Sagada Philippines November 19, 2014

When we went to Sagada we experienced a lot of things. We didn't know it was a walking town, there were no tricycles no jeepney or buses that would go where we wanted to. First we went to see the hanging coffins it was easy to hike some of the way, but then it turned slippery and got really hard. After that our shoes were so muddy. The next day we went to the Sumaguing cave the walk there was long, we saw more coffins on the path to the cave. The cave adventure was scary but it was worth it. There were so many bats in fact I thought I touched bat poop one time. Then we went rappelling in the cave but there was one area that I didn't rappel from.

Blue Man Group Show Las Vegas

We went to see the Blue Man Group show in Los Angeles . It was very loud and had many led flashing lights, and it was almost unpredictable what would happen next. It was really funny especially because they would get people in the crowd to come up as volunteers which made it even more unpredictable. There were so many clever sequences and made me question reality and virtual. They would never talk during the show so they played thir part really well. They had so many different songs to play with some wierd instruments. At the end we all had a party with loud music, led light, and many other things.

Pluto Lowell Observatory

When we went to the observatory it was raining.  We looked around at the visitors centor at the meteorite and at theexhibhits they had set up. Then we went and looked at the Sun through a telescope that lets you look at the Sun, and a man told us a lot of things about the Sun too. Then we watched a video and took a walking tour. We stoped at the Pluto Observatory and the tour guide told us we would go there second. We stoped and he talked about the man and how Pluto was the abbreviation (PL) of a man named Perceval Lowell.  Then we went into the observatory that was meant to become a library. Then we went to another telescope but after that it started raining and we went home. 

CSI Total Experience

The CSI total experience was fun solving a case. We had to find bloodstains and they would put you on a certain case. We got put into case 1. We had to write down what we saw I mostly saw bloodstains and beer on our case. Then you would have to find things like what type of blood splatter it was or who's footprint it was. We would have to wait sometimes cause there weren't a lot of computers for us to use. Then we did our final report and I got the same one my mom did.

The Titanic Exhibit

We saw many artifacts from entittanic at its exhibit. There where more artifacts than I expected they would have at the exhibit. The exhibit was short but had lots of stories to tell. We got to see some of the hallways and rooms of the different classes. There was even a  grand staircase  it was very well done and symmetrical. Then we saw the biggest piece recovered from the titanic,  it was big and only a little part of the titanic. It showed what passengers carried in their luggage and how much the 3rd and 1st class cost. 

Bodies Exhibit

When we went to the Bodies Exhibit I got sick. My mom said that they even used real bodies in the exhibits which made me even sicker. It was a small exhibit but it had so many different rooms talking about different subjects.There were so many parts of the body it showed, I was creeped out that they would preserve and keep a real human bodie there. It showed the process of how they preserved the bodies and stated facts about the subject of the room on the wall. It showed the muscles of athletes and said where the muscles were located. That was our trip to the Bodies Exhibit.

Meteor Crater

When we went to Meteor Crator we saw a real meteorite. Then we saw a presentation and watched a movie about how that think the meteor could have hit to create the crator.  When we went to see the view the crator was so big but they said it was small compared to the other crators. It was rainy that day so it was still a bit wet. Then we ate lunch, it was pouring at that time. Then we left to our next hotel.

Grand Canyon

When we went to the Grand Canyon we didn't take a tour but we saw a lot of the views. A lot of the views were close to the edge. My mom kept getting scared even though I wasn't going anywhere near the edge. We saw some people sitting on the edge with no railings. The view was great and it was a long way down. We went to the vistitors center but didn't stay long because it was closing soon.We only stayed for 2 hours and left. That's about all we did at The Grand Canyon.

Hoover Dam

When we went to Hoover Dame we went on a our that took us inside the dam. The tour was very short and before the tour we saw a video talking about how the dam was created. In the tour we got split up from the people without wristbands who only got a little bit of the tour(we had wristbands).We went on with our tour and saw the stairway to heaven staircase it was really long. That's when we turned around and got cramped in the elevator the same way we did to get to that area in the dam. It was kinda boring because we were just taking photos inside the dam. After the tour we saw another thing that was audio of the dam and the things would light up the places they were talking about. Thats about a wrap of all the things we did in Hoover Dam.

Our Trip to Yosemite

When we went to Yosemite we took the Grand Tour (on a bus) a 8 hour tour. We saw many different sights like Glacier Point. It took so long from the start to get to Glacier Point, but the tour guide talked about the other things you could see on the way. half way through our tour we had a lunch break, you needed a ticket to get lunch, the food they served was good. I slept on the bus for a long time because it took a long time to get to one place we would stop at. While we were going back I was glad that we could go to our hotel and rest. While we were going down the mountain to our hotel I got sick. That's about everything that happened in our round trip to Yosemite.

Our Death Valley Adventure

Today we went to the Death Valley National Park. To get there we went through the Mohave Desert. It got up to temperatures of up to 105 - 120 during the whole trip. There were many different sights to take pictures on the mountains and on the ground. We also went to Randsburg the Ghost Town of tourist attraction we had lunch there. There were lots of different towns we passed along the way. Once we got to Death Valley National Park we started taking more photos and videos. I got sick halfway through Death Valley while going down the steep hills.

Tennis tournaments

I went to my friend Vince Marc TaboTabo's tennis tournament. It was a USTA Northern California tournament. I was the photographer I took all the photos of them. Vince is on a team called the Avengers. They were able to make it to the finals but lost. Even though they lost they joked around even when I was taking pictures of them with their medals. The tennis matches were close and there was a 50% chance that we could've won. Every photo I took I had to time just to make sure it was perfect. There were some pictures that ended up looking funny. Almost everyone's family members were there to congratulate them even though they lost because they still made it to the finals. It was fun getting to go to the tournaments and I hope I go again.

Steve Jobs' House

We went and saw Steve Jobs' House. We got to see the garage he worked in. We got to see his neighbor hood. It was amazing to see where the famous entrepreneur worked at when he made his first apple product. It looked like a normal house and blended in perfectly. Over all I think it was a great experience even though it was a short experience.

Bucks Wood Side

We went to Buck's Wood Side and learned some things about the place. Many entrepreneurs went there. It had many different scupltures and paintings that were very artistic. The food there was really good. There were a lot of people coming in and out of the place, every time I looked out the window there was someone coming to eat. It took a little wait to get your food, because of all the customers being served, but the service was still great.

Honesty

My mom and I talked about the subject of honesty. We talked about if it's ok to hurt someone's feelings by being honest or lying to avoid hurting their feelings. I thought it was ok to lie if you were doing it to avoid someone from being hurt, but my mom said eventually that the person would find out you were lying. My mom said you would only be buying time for yourself. So I thought about it and I said how would they find out you were lying if it bought you time?

And we came to the conclusion that honesty was the best answer, even though you would hurt someone's feelings.

Hiller Aviation Museum San Carlos, CA

We went to the Aviation museum to learn and see the different planes. We saw the Wright Brothers plane, which looked uncomfortable and hard to steer. Then we went around and looked around at the many different planes, helicopters, and other things that fly. There was a flight simulated we tried it was hard at first but then it got easier. We saw many planes we thought some of them wouldn't fly at all. There was some that could fly but we thought it couldn't. Then we went to see the cockpit of a plane but there was too many people. We saw some jetpacks and a vertical flying model. There was a plane where you had to push yourself off by running.