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Raging fun at Raging Waters
Yesterday, for the YMCA field trip of the week, we went to Raging Waters. There, it’s like, water every where.
The first ride that we went on, was not exactly, a ride; it was a part of a gigantic water playground. The ride, went down, then to the right, and SPLASHHHHHHH! And water comes over your face. We did that a couple of times.
Then we started the real rides. The first one was called the Black Hole! As you know, black holes are black, because it absorbs everything, so even the light can’t come out. You have to go on a two person tube, to go on the ride.
First, you go in a couple of cork screws but thankfully it is not pitch dark there. It has a couple of lights every few feet.Then there is an opening on the side and AHHHHHHHHHHH, you go down…, then you land in a shallow pool, where you pass your tube to the next person in the line. May be it was called Dark Hole, it seemed like Black hole to me.
The next ride that we went on, was called Raging Racers.
In raging racer, you are sitting on a mat, head first, and you race down huge curves on a water slide. And at the bottom there was one that water shot out of the ground, and I thought the ride was over. But there was one more curve and I was not ready for it… so I went AHHHHHHHHH!
This ride was different from the others, because you had to sit in raft, which would carry five people. In this ride, we went on turns and if your back was faced to the wall, the raft, would be partially on the wall. In this ride, I was sitting with Lilly, Audrie, and a councellor named Berlyn.
Then it was the Dragon’s Den!
In this ride, there was one down side; there was an extremely long line to get on this one.
First, you are on the top; you go straight a little bit and then down in to a tunnel…AHHHHHHHHHH! Then you go inside this place and it circles around and then you go in to a smaller place and in to a small waterfall, and land inside a shallow pool; and sometimes the life guard pours water on you.
Isn’t it funny, he is supposed to save us, but he is pouring water on us using his megaphone!!!!
This was not a ride; it was an obstacle course. I tried to cross it, but my hands hurt, and the person before me kept swinging the rope, so I couldn’t get on to the next pad. So I fell in the water; but it was pretty shallow, so I could walk across.
I would give four “AHHHHHHH’ to black hole, I would give three AHHHHHHs to raging racers and four AHHHHHHs to thunder rapids, and three AHHHHHs to Dragon’s Den!
Whoooo, that’s a lot of AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs.
It was a raging fun outing; perfect for a hot summer day in Southern California.
Summer games : water fight – ready to soak anybody who comes within 100 meters of me.
I am ready with my super soaker.
Here is my Wordle : tags and words in my blog
Wordle is like a tag cloud; it takes the text from my blog and shows which word is used most often and scales it.
Doesn’t work too well, because it didn’t capture everything important from my blog, but it looks pretty.
I want the Bubble App
When my parents get the iPhone, I want Bubble App in it. It looks so cool.
First, you have to touch the screen and bubbles automatically appear. Then, you can try to pop them or just watch them fall to the bottom.
Source I heard David Pogue describe it on his Tivo show.
Colossal Fun at Colossus ride : Six Flags Magic Mountain Park Visit
[Click on the picture below for a better, full and scary view.]
I went on this roller coaster! Can you believe that?
I didn’t think this was going to be very scary, but trust me, I was terrified! Look at how huge and how high this thing is!
But after lots of ups and down, I felt good and excited. It was worth it! I was so scared that my throat was completely dry! I was so scared that I even screamed on the little bumps because I thought they were the “BIG ONES”, so I screamed ahead to prepare myself. And then after, I thought, “ohh.. that wasn’t big..” and then it stopped in the middle, and I thought it was done. By the time I had asked my seat mate, I was already at the next drop.
And what do you think, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…hhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
But over all, this roller coaster was awesome!
I also went to some other interesting rides, like Ninja
This ride was fun! Because it wasn’t like a regular coaster where you go on top of a track, but here you hang from the track and it makes very sharp turns. It’s little bit weird in the begening, because this guy keeps saying..
“have a good ride. Heiya….” like a little kung-fu Ninja…
We had to walk up a big hill to get there.
After that was Gold Rusher:
This was mild compared to others. It went fast, but it didn’t drop much; but it really had fun sharp turns like you see in the picture here. This would be a good ride to go to for your first roller coaster ride.
My favorite ride was the Log Jammer. It was fun, because you got wet! You will be floating in a log and you will be pulled up a little and then you will be going down two drops! The first one is kind of small, kind that gets you refreshed and alert and then the second one takes your breath away.
It was a fun, a colossal fun day for sure!
Now I know for sure that the Summer has started!
Me – mini-mized and lego-cized
Here is me mini-mized and lego-cized.
I am reading a lot these days, so the book is right and I am on the beach and I indeed was on the beach last weekend.
Now if I can just get a saber and a cape, I’ll jump in to Lego Starwars and save the galaxy!
Learning to play poker
The summer has started! Yesterday was the last day of the school!
One of the things we had talked about learning this summer was “how to play poker”. I have a lots of dominos from the domino derby games, so we used them to play. Three of us, my mom, my dad and me!
I thought it would be hard, but it wasn’t. I had to look up the chart to find out which combination is better than the other, but the game was pretty easy.
In a short time, we were playing variations of the game; like the lowest one wins; the month of your birth is a joker, to same cards are joker; and it was a lot of fun.
At one point, my mom and I got in to an intense game! I bet a lot of my dominos but I lost! My mom had better cards.
My dad told me about the the dogs playing poker paintings. Apparently there are 16 of them. Very funny.
I wonder if my dogs in my Nintendo DS can play poker?
One Wall Handball Explained:
I made this video inside of an antique filled living room – and NO DAMAGE! Nothing broke, nothing was knocked over!
That’s because I am pretty good at the Handball game. I can control the ball pretty well.
One Wall Handball Basics:
* The outdoor handball game is often played against a single wall, and is called one-wall handball.
* A point is scored when the ball hits the ground twice before an opponent can return it to the back wall. If the player returns the ball, but it hits the back wall before hitting the ground, it is also a point.
* Games are usually played to 21 points.
* It is always good to wear -gloves and eye protectors because a ball can travel very fast.
* When a handball player makes a shot that rebounds so low that his or her opponent has no chance of returning it, it’s called a kill shot or dead ball.
* “Rainbow” which a person could run underneath the ball without getting hit.
* We also have something called “buttercup” but it was the same as rainbow but except your hand goes under instead.
All the rules can be found here.
Dusknoir LV.X Pokemon – Raichu level X Pokemon – Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky
Love this Dusknoir Level X (LV X) that will come out soon!
These pokemon cards are from Pokemon -Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky – of course, when it comes to US, the name will be changed.
Level Up and HP 140.
Poke-Power: Ectoplasm
This Power can be used once, when this Pokemon is your Active Pokemon and its HP is reduced to 0 by an opponent’s attack. Although this Pokemon is Knocked Out, this 1 card is not discarded, but is put into play as a Stadium card (any other Stadium in play is discarded).
If this card is in play as a Stadium card, it has the following effect: “In between turns place 1 damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokemon,” and when it would be discarded this pokemon card is returned to your hand instead.
Raichu LV.X – Lightning – HP110
Level Up
Poke-Body: Chain Lightning
On the turn that this Pokemon Levels Up, if it uses Voltage Shoot, afterwards it can attack 1 additional time (and only once). This Poke-Body stops working if this Pokemon is affected by a Special Condition.
I also heard that there is going to be new move in Pokemon card game. For trainer cards, you could always use two of the same kind and in the same turn and the effect would be double. But in some of the newer cards, if you use one trainer card there is some specific effect, but if you use two of the same kind, the effect could be 8 times as much!
There is a Pokemon card called PokeHealer; if you have one of them, it removes one damage counter, but if you have two copies of the same card, it will remove 8 damage counters.
Here is the Pokehealer Pokemon trainer card.
I am playing a lot of Pokemon DS and Wii game, so I don’t get a chance to play the card games but it is an interesting game and I want to keep track of the rules and enjoy the artwork.
Thank you Pokebeach for card scans.