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My Amazing Trip to Scotland Part 1

Edinburgh

In the holidays, I went to Scotland for a week and first we went to Edinburgh and then to Aberdeen afterwards. When we arrived in Edinburgh, we went to Arthur’s Seat, which is an extinct volcano; Arthur’s Seat is 250.5 m (822 ft) high, and it was really hard work climbing up it, but was worth it because it had loads of amazing views all around.

Arthurs seat

Arthurs sea view

A tomb on Arthurs seat.

The next day we went to Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, which was brilliant. It had loads of good views from the top and you can spy on people, give them electric shocks and play the stairs, when you walked on the stairs they played the piano and so much more. From the gift shop I got a Spy pen and a static science kit. My favourite thing there was a mirror maze, which was really tricky.

camera obscura

Camera Obscura

camera obscura binoculars

mirror maze

my ghost shaking hands with me

me swimming in the fishes

crackle ball

world of illusions

electricity stuff

telescope camera obscura

Headless Me

me and my skeleton

camera obscura

scottish flag

Then we went to a really nice restaurant for dinner, called Ondine, and had lots of shellfish.

ondine seafish platter

Then we went to Edinburgh Castle and saw the 1 ‘O’ clock gun, my favourite part was the prisons and, I got locked in one of them, with GEORGIA.

The royal mile

Edinburgh castle

Me with a bagpiper statue

Edinburgh castle view

Edinburgh castle soldier

cannon controlling

Then for tea we went to the Scran and Scallie and I had fish and chips.

The Scran and Scallie

fish goujons and homemade tartare sauce

salad

Roast potatos

giant cookie

On the last day for dinner we went to a restaurant called Fishers, which is right next to the sea, and ate lots more seafood.

seafood

oysters

mussels

Fishers

Afterwards we went to Greyfriars Kirk and found out the story of Greyfriars bobby (a dog) his owner is an Edinburgh policeman named John Gray who died in 1858. His dog was so loyal that he watched over his dead master’s grave at the Greyfriars Cemetery for 14 years until his own death in 1872.

Greyfriars church

Greyfriars bobby grave

graves

Greyfriars bobby statue

This is one of the graves that J.K Rowling used for ideas of names for Harry Potter characters.

harry potter grave

I LOVE EDINBURGH

My favourite place that we went to was Camera Obscura and World of Illusions.

LEGOLAND Windsor Resort

The morning after we went to the Hinds Head, we went for a drive and I was super surprised when we arrived at Legoland Windsor Resort! We went on lots of rides mostly lego themed, there were lots of rides – over 55 all together, click here to find out about other rides. There was so much to do that we went for two days.

This is me with a lego pirate

Lego plane

Me battling Darth Vader

Lego city sign

Me sliding instead of going down the steps

Heartlake Harbour Arena

At Heartlake harbour arena we watched a pirate show, which was really funny.😜

Pirate show

Balloon School

Balloon school was a ride where you had to pull a rope to go up and let it go to come back down.

Balloon school

Fire academy

On this you had to put out fire like fire fighters.

Fire fighting

Miniland

Miniland was lots of different places from around the world made of LEG0, like America NASA, which had a countdown timer, when it went to zero there was a rocket which smoke came out of.

Miniland tower bridge

Lego City Driving School

On this you had to drive around in fiat mini cars with pedals, the right pedal makes you go faster and the left slower, there were speed cameras, traffic lights and a garage.

Vikings’ River Splash

This was the water rapids ride, we got soaked!

The Dragon

This was my personal favourite, it’s a rollercoaster that goes through some rooms in a castle with a dragon and a wizard and lots of other stuff, then it exits the building and goes sideways and through the trees.

These were some of the other rides.

space tower

sky rider

Lego movie 4D theatre

Atlantis submarine voyage

Submarines

Me swimming with the fish

I would love to go back!!

It’s one of the best theme parks I’ve ever been to!!

To find out some information click here.

My Trip to London

On Sunday 14th August when we arrived in London we travelled on the Underground to see the London Eye.

London eye

Then went to a food market to have some drinks then we went through Chinatown and Trafalgar Square and found a BFG dream jar from the BFG dream jar trial these are the ones we found:

I dream of the universe by Professer Stephen Hawking
A dreamy dancers dream by Karon Elson
A stitch in time saves nine by Jenny Packham
Healthy start, happier lives: RB:
City of dreams Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
For the love of animals: Simon Cowell
Believe in extraordinary by Team GB
For the love of the hedgehog by Zoella
Theatre of dreams by Tim Minchin
This a BFG dream jar

This another dream jar that we saw

Here is the BFG Dream jar map and checklist. Then we arrived at…M&M’s world stuffed full of M&M things like pillows, cups, key rings, magnets, tennis balls and personalised stuff and it even has a giant wall of chocolate where you can create your own M&M’S selection from over 100 choices.

M&M world

M&M men

After then we went to Hamleys and I bought a Find It London book and a LEG0 minifigure.

Hamleys

A Queen made of LEG0

After that we went to Buckingham palace and saw some of the royal guards and then we went to Downing street but could only see gates.

Then we went for tea at Bibimbap, which is a Korean restaurant for starters I had some fried chicken, kimchi, kimchi pancakes and dumplings.

Bibimbap

Dumplings

For my main course I had a rice bowl called Bibimbap.

Bibimbap rice bowl

It was really nice.

Then on the way to Piccadilly circus we saw the BT Tower. When we arrived at Piccadilly circus we saw the statue of Eros which is actually called Anteros.

Picadilly circus

The next day we went on the London Eye and when we were at the top there were lots of really good views and you could see for 25 miles. The London Eye is 350 metres high.

London eye views

Then we went to The Tower Bridge and went inside to the walkways and there was a glass floor to walk across and stand on and look down below to the river Thames.

The glass floor on the Tower Bridge

After that we went to Borough Market and bought some doughnuts, which are said to be the NICEST IN THE WORLD. They were the best I ever had.

Borough market Doughnut

Afterwards we went to Monument which is a memorial to the Great Fire of London and has 311 spiral steps which was really difficult to climb up. There were loads of great views from the viewing platform.

The Monument stairs

The information on The Monument

Then we went to see St. Pauls Cathedral with it’s enormous dome.

St. Pauls Cathedrals.

After that we went to Brewdog for dinner and had some pizzas. Afterwards we went to Kensington Gardens and Covent Garden.

I love LONDON!!!!!

This a souvenir I bought from the London eye gift shop.

London eye souvenir

The Hinds Head

The day before we went to LegoLand we went to The Hinds Head in Bray, which is one of Heston Bluementhal’s restaurants.

Hinds Head

I ordered an Apple juice to drink, whilst we looked at the menu.

For starters I had a Scotch Egg, when I cut inside, the yolk was really nice and runny.

Scotch Egg

For my main course I had a cottage pie which was really delicious.

Cottage pie

We also got some sides to share which were a heritage tomato salad, smoked green beans and buttered carrots.

sides

For dessert I had an elderflower sorbet and some cheesecake and we shared a cheeseboard.

cheesecake

cheeseboard

When we got the bill they brought us dark chocolate orange and caraway seed truffle.

When we were waiting to leave we were talking to the man behind the bar, who gave us some of Heston’s special chocolates which looked like stones- I thought he was tricking us and making us eat stones but they were really nice chocolates!

chocolate stones

I really enjoyed going to The Hinds Head and would love to go again.

It’s the best restaurant I’ve ever been to!

My Amazing Laser Quest Adventure

In the holidays we went to Laser Quest at the Trafford Centre and we had to pick a name, I chose Darth Vader. We had Laser Guns and we wore packs which looked like vests they had targets on them. We got 10 points for zapping ⚡️ someone, if someone shot you, you would lose points.

Me zapping people

We were split into two teams. We were on the red team and had to shoot the blue team. There were ramps and hiding places everywhere. The red team (us) won with 8576 points. The game was half an hour long and we had to walk round in the dark shooting the blues whilst trying not to get shot ourselves.

After that I did some rock climbing, the wall kept moving and slanting so it was like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, it was hard to keep up but I climbed 2.9 metres high.

rock climbing

Then we played Laser Quest again and I was on the red team again. We had to shoot a target before we could zap someone. Red won again with 9978 points.

I would love to go again, it was so much fun.

My 9th Birthday

First I had chocolate porridge, which had chocolate buttons in it.

my chocolate porridge

Then I opened my cards and presents, some of my favourite presents were:

Latice, a board game
Diary with pencil, keys and a padlock
A BIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me unwrapping my bike

Me on my bike

Cake time, the cake was delicious it was a sticky sherbet lemon cake.

Me blowing out my candles

My birthday cake

Then we went out and watched the new BFG at a cinema, which was even better than the first one! When we were at the cinema one of the staff told me I could choose some sweets from the pick’n’mix section because it was my birthday.

Me choosing pick’n’mix

I also got some BFG ears from the film.

Me with BFG ears

When the film had finished we went to Solita(4) in Preston and we had for starters: cheeseburger spring rolls, deep fried pickles, mac’n’cheese balls and deep fried avocados.

starters

Solita neon wall

Solita cow

For a main course I had a soft shell crab burger and sweet potato chips.

My soft shell crab burger

When we got home Grandma came and I got some more presents my favourite one was magic tricks.

Scratch – Ping Pong

I’ve made another Scratch project this time on my own with 0% help … that’s right it’s Ping Pong!

The aim of the game is to get the ball to bounce on the paddle and not touch the red line!

Move your mouse to move the paddle to bounce your target is to not touch the red line at the bottom of the backdrop.
You may stop the game when you wish.
Please post your scores!

Scratch – Boat Race

This is my latest Scratch project, Boat Race, This ay be my favourite and my last of Code Club to find out more about Scratch click here.

Use the mouse or the arrow keys to move if the boat has a black line in use the mouse but if it has a purple line use the keyboard.
There are 4 levels can you battle your way through the boat race.
Get to the yellow desert and go over the white arrows to speed up and avoid the wood which will send you back to the start and the green which will slow you down!

Thanks for playing!

Sorry about the music no music in the files!

Book Review – “Mum…” by Morty Sey and Scott Chegg

This is a good book because it’s funny. It rhymes for effect and has brilliant pictures.

This is the front cover

The alarm doesn’t go off, so Mum is late, loads of disasters happen like: “Why aren’t you dressed yet?”, “She hasn’t got time to do her make-up!”, “She’s got nothing to wear and she can’t do a thing with her hair!” When they’re nearly ready to go, she has to change a nappy! Half way down the road she realises she had no phone and no purse, she can’t find a parking space! It’s no longer a school run but a race!!!

The book follows Mum as she tries to get ready for the school run, with a surprise twist at the end.

This is my favourite picture in the book – My Mum NEVER looks like this 😉 :

This is my favourite picture in the book

Even though i’m a bit too old for this book now I still enjoyed it and I would recommend this book for EYFS and year 1 and 2.

I would rate this book 4 out of 5.

Scratch – Paint Box

This is my latest project, Paint Box.

Here is my coding screen for this project:

This is my coding screen.

Here are some keyboard shortcuts you can use to change colour and clear:

g = green
b = blue
r = red
y = yellow
l = black
e = eraser
c = clear

Have a go what can you draw?