Random Words

I am in Sun Valley lying down on my bed with my eyes closed. I am wearing my green Holland shirt and some pants that are getting too small for me. I can tell because they are really short on me and my ankles are starting to show.

I am not alone in my bed.

I am with my brother’s polar bed Shotzy and my little polar bear Snowflake who I love and I got in Churchill, Manitoba and my lovely Teddy Bear Monty who is from Vermont.

My bed is a queen sized bed and I have it all to myself. It is very nice because it is very soft.

In this blog I shall say a completely random word and then describe them.

For example: Polar Bear. A soft, small creature which is one of the three most dangerous creatures on earth. The other two are alligators and I forget the other one. The polar bears that I have are 100 percent real. I know this because they told me when I first laid eyes on them. I first laid eyes on Monty when I was a baby. Snowflake I saw her in the Eskimo Museum in Churchill and she called out to me, “Simon, Simon. Help me, help me!” and she bounded towards me and I just had to get her. She told me she was only fed a quarter of a fish every day. It made me feel sorry for her so I had to rescue her. I had to free her. I just knew I had to. She came home riding on my arm and she has been with me ever since.

She loves to play with Monty and Ice Cube. Ice Cube is my other polar bear. Ice Cube is a boy my Mama Jo rescued for me from the San Diego Zoo. He was being ill treated because nobody ever paid attention to him. And I cannot imagine anything worse then not being paid attention to.

Ice Cube and Snowflake are long lost brother and sister. Ice Cube was very excited to go back to Churchill and Snowflake was very happy that I rescued her because she was starving. I could tell she was starving because it was hard to hear her over her tummy rumbling. But now she is nice and fine.

The next word: Green. Green is a color. A very nice color. My favorite color. I don’t really know why it is my favorite, it just is. When I see green it makes me feel calm and I like to feel calm. When I am feeling calm I am more creative in my thoughts and then I can think about…well, anything. When I use to look out the window in my old bedroom in London I would see lots of green – the grass, leaves, flower stems. I could see the green covers on our folding chairs. Green is the color of life.

The next word: Cupboard, also known as a wardrobe. They are very helpful. They help you to store things; however they don’t help you if you are putting them in storage. A cupboard can hold all sorts of things: boxes, stuffed animals, legos, pillows, baby cribs – pretty much anything – except a bigger cupboard.

If I was walking into an empty room and there was cupboard in front of me and I opened it up I would want to find candy bursting out at me. This magic cupboard would not have any drawers, it would be filled with candy. You could walk inside it and you could keep on going and it would never end. Candy for eternity. There would be every single type of candy like Twixt, Kit Kats, Three Musketeers, Maltessers, ice cream, every single thing that is not healthy for you. Everything that you would want. The Cupboard of Life – it would give you everything that you would want

However, I am afraid there is no such thing. If there is – please tell me because I would like to see it. And I would also like to go in it. Please send me a picture or a video. My email is simon@familyadventureyear.com

The next word: Candy. Something that all kids love and grownups despise. Something that you only love when you are a kid and never when you are an adult. So enjoy it now when you can, if you have already passed the time for candy then too bad for you.

Good bye for now. Signing off from the queen sized bed in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Marble Run

Here is a video of a marble run I constructed. Special thanks to my friend Jack C. for letting us stay in his holiday house and play with his toys.