Our new cousin

Introducing Calaya! She's our beautiful new cousin. She was born the day after Thanksgiving and we got to meet her this week.

Volleyball games!

WOW I haven't posted in a long time!
Today I had my first volleyball games! My team lost our first game 14-15 we won the second game 16-25 we won our third game (I don't remember the score to the rest of the games) but I think we won our fourth game and lost our fifth.
On my team we have Katie F.,Brianna D.C., Alexa R., Makenna C., Olivia S., Gabby H., and me, Sarah M.
My cousin Penelope was there, my aunt Monica, grandma, grandpa, and mom.
In my next post hopefully I will have my pictures downloaded onto my computer and put some on!
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Sarah

New picture of Brownie

My grandpa told me that I have not posted in a long time and I finally looked at my blog and he was right! I haven't posted since I went to Canada and that was a long time ago! Here is a picture of Brownie.









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Sarah

Journal #5

Dear Journal,

It is the end of the day! Today Grandma and I walked down through town to check the price of the ski lift. On the way back to the condo we watched a biker show and they were doing tricks like riding their bike over a thin rope on one wheel, doing a spin-jump of of a 5 foot platform! And they did all of this without touching the ground with any part of their body!

Tomorrow we will go up the ski lift even though we planned to do that today ... We didn't go today because the weather got all rainy......

To keep ourselves busy we painted and for dessert we walked to Cows!!! But now I don't feel good... (I think I ate too much ice cream...)

Sincerely,
Sarah

Journal #4

Dear Journal,
So far today we walked to the bank to exchange our American money for Canadian money!! And for using their bank I got an extra 56 cents!!! After that we came back to the condo and got ready to go to cows!!! When we got there we bought some things (I'm not going to mention what I bought because I want to show my parents what I bought instead of just telling them on my blog). Then we brought our stuff that we bought back to the condo and got ready for another walk to Lost Lake... So through the whole day we walked about 6 kilometers (4 miles, but here they use kilometers instead of miles).
Tommorow we are going to paint on the canvas' that Grandpa brought and go up the ski lift!!!!



Ok, now I want to explain Canadian money... Just like in America there is the 10,the 20, and the 5.
There is a Loonie and a Toonie... A Loonie is a 1$ coin and a Toonie is a 2$ coin... There isn't a dollar bill for the 1 and the 2....


Well I have to go now..

Sincerely,
Sarah

Swimming

Journal #3

Dear Journal,
Today we went on two walks!!! First we walked to the Blackomb ski lift! And for the second we walked to the Whistler ski lift. So we walked about 3 miles altogether. I got some GREAT pictures. Oh! I almost forgot to mention that we went swimming in the pool! Amanda and I went from the pool to the hot tub to the pool etc. We also wnt to see the movie Wall-e! That was a GREAT movie.... With Eve and of course the main character Wall-e.

We had a good dinner of Tuna Sandwiches and Fried Rice! We watched 30:00 of hula dancing and we danced along too but it was more like shaking you hips REALLY fast! Well I have to go now...

Sincerely,
Sarah

Whistler

Today we are about to go on a walk. (This is not one of my journal entries). So we can see the town and take some nice pictures. We are also going to go to the Market and maybe buy some nice stuff...

Well I have to go get ready...


Sincerely,
Sarah

Journal #2

Dear Journal,
We are on the road right now but we are past the border that separates Canada from the United States! My grandparents said that at the border the line usually takes and hour to get through and this is their 11th time coming in Canada. When we got to the border there wasn't a line at all...
Seriously there was a line of zero. We got through in about 2 minutes!!! YAY!

I just figured out how to use a calling card phone..... WOW! There is A LOT of numbers to type! But we are using our parents calling card sooooo, I kinda had to, and I don't think that Amanda could operate the thing...

Well anyway, right now we are on the mountain that Whistler is on... We are about 55 minutes away from Whistler... We just went through the city of Squamish, where part of the 2010 Olympics will be held. There will also be Olympics in Whistler! When we watch the winter Olympics of 2010 we can say like, "Oh I was there" , or "I saw that!" Wow I have been writing and stopping and writing and stopping etc. for almost 2 hours now!

I think I should stop now so I can look at the mountains... Did I mention that we are in the Rockies? (Rockie Mountains). Well It's true, Whistler is in the Rockies... I just figured that ourt about when I started writing...

Sincerely,
Sarah

Canada

Ok we are now in Canada as you might of heard. But I will be on the computer every so often and I will be typing my journal entries as I go! Ok well I am going to start one right here.





8/8/08


Dear Journal,

Today my mom drove us to Eugene to meet my grandparents for lunch. My dad couldn't come because he was working and he can't take a 5 hour break... We left the mall with our grandparents to go to Target. We met my mom there to buy Amanda a car seat because we forgot to bring one with us... (The van that we came in has built in car seats so we didn't worry about that until we got to Eugene.

So my grandparents drove Amanda and I to Portland and we are spending the night there! In the morning we want to head out around 8:00 AM so that we can reach the border in the afternoon.

We are supposed to reach the border around 3:00 and from the border it will take us about 3 hours to get to Whistler. We will be staying in a condo on the second floor! The bathroom Amanda and I are sharing has a shower with 2 shower heads so we don't have to fight over who gets the water for so long while the other one waits shivering.

Well I will write more tomorrow when we get there.

Sincerely,

Sarah