Bon Voyage!

Bon Voyage!  I'm off...to London and Paris with Jenna, Paw Paw and Gung Gung.  This is gonna be a great trip!  Here we go!

SV Kids Tri 2014

100 meters (4 laps), 4 mile bike ride, and 1/2 mile run.  I did it.  I actually ended up being 93rd place out of 382 (9-10 year olds).  Which is in the top 25th percentile.  My time was 29 minutes, 46 seconds. (The fastest kid did it in 19 minutes.)  A drastic improvement since the last time I did this (we skipped last year).  In the years prior, I almost always finished in the last group...like the very last group.  But my swimming has improved a lot, I'm more comfortable swimming.  And my bike is fast.  Like really fast.  The bad part was that it was so hot.  It was scorching.  But I did it and I'm happy with my accomplishment.  That and Dad promised to get me a DS3...if I finished in the top 50th percentile.  Well...I beat that goal and then some.  So there!

Our transition area.  Me on one side and B on the other (though we go at different times)

Check out my awesome bike.

Lots of bikes, lots of kids!

We're ready.

Pool

Waiting for my wave to be called.

Chatting with my lane partner.

Feels so good in the pool

And we're off!

Running to the transition area for biking...

Run fast...the ground is burning my toes!

Helmet, check, shoes, check...let's go!

Back for the run

Hat, check...sunglasses, check...

I finished...Yay!!!

Finally, I can sit down...in the shade!  Hottest day!

Drawing

I drew this a while ago, but Mom just found it in my things...

Ninja loves me

Rabbits show they like another rabbit by licking or grooming....so here's Ninja....grooming ME!

Art

An artwork for Open House.

Memorial Day with friends and my birthday

It was Memorial Day, so we had a little party.  Well, it wasn't so little.  There were a lot of kids over at our house, but we had a lot of fun.  Tristan and I rode our bikes around the block...all by ourselves!  Some other kids did it too, but on scooters or the kettcar or whatever.  We just had a blast. We also played soccer and lacrosse and basketball and football in the front yard.  And then there were water guns...and the hose.  Let's see, Ella, Cady, Connor, Lucas, Joie, Larkin, Ryken, Callan, Tristan, Logan, Addison, Bella and Julian...and those are just the kids!

Then, we celebrated my birthday ( a few days early) with a cake.  Dad put on quite a few candles...so I had some trouble blowing them all out!

Food.

We went to dinner at this place called San Pedro Square Market...There's a couple big warehouse type buildings and in them there are food stalls.  There was a French place, serving poutines, and then pizza, another place serving gourmet hotdogs, burgers, etc.  It was pretty cool.  Then there are rooms with big tables for dining.  So we all chose different food stalls, ordered our food and waited.

The food was actually pretty good and we were all happy to have tried different things.  We want to go back.  It's a fun atmosphere.  The pizza was really good.  And we also had duck fat fries...which was really good too.  Later we had a crepe suzette and it was yummy.