Wednesday the 25 of February 09 to the 1st of march

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On Wednesday Dad and I went to see Cardiff City vs The Queen's Park Rangers in football. Les and Rich and Steve said the game was crap but it was a good atmosphere. It ended up as a nil all draw. Cardiff were missing their striker so they probably would of won if they had him. The crowds are so funny over here they do heaps of chants and they sing songs. I still would rather go to a Collingwood game. School is going good. Mum and Dad are thinking of going to Turkey for the Easter hols. Also we are going to London again for Commonwealth day it should be good.

Also it was St Davids on the first of March. In the morning we were watching Australia play cricket then we went to watch the march through the City. The best thing in the whole march were these kids on these bouncy things and they were doing back flips and there also were
people playing bagpipes and there were dancers and plenty of other things.

23 to the 26 of feb 2009

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I am sorry that I haven't been posting much. On the way back from Egypt we stoped off at Amsterdam, there we saw Ann Frank's house and the Van Gogh museum. Ann Frank's house was really good, you got to walk through all the different rooms and how they were decorated. You don't know how small it is untill you are in there . It was very small I couldn't live in there for that long. Mum and Dad loved it they thought it was really well made. For lunch we sat around a table and Mum and Dad had a beer and ate bread sticks that we bought in Egypt and Declan and i had a slice of pizza and a coke. We weren't allowed in the specal coffie shops. After lunch we went to the Van Gogh museum when we got there, there was a huge line and we waited in it. It only took us 30mins to get to the front of the line. When we got in there we looked through the numerous paintings that were there. Julie you would of loved it but it didn't really sink in to me nor Declan. Some of the work he did was really good. On the way back from there we walked through a park where they were play ice hokey it looked like so much fun. Also on the way back we went through the red light district right on opening but we got out of there.

Egypt 15th to 19 of feb

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Egypt has been good. Some of the sites we seen have been majestic. Especially Great Pyramids and the Sphinx it is amazing that they carved it out of one block of limestone. We have also been to Aswan there we saw the unfinished obelisk it was no that good it was just a pole with a pyramid on the top and it wasn't that good and we saw the Temple of Philae it was ok. Also when we were there we went to Abu Simbil which was a 3 hour drive and we had to wake up at 3 am to leave in the convoy because if you breakdown you are in the middle of nowhere. When we got there it was about 7 am. But it was worth the early mornning almost. The front of it had had 4 massive statues.

And inside there were some chambers with more of the same hieroglyphics. Then were got the train to Luxor it was as bad as the first train.

There will be more added later.
The Temple called Philae at Aswan.

Funny photo infront of the sphinx (Giza) See all the Photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/andy.v.wain/

2/2/09 to the 4/2/09

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On Monday night it snowed. The next day Dad had to take mum to work and the car was covered in snow. We had to go to school there were only a couple people there, the Principal hadn't yet called it off. Then at 8:30 it was called off and we went home. There I tried to make a fort, where we were going to have snow ball fight. The fort did not turn out that well, it is harder than it looks. Then we had a snow ball fight I destroyed Declan. All he did was get lots snow to make a big one, it was a waste. Then we made Frosty the snow man, it didn't look that good, it is hard when u have used all your snow in a snow ball fight. There may be more tonight, maybe another day off. YES!!!!!