Bridie’s Blog

Tonight is a special night. Tonight my cousin from America is coming over for dinner. I haven’t seen him in quite a while and I am really looking forward to it. He has been living in America for over 2 years and now he has moved back to New Zealand. 

Today I played netball for my team the Mini Marshmallows. We lost big time. It was a very close game at the start but after the half time we lost it. The other team got alot of goals. I was quite disappointed because I would have liked to win this game but at least we were kind of close.

Hayleigh, my freind, stayed over last night. We had ALOT of fun laughing and giggling until about midnight when we finally fell asleep.  We were doing the 20 hour famine but we didn’t have any sponsors so it didn’t really matter that we ate dominoes for dinner and magills for afternoon tea. WHOOPS?

We got a call early in the morning from my Uncle and we knew straight away that the baby had been born. It was a boy as me and my sister had said all along. He had blonde hair and looked alot like my Uncle. This morning as we were all laying in bed the phone rang and it was my Uncle again. And after 8 days Baby Mac(he was called this because of his last name) had finally gotten a name. My Aunty is Scottish so we knew it would be something scottish. His name is now Machrie Harris. You pronounce it Makree and it is a scottish name. My uncle has now got 4 children. This picture is of my Uncle with Machrie and then two of my cousins Ella is the oldest one and Gracie is the younger one. I am very happy to have a new cousin and I am really glad its a boy because we don’t have many boys in the family and it was nice to have a change.

On the 8th of April 2008 we left to go to Ohope. Room three and Room seven left at 10:00. We all piled into our cars and Megan and I were in the school van. We stopped off at Okataina Lake and had lunch and a bit of a run around. We went for a walk in the bush while we were there and w hen we got to the end there was a sandy beach. It was very cold and windy that day so we didn’t stay for long. We got back into our cars and drove until we got to Ohope Christian Camp. When we got there we set up our rooms and went outside and played around. Some of the boys played rugby, some played soccer and most of the girls sat around playing games. When it was 5:00 we went in our cars off to the pools. We got to go on the hydroslide but there was a very long line. The hydroslide was lots of fun though. When everyone had had enough we went back to the camp for dinner. We went down to the hall and had Spaghetti and a meatball for dinner. Then we got jelly and Ice-cream for dessert. Then it was time for bed. When we got up we had to go down to the hall to have breakfast.  Then we got ready for our day ahead. Room seven were going off in there activity groups and room three were going on the high ropes and after to THE AMAZING MAZE!!! At the high ropes we played some games and did trust falls. Megan was my partner. We guided our partners through obstacle courses and then they guided us. We then ate lunch. After lunch we got our safety gear on ready to go on the high ropes. We had to wear helmets and also things that looked like nappies. This was in-case we fell off. Hayley  got to demonstrate what to do so she climbed up the ladder and walked along a log with nothing to hold onto. After that everyone spread out to go on which ever one they wanted to.  I went onto these wires that you had to walk along a wire and you had two wires to hold onto. It was quite scary but you feel proud of yourself when you have done it. Then we went off to The AMAZING Maze made completely out of Maize.  It was really fun because we got lost so many times and kept going to the same question. After a very long time running around to the same things, it was time to go. We all drove back to camp so that we could get ready to go to the pools again. This time we weren’t allowed on the hydro-slide so we all just hung around in the pools. The next day we went to all the activities and room 7  went to the high ropes and maze. First my group went to Shelly Bay but the tide was in so we didn’t get to see any rock pools. We went for a paddle but I ended up getting soaked with water. Then we went to Fishing. I caught three tiny little fish. It was fun. Then we went kayaking. I fell out trying to save Georgia. It was the most fun kayaking. Then we went back to camp and we went to the hot pools. They were lots of fun. Sadly it was time to go home. Camp was lots of fun and I would love to do it again.

On Friday I went on the bus with Hayleigh to go and stay at her house for the night. We got to sleep at about Midnight and had to get up at 5.00!! We got up and got dressed ready to go to the Mount. We got to the mount at about 8.30 ish and went to a cafe for Breakfast-Lunch. We then went back to Hayleigh’s Dads house and put all our stuff away. Then we went to Bayfair. We bought some Ice-Creams and lots of shoes and clothes. We walked back to Hayleigh’s Dads house. We just hung around there for a while but then we went to Baywave which was alot of fun. We went on the hydroslide. We waited there for the wave pool to turn on. The wave pool came on every half an hour for 15 minutes. We went back to Hayleigh’s dads and then we ate pizza for dinner and went to bed. We watched American Pie: The wedding whiel we were in bed. Then we went to sleep. When we woke up , we decided we wanted to go to the pools again so we got our wet togs on and went back to the pools. We had lots of fun but then we had to go back to Te Awamutu. We got an Ice-Cream on the way home. It was lots and lots of fun.