Cracker Jack

Yesterday I had my very first Cracker Jack. For those of you who don't know what a Cracker Jack is, it is a special type of food that is carmel coated popcorn and every packet comes with a special surprise inside.

Cracker Jack is very yummy and they are like a supreme delicacy although the surprizes are not like plastic bunnies because they always are flat to fit into the box. For an example a pencil topper. A pencil topper goes on to your pencil and has a picture on it and when you twirl the pencil the picture will move.

My great Aunt Jean introduced me to them. She is 92, almost 93 and she lives in the Versailles - when I say the Versailles I don't mean the Versailles outside of Paris - I mean an apartment building in Philadelphia.

Now I have to go. Ta ta for now.

The Banksy Exhibit

For those of you who don't who Banksy is, he is a graffiti artist. And last Saturday I went to go see his exhibition in Bristol, it is at the Bristol City Museum and it is called Banksy V Bristol Museum.

We got there on the train and I went with my friend Dom, my brother, my mom, my dad, my brothers friend, and our friends Peter and Juliane. First we took a taxi to Mathews house, then Dom's house, then to Paddington Station to meet Juliane and Peter. Paddington Station is the same station where Paddington Bear was found and he was named for the station.

At the train station I went to The Candy Factory and picked out some very yummy pieces of candy - some white chocolate fudge, a couple of gummy coke bottles, a marshmallow twisted thing, a candy blackberry and a sticky thing covered in chocolate sprinkles that tasted like coffee which I did not like.

The train took about an hour and a half. However me and Dom were prepared. I had brought some Simpsons Uno Cards and Dom brought a kids crossword puzzle book, a dot to dot book, a Horrid Henry Jolly Joke Book and that was it.

Then when we finally got there was a gigantic line and my dad got us some pizza to eat in a field. Finally it was time to enter. It was a very funny show because Banksy just snuck around doing all sorts of crazy things like the hen house with the hen and the baby chicken nuggets coming out of the eggs. There was an ice cream truck inside with a giant ice cream on top covered in graffiti. We also saw a miniature Stonehenge made out of Port A Loos with a picture on Stonehenge on the morning of the solstice. We were also there on the solstice - June 21st.

We saw the funniest thing ever - we saw a picture of baby Jesus and Mary - and Mary was listening to an Ipod and the picture was called Silent Night.


We also saw a picture of some UFO's sending down some green laser beams. It probably meant that the aliens were going to abduct some people.

There was also a picture of a woman looking through a window with a computer note saying that an error has appeared on the computer and to please X out and try again. This was funny because you don't normally see a computer error in a picture. [ed note - picture titled "Woman at Window"]

One of the funniest things was the living hot dogs. They were moving hot dogs. One was plane, one s was still in a wrapper, one had mustard on it and in a bun - and they were all moving. And now I don't think I will ever look at a hot dog the same way again.

And now last but not least - the attack of the LIVING CCTV Cameras. There was a mother CCTV camera up in a tree and two baby CCTV Camera in the nest and another baby on the floor. It was probably saying, "You don't get the CCTV cameras the CCTV camera get you."

Graffiti can be bad for the earth but if it is done by Banksy it is very funny.

I would recommend anybody who reads my blog to go and see it.

My Later Impressions

I am really excited about the whole RV trip but also really sad. I can't decide if I am happy or sad. I am really a cross between the two.

I am really sad because I am going to be leaving all my friends and I probably won't be able to travel back to London again. I am also really really sad because I have lived in London almost all my life and I have lived on the same street for 6 years. 6 years is like forever when you are 7 years old.

I am really going to miss my bedroom and the view from the window when it is sunset or sunrise. From my bedroom window I can see most of the garden and part of the crematorium and part of our neighbours gardens. The colors in my garden are mostly green, black, gray and red. The red part is the shed and the playhouse. The green part is all the grass and plants and the bamboo. We have bamboo in the garden becasue I like pandas. The black part is the soil and the gray is the stones.

We have a swing set, a wagon, a playhouse, and a lot a lot a lot of green space. We also have a sprinkler and a hose. We have a lot of gnomes to take care of the garden - but I am not a gnome expert.

I will miss the London Eye, Big Ben, the aquarium, the Natural History Museum, and riding on Bus Number 82. I will miss the All You Can Eat Chinese Buffet especially because of the chocolate fountain.

The Spaniards Pub I will miss because it has good food and it is also really cool because there are ghosts living in the shadows - that are going to come and eat you!

But I am also really happy because we are going back to American where I was born and where all my family was born. We are planning on seeing most of our family - but not everybody. We are going to see my Oregon Grandpa, Mama Jo and Grandma and Grandpa.

And we are going to see some volcanos in Hawaii and have a ton of fun in the RV.

I am not a Volcanologist but I am hoping to become one.

As you can see I am both really sad and really happy. But I am mostly happy.

Ta ta for now.

Here's a picture I did in computer class. We had to draw what summer means to us. And, to me, it means the soon coming trip in the R.V.