saddest story

Recently we went to a Oklahoma City Memorial Museum about the bombing of the federal building that was destroyed by Timothy McVeigh. While it was fun to learn at the museum, it was very sad to read about the innocent people and children that died.

Timothy McVeigh was a bad person who bombed a federal building and there was a daycare and  it killed many people, including children. It was devastating.

In the museum there was stuff about the bombing and about McVeigh and Terry Nichols. They talked about McVeigh's arrest and the weapons and things he was carrying.

Outside the museum, there were a bunch a chairs to represent the people that died in the bomb and there was reflecting pool and it was just so sad.

This is a very sad place to be and deep down I was crying.

Oklahoma City Bombing Museum

late blog

Since our last blog we went up the coast and down the coast. Here are some highlights of that trip.

We stayed at a nice RV park in Buellton, CA. It is near the town of Solvang. Solvang is an old Danish town and it was very cute and very fun and we got candy and ice cream.

We visited two beaches while we were in Buellton, Gaviota and Jalama. Gaviota was under a train track and Amtrak trains go by and we found dead animal meat. Jalama was very rocky and we built a skeleton out of rock and it was very cool.

We found a real human skeleton at Jalama Beach

We also took a day trip to Santa Barbara. When we got to Santa Barbara we went  for a bike ride, and then to an art show and it was very pretty art there. Then we played on the beach and we made quicksand and it was hard to get out. This is how I made it: I went on wet sand and stomped in place and I could feel the sand get squishy and I started to sink slowly.

Our next stop was near San Jose. While we were there we went to the Tech Museum. I got a card to play the games there it was really fun. We got to build a robot and play a cyber detective game. We got to try a jetpack chair that was used to train astronauts for space walks.

Erin and I build a robot out of blocks at the San Jose Tech Museum

While we were near San Jose we went to the Monterey Aquarium. We saw an octopus climbing on the glass. He seemed to be curious about us. We also saw jellyfish, which were very beautiful.

Jellyfish at the Monterey Aquarium

Still another morning we went on a ferry boat to San Francisco, and from there we took a boat to Alcatraz. Alcatraz is an old jail on an island in the bay. We had a tour of it and it was very interesting.

Erin and I try a cell at Alcatraz -- not a good place to live!

Our next stop was near Modesto, where we saw Bill and Joy and Joy's mother and their dogs George and Rosie. I helped cook and I went on walks in the morning with the dogs.

After Modesto we went to Cayucos, CA. They had a pretty beach where we played every day.

Digging a hole at the beach in Cayucos

Cayucos is near Hearst Castle. The Castle was a house for William Randolph Hearst. We took a tour and we saw the rooms and the Roman pool which was a very fancy pool. At the visitor's center we watched a movie about how the house was built.  Just up the coast from the castle we saw elephant seals which were very smelly and fat.

After Cayucos, we headed back to Escondido, near San Diego.   We went to a beach and a marina in Oceanside where we played at the beach and walked around the harbor. Another day, Dad took me out for supper to Hooters, which is an owl-themed place.

My server at Hooters discussing owls with me.

San Diego

After Amarillo we went to Tucson. While in Tucson we went to a light parade. A light parade is when all the floats and people are covered in Christmas lights, it is their annual Christmas parade. It was very bright there.

Another thing we did was get new bikes and bike on a long trial. Tucson is building this trail and when it's done it will be around 150 miles long. We did about 11 miles of it and we saw two coyotes.

Another fun thing we did in Tucson was we went to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. When we got there we got to touch some baby stingrays and they were very slimy.  They also had a raptor display where birds flew over our heads and it was cool.

After Tucson we to San Diego and we are staying here for a month. There is so much to do here.

San Diego

We got to see the Safari Park. We saw many animals and my favorite part was we went to feed some lorikeets, which is a colorful bird and one climbed up my arm and landed on my head. There were flamingos, monkeys, elephants, and a cheetah running full speed.

A lorikeet on my head at San Diego Safari Park

We also went to Balboa Park.  The first thing we saw was a model railroad museum and it was soooooooo coooool. The trains were small size and there were lots of tracks and little towns and people. There had Waldo (from Where's Waldo) being arrested by Storm Troopers.

After the train museum we went to a photography museum and a art museum and there was a lot of things to see and learn. After that we saw a organ concert. The Spreckel's  Organ is the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world and they have free concerts on Sundays. After the organ concert there was a bell concert and is was a very pretty sound.

One of the reasons we came to San Diego is because the University of  Minnesota band was here to see the Holiday Bowl. My brother Reese played in the band. We went to see them play outdoors at a park in down town San Diego. They also marched in a parade the next day.

After the band left  Reese stayed with us for 2 weeks. When Reese got here, he, Erin, and I played games and do you know who won? It was Reese. Very disappointing.

We visited Point Loma. There is a light house there on the cliffs. You can also walk on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.

Point Loma

Another day we visited Coronado Beach. When we got there me and my sister made a sand castle and we played in the water. After the beach we went biking and my mom's tire went flat.

This week i got 4 new toys including a drone that flies but that fourth toy will come this Monday. The  three I already have are a hummingbird, Blinky from Pac-man, and last but not least is the Freddy plush from the game Five Nights at Freddie's.  The one I am waiting on is Toadsworth from Super Mario Bros on the Wii

My new toys

Arizona and the start of winter

Las Vegas
In November we went to Las Vegas again and we stayed in a hotel there. All of us met Penn and Teller and we walked around a lot and we ordered pizza for the room.


London Bridge
After Las Vegas we went to Lake Havasu in Arizona. We saw London Bridge and it was big. In England it was sinking, so they took it apart and brought to Arizona.

Our famliy by the London Bridge

Musical Instrument Museum
 Then we went to Phoenix and to the Musical Instrument Museum. So we saw many instruments from the world. Some of the instruments were wacky and we got to play some instruments.

Elvis' jumpsuit and guitar at the Museum

Cold, cold, more cold
After Phoenix we went to Winslow, Arizona and then to Amarillo, Texas and it was pretty boring at that campground it was really cold there.  We were happy to leave there and go to somewhere warm.

Busy Days

Yesterday I went on a tour boat of Lake Powell. It was a 90 minute boat ride and it was fun. We saw mountains and rock formations. The lake was created by a dam to store water for 4 states.

I got my hair dyed purple 2 nights ago. There were steps to do it and I had to wait 50 min for each of them.  The first step was to put bleach in my hair and the next step was to wait 50 min. Then we had to wash it off with a shower head. The next step was to put the purple dye in my hair and I had to wait 50 min again and after the 50 minutes I had to wash it off and it looked cool on my hair.

My new purple hair

The day before we went to the Grand Canyon.  We did a hike there and after the hiking we were all hungry and thirsty so we had a picnic lunch and some soda and water.  It was a fun trip.

Grand Canyon

Vegas and Utah

One day we went to Las Vegas to stay at a camp ground and it was called Circus Circus. The next day we went to a magic show. My parents thought it was funny. There was a bear that came out of a tent. Then the magician ate a Guinea pig and then it later showed up in his pants. Later we had supper with Jen, my mom's dog trainer friend from MN.

After Las Vegas, we went to Utah. We drove up a mountain at Zion National Park and we went hiking there and it was a long hike and we were on the edge of a cliff. We drove through a very long tunnel.

My toy skull at Zion National Park

Near St George we rented a dune buggy and it was very bumpy and we had lots f fun and we went on giant sand dunes.

The dune buggy we rented

In central Utah we went for a short hike and saw some hieroglyphs carved in the rock. Nobody nows how old the writing is or what it means or who wrote it. It could have been Incan or Mayan writing. After the hiking we went to a creek.

Unknown hieroglyphs

At Fillmore we rode our bikes to the museum. We learned about Utah Territory. Fillmore was the first capital of Utah.

While in Utah we drove to Provo to see our cousin Jake and we went hiking and it was about 2 and a half miles up to the hot springs and water fall and we dipped our feet into the stinky water but it was very hot. Also in Provo, we went to Walmart and I found my toy that was supposed to come in November but out of nowhere we found the Cupcake from Five Nights At Freddy's.

My new toy

A screenshot from Five Nights At Freddy's.

a new dog and other stuff

We spent the last few weeks in central California.

On September 8th we to see our grandparents and their dog named George and one day we went to pick up a new puppy and everybody came along and her name was Linda. This is a picture of Linda.

We took George to Yosemite and my mom and dad and sister went hiking while i stayed with Grandma and  Grandpa and I had a soda.

On September 17 we went to the Monterey Jazz Festival to see Davina and the Vagabonds and it was a good time there. On Sunday we went to the Greek Festival and the food was really good and the dessert was baklava and i did not like it.

Then we left to go to a different campground and this was no ordinary campground, this was a air force base. The next  day we went to the heritage center at Travis air force base.

On Monday we went to the JELLY  BELLY FACTORY and it had a lot of candy and we had lunch there and after the the factory we went to a castle winery and me and my sister had grape juice and they showed us the dungeon and the torture room and we had a good time there.

Later in the week we went hiking at Muir Woods and it was so pretty there. We also went to Point Reyes and we saw a deer herd.