My Holidays...

Well the holidays were pretty chill except if you count nearly being toppled by a mountain of suitcases,walking on black magnet sand, seeing thousands of fairy lights and nearly drowned by fake waves but otherwise it was pretty ok .

You want to know more of what happened let's talk about the first thing I said, well I was crammed in the back in our 7 seater car with the tower of Pisa made of suitcases, leaning on me. I looked out the window we were nearly there!We pulled in the gate I seriously thought we were staying in a house but no a CRATE! My heart stopped I was not going to sleep in a crate mum had other ideas. In the end it turned out pretty good I made a friend, feed ells at a creek, learned how to play pool and I felt magnificent magnet black sand! We stayed with two other families one of them was actually Jacobs family.

You want me to tell you about the black sand well it was BEAUTIFUL and soft it was like I was walking on clouds but of course it wasn't because I would drop to my death but… anyways I ran down the sand dunes and splashed into the sea!
A few days later we were watching a man fish he caught a baby shark! It was sooooooo cool The next bit is the best Austin saw that Jacob and the other family's oldest son run away so Austin thought he was cool and said.. ‘See you suckers!’To the fisherman, Dad and I then proceeded to run and tripped over his own two feet in the end he ate sand.     

 Bad karma I guess ☺️

The light show was amazing it was like a thousand fireflies in one place. There was a HUGE sleeping giant hanging in a tree. You would type in a specific address to spark  on messages and they would pretend to be the giant and text back. Dad texted…‘WAKE UP JEFF!’ (It's a thing me and dad have)The “giant” replied... “Children like you should not wake me up it's very rude”Dad replied “ Me rude how how dare you and I'm not a child!”Dad joked.

How about nearly being drowned by fake waves? We went to a pool in New Plymouth that had a slide that was 1000000 times faster than the lidos speed slide if you think that the lidos speed slide gives you insane wedges.
There was two slides one was the family slide and that was ok but the other slide wow. I walked up the stairs I looked down everything started to get further away like a hallucination. I climbed past the family's slide up to the turbo slide.when I got there my hand were trembling and my heart was racing I climbed up the step ladder to the mouth of the slide I held my breath sat down lay back and pushed….I closed my eyes and… WOO SSSHHHH!!!!!
I slid down the slide like a rocket or a missile launching . I made a squinting face like I just swallowed  glass of lemon juice because water flew in my face. Once the dip had finished it went straight that meant you didn't move so you had to kind of push yourself to the end. After about 5 seconds I landed in the splash pool grinning from ear to ear. I was so proud I jumped in the pool big mistake.  The waves were on! Not little ones GARGANTUAN ones. I was half drowned by the waves. Well that might be a little ott (over-the-top) I was doing backstroke and HEAPS of water went over my head but I managed to go to the side of the pool where it was safe I kind of didn't get the memo that most people had big boards so I got one and swam (still with the board) in. It was Such fun you would sit on the board and clench on for dear life and the waves would viciously rock you in all directions. In the end I had a AWESOME time!

Thanks so much for reading my story please leave a comment about what you did in the holidays!

Madeleine

Cross country

Ready…  Set… BANG, roared the gun. I sprinted up the hill pushing myself hard. Then I felt myself running down a hill at full speed. It was also very muddy and sticky. The smell of  cow poop went up my nostrils. I saw people passing me with red hot faces. I was speeding down the hill. I heard a squash and I looked down poop honestly was all over my shoe. How could that happen? But I had to keep going; this was AWFUL. I turned round the bend over another hill, then mud, then yet another hill! how many hills can one have on a farm? The sun was blazing down on me I saw a teacher. Below them was mud mud and more mud how could this get any worst! I saw the trees YAY (that's good by the way it means that it's nearly over) but there was one bad thing IT WAS ALL DOWN HILL I was not good with down hills as you know but I heard my mum cheering so I went hard and came in 13th.   Comment below when you had to go down a steep hill thanks or if you have done cross country.