiders that didn't move much and scorpions that moved quickly, trying to escape. Do you want to know what moved even slower than the iguanas? The tortoises did, and the turtles moved as slowly as slugs, or snails maybe, except when they were swimming. The park had an ENORMOUS frog which I crept inside, and slipped down it's tongue. Want to know why? Because it was a slide! Have you heard of a pyramid? One was at the park. Well, it wasn't a real Egyptian pyramid, but it was shaped like one. It was a hedge, and when the breeze blew on it, it leaves shimmered.

Une Baguette

I went to a 'House of Pain' where they torture people. They tortured me, they kicked me, they punched me, they clobbered me, and psych! Did I trick you? The 'House of Pain' doesn't torture people. It isn't a house. 'Pain' actually means bread in French. So I went into the store, asked if I could have some bread in French, and the man gave me a pie in the face! Nope, he gave me some bread, hot bread that tortured my hands, so I gave it to Mum.

All Aboard!

The day before yesterday we went on a train to Italy. We decided to go to the market there and I got a toy. Then we went to Monte Carlo and saw some fancy Ferrari's, a playground with a great view was in Monte Carlo as well, also, some French people were setting up rides. Whaea Hilary had a ride on... THE WINDMILL TWISTER (a spinney ride). Dad and I went on the dodgems; Bang!... Wham!... Bonk! Those were fun. Then Celine and I went in a Surprise House with a vibrating floor, a rolling squishier, a hamster wheel, and some air blasters. Sounds good, eh. I hope there's a next time...