The Meaningful vacation

Today I am writing about this particular vacation because normally, since our family went to Las Vegas three times before and we practically know everything, also because we went to Las Vegas for vacation. However boring it might of sounded it was pretty unusual and a unique trip that was more than just TV and other hotels. On the first day of vacation, we had to drive I knew this route well because of the various times I was on it.  First (from our location), you get onto the Interstate 5 freeway and drive to CA 55 after a few miles it will merge onto CA91 soon you get to the junction of Interstate 15 and CA 91 you drive on 15 for a while and then get to Las Vegas. I knew which cities were ahead so just waited while played on the I pad. After that we went into a cozy hotel and played the rest of the day. The only fun thing about the drive was that we arrived at 1PM as we normally arrive at 6 so I thought that was okay. Before I slept I downloaded a new game. I changed what I did sometimes I played other times I watched TV.

    Hey do you think day two would be any better than day one? Spoiler: WRONG! It might have been worse. It started out okay the same way we ended day one. Then we went to ski in Lee Canyon Road. We waited long and I pretended to be crazy by saying Lee Canyon Roade in an accent. When we arrived we payed five dollars. Then when we tried to ski we realized gear was 110 dollars not including the entry fee. It was so cold that my sister didn't want to ski. In fact, we went out about 20 minutes after we came in without doing anything!! So we wasted 5 dollars. Later when we went home. I had three things to complain about. Number one money, Number two waste of TIME!, and number three our CO2 emissions.  The rest of the day we just watched TV and played too so it was pretty much like yesterday. Today I had an uncomfortable sleep on the ground like yesterday.

    Day three was way better than day one or two we went to Fire Valley State Park. There were many memorable photos taken over there. I learned many things. I surprised my dad with interesting facts and gave me the name," Linlinkipedia." I learned who lived here in the old times. I sometimes didn't agree with my own opinion that this place was once a sea until I went to the museum. I bought a rock with a carving of a bighorn sheep. We climbed places and found some strange things. I showed off some of my preffered ninja attack moves. I taught my sister a little of what I know about geology. I think she found a bit of mica somewhere. I thought it was way better than the other two days. I learned about the color of the sandstone reasons and most importantly today Petroglyphs. These are carvings in rocks by ancient people who lived here. I saw many and they were very important in history that your own carvings or damaging them is forbidden. I loved this place and was a bit sad when we had to go. I wanted to go home but my mom decided that tomorrow we would go to Utah another day instead. So today I slept on a bed and it was better than the other two days. My mom and dad had to go to shows so we were impatient when we walked in a hotel. We saw tulips that looked like balloons but really were stainless steel! I slept there hoping to go home already though I did like vacation. I didn't want to leave this hotel and go to a new one.

   The next day was not as good as day three but better than one and two in terms of boringness. We went driving on 15 all the way to La Verkin Utah. We saw the hotel and went into Zion National Park. I felt soft snow for the first time ever. We had 2 hours before dark and looked at everything I wanted to go to the museum but it was not open in winter. We then went into the new hotel. My mother and I went to the fitness center. She ran about 2.7 miles while I ran 1 mile, biked a mile, and played on the yoga ball. I liked it there. Sleep was the worst part in the hotel of all of it. I rolled consistently off the bed. When I woke up it was 6 AM. We got dressed then went to eat a buffet breakfast. I loved everything there. When we were headed back home at 9 it took so long. We were near highway 9 and it took us back to I15 south. In about 45 minutes we made it to Nevada. In about 1 hour and 45 minutes we made it to Las Vegas.  At about 12:30 we ate lunch at Subway near the state line. 2 hours and 20 minutes later we got to Cajon pass and crossed to I 10 West. We drove to Mont Clair in 30 minutes and tried to buy a car at the autoplex place. My family waited 3 hours and could pick up the car tomorrow. We then went to eat at In-N-Out in Pomona taking 10 more minutes. I payed attention to the city limits on 57: Diamond Bar, Brea, Fullerton, Annahiem. Then we got back on I5 and passed Santa Ana and Tustin to get back to our home. We were truly tired and arrived at about 9:00 PM. This vacation meant much and I realized we had been in 4 states in a single day.

 

Artifact World

Once upon a time there were lots of builders, carpenters, magicians, miners, lumberjacks, quarrymen, laborers, and blacksmiths in a world. They spent hour after hour day after day nonstop building things. Magicians had predicted this species would be extinct but other animals would need their power in survival. Also, another closely related species would uncover these and the magic is saved. The artifacts must of been built with materials. A combination of materials was needed to preserve it for millions of years. By one year, all gatherers were done and became builders. In 3 months, before the end. No one had a job except the magicians and the other ones were supposed to cheer on the magicians. In one day, no one was employed and prepared. They sold their homes and waited thinking about happy moments. After the end of this species, the world was normal with a historic path of extinction and revival.
     10 million years later, a closely related species had mastered civilization and had valuable enough equipment and an artifact was uncovered by a mining company. The boss was given the power and secretly noticed it seemed to overwhelm him and likely was for enough to give the whole mining company legit power.  He discovered the child of any two magical blessed people could have another wizard without an artifact and wanted to preserve his power and gave half to his wife. He never said this, but a news reporter spread the news of these artifacts. Then a year later the same on reported, "I've never seen so many holes in the ground and am woken up so early to the sound of jack hammers." Later many people found that some were hidden hard and the ones who found them would keep the secret to them selves that the power was very high and enough for a lot of people. Poor people watched as the mining equipment just dug for rich people.
    No one wanted to give up on magic so a war broke out and each alliance was suspicious that another alliance had hogged the artifacts all and members didn't trust each other at all.  This war was with swords because long ago guns had been banned as well as bombs and other modern weapons. This kept the war as safe as possible. However desperate they were to use those they had forgotten how to make them. Most poor people could also only watch as the armies clash as alliances wanted good soldiers who would contribute not just steal power. Poor people had no fighting education. Yet they had trust in each other. They formed a club called,"searching club." They found each other's strength and weaknesses and hoped that they could share the power with all of them because they didn't want full power they just wanted some to give them luck or happiness. 
      The important child members were called Suppy, Liz, Ann, Mary, Dennis, Jack, Jenny, and  Jackson. The adult leaders were: Finley and Annie. They helped all each other and all of them had influence and were smart, so most members followed their orders anyway.  They decided not to mine and wanted to have a great view so they could see if it was anywhere. So they were told all to bring supplies and walked up the highest mountain they knew. Soon, the group reached the top and saw all the holes made and bases with claims of land where they mined. They found an even higher mountain and didn't really want to go down and up so they found some reeds and tied them together. After that they roped over to the other summit and saw an even higher one and got to the highest where they truly saw everything on the planet. Including the last artifact, however they didn't know what it was. They just felt it near and they naturally did the same thing to reach mountaintops. They found it and realized they could split it and still be powerful. They then made peace and soon it was again predicted extinction so they just did the same thing as before but this time left notes on them saying," Don't take all or be warned. Share or wait for poor ones to save you rich ones." In turn they left the most powerful artifact on the place which was hard to reach alone. Each generation did the same and the world was named Artifact World.

12 prized children

   Once upon a time there were a kind couple. They had many children which was slightly unfortunate because they were the poorest people in the world and had enough only for all of them and couldn't rent a single square inch of land. They lived illegally on other people's land. Since they lived in the time of Feudalism they couldn't be anywhere while being a criminal. So the richest they got was 2.44999999 square centimeters of land then were caught and their land was stolen by the greedy king. These two families in ancient times had rivalry for being king. The first king of the other family used trickery and eventually everyone gave the bad kings loyalty and when they figured out the king murdered all who knew so soon people thought the current king was good.

     Of the family, the oldest was Krista the other ones were in older to youngest order Kirsty, Zack, Liza, Jack, Addie, Alex, Chloe, Benjamin, Joshua, Katie, and Bryan. One day Krista thought of a plan. She told her parents that they could do services in exchange for money. Due to this they earned lots of money. They built a fort. It made the king think,"Uh! They have land I will send my weakest troops to attack!" Liza in the family was a negotiator she reasoned with the army that they don't need to fight each other and it is fair that we have land. Liza let them sleep in the fort with protection and they slept outside alert in case the king attacked again.

     They protected them and no one in the fort was hurt. The army was grateful for it. The commander of the army even gave $10.00 per soldier in return for their kindness. The 12 children thought to move away. They put a new fort in between the long road between two major cities in the kingdom. They built good beds and used nearly all their funds. At day very few people weren't grateful for protection and proper sleep that the customers started making it traditional to pay $12.00 per night though at least $1.00 must be payed. If you think most customers payed $1.00 you are wrong in fact no one gave less than $5.00 before. They built the hotel inside the fort and fields that they took care of were inside the fort to avoid the king from being suspicious. The sun light was directed above the fort so the fields could not be seen by enemies but still get sunlight. They soon made it easier and easier to feed the people of the hotel.

    Then the king heard of the hotel and decided to put it under siege little did they know that the fields were inside anyway. The occupants still ate and they were protected wisely. The king was tired of waiting and decided to attack before his order reached the troops. Jack and Zack had formed a plan with Krista and the two boys jumped out the fort to try to trick the troops to thinking they were sneaking food. They ran to the old fort where they shot arrows and the troops fled. Jack and Zack went to another field one enemy spy thought he had found the food supply then he ordered the troops to attack the field. The children and their customers made many weapons for preparation. The army was forced into retreat and the children befriended some of the soldiers. The king was forced to be fair. Later the hotel was a popular place to live. In the history of the family. The 12 children were remembered as important to the family.

The book series

Today I am writing because I recently read so many books of a single series that now I read them and finish each book in a day. I think that all of the series is already published so I can read every day. I have been obsessed with the series ever since it was on the book 100 things to do Before You Grow Up.  One of the tasks was completing a book series. I did two out of the 5 recommended series there. At school I noticed that they had the series so I brought one home each day reading one of them. It got interesting. I liked it because it was in so many different points of view and you keep wishing one wins but as in most people you don't like it if a main character dies. Even if that character is evil for a while. As in most books you always think,"What happens next?" Once while I was reading a book the suspense was so high I read it when I wasn't supposed to first at 11:00 P.M then at 4:00 A.M. i enjoy the variation of different books to make me look at a similar situation differently. I truly liked this series.

The pinewood derby

Today I raced with my cub scout pack at the pinewood derby. It was mainly exciting today because I had a lot of theories to test out and that I was eager to win a prize because I never got one based on skill or design of the car. Also, my best friend told me that I could win and I specially tested it. I was impatient and felt like I had waited 45 minutes though it was only 15 minutes. When I did the speed race I was slightly disappointed when I got second place though. on the next part you push your car but you have to accurately land on the lowest number possible not too far or too close to the beginning. The next part is where you jump and land as far as you can. On the round two I failed the practice round but got a good score on the next after that I got another good score lifting my spirits. On the next competition I did average. The next part which didn't count in the overall score was also about accuracy but to get the car into the center garage I strategezied based on past mistakes and hope I could do it to win a cool sticker. I did it before but today I wasn't lucky. The two parts I didn't actually like was when I said a couple of mean things to my friend. He told me about it and I apologized because he said I was being mean. Apparently at the end there was a drawing for raffle tickets the prize was so much money that every parent volunteered to put some in I lost my ticket so had zero chance of winning. In the end I was surprised of what I got I surprised my mom the most. it was memorable because Today I won my only pinewood derby prize and it will be my last one too.

Time spirit

   Once upon a time there were many animals who freely traveled through time. The development of time machines made a special species which came from the time machine. They could disappear forward or back in time. These strangely could mate with other species but couldn't with their own species. It developed time dogs, time cats, and many other species that simply are normal but had the time ability. The greedy people wanted greatly this power but no time species would ever do it. Two of the original time creature still existed. They were not going to fade until they had at least 100 children with a single mate. One time spirit was a boy the other was a girl. They still didn't know which species they wanted to enchant because if one of the spirits did something the other spirit would have to do the same or else that species couldn't multiply. It would fade. These to spirits were named Time and Careful. One day Careful said,"Time, today do you want to find a new species?" Time answered,"Okay, but let's make sure it is currently at the bottom of the food chain so we can make it supreme." However most of the other spirits already chose the good species to enchant and Time and Careful wanted to be remembered and not copy someone else.

    The next day they went to a place difficult for time spirits to survive because no other time spirit went there. The first danger was a place where traps since the beginning of time was. There were people watching. Time and Careful wondered what to do and stayed for a while when they heard that the people were going to send an army if they didn't cross soon it made them more eager to think of something. Time then said, "Careful, let's get some of the sand around here then go back in the past when there was a river here then back to the present then mold the clay in the past when we are in the present we have a clay model of our selves to get caught in the time spirit proof traps." Careful was careful and said," They might guess we would do that anyway." Time said," Let's go we don't have any other choice" They followed the plan and made it. Time shouted in Careful's ear," You see I am right you worry to much!" Time was wrong because on the next go Careful was right and Careful shouted," See, Now we are stuck in a net Wahhhhh." Time, was not worried. Though in this net they couldn't reverse time. Time wasn't worried he was sure they could think of something. Then he asked, " Do you have a rock?" Careful still sobbing said,"Why?" Time rolled his eyes and said, " It is part of  my plan dum dum." Careful gave it to him because she always was prepared and careful. Time told her to find the transmitter of the net that makes it spirit proof. Careful had developed a device that still lets her see into different time periods when she couldn't go there or to get a view to make sure it is safe. Careful said it was camouflaged between the string. Time told Careful to throw the rock at it. Careful was more patient she told him that It might just be that they are taking us to the wanted location. They found that the humans wanted to study them. Careful planned to break out when they passed a poor community. They did and married the poorest humans. Many years later the time humans were still only poor but they were careful and smart.

New Mousico

    Once upon a time there were two cats. They never got along and tried hard to constantly avoid each other when possible. Each didn't like what the other one said or did. Their only thought each day was to avoid the other and one day destroy the other cat. However their quarrels were so loud that cats 5 miles away dropped their mice to the floor. Mice covered their ears and ran away. There was one mouse named Kisandy, who care more about the cat quarrels more than anyone else. She asked her best friend, Jillit, "Would you help me make something that will shut up the cats' mouths?" Jillit was a good inventor. She tirelessly worked yet didn't think of something. Kisandy was furious and loudly shouted, "YOU ARE NOT A GOOD FRIEND!  I WANT TO SHUT THOSE WEIRD CAT UP BY TOMORROW! OR YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND ANYMORE AND I AM GOING TO THROW YOU INTO A MOUSE TRAP!! SO GET BUSY!!!!!!" ( Apparently no mouse alive in the mouse/cat world was either, a friend of Kisandy or anyone in her family, In a mouse trap, or being digested by a cat because Kisandy was the daughter of the mouse king.) Jillit was obviously scared of Kisandy. she asked her only other friend Liza for help.  Liza asked,"What do you really want?" Jillit replied shivering, "I act- I actually like the cats quarreling because it creates a riot and I can sneak fruit snacks out of the kitchen. " Liza also asked, "Why are you friends with Kisandy anyway?" Jillit was to busy writing love letters and preparing her self for the end of her life to answer. Liza thought, " I hope she knows what is right because I don't know what is." Kisandy's way to get mice to get caught is simple. She says," Okay enemy, Get caught or my dad will throw ya in the dungeon." Jillit was so happy when she heard her mother said this. Jillit could go to the dungeon. Jillit had a tense night's sleep. In the morning she was in a castle her mom was watching her sadly get pulled away. Then Kisandy snickered after her Okay enemy speech, " What is you choice!?" You have 5 seconds or automatically get caught in a mouse trap. Jillit knew this and quickly in 4 seconds said, " Dungeon NOW!" Then Kisandy snapped her two fingers and 5 guards picked her up they went to the highest tower in the castle and dropped her in the moat. The last she heard before falling in the dreary, filthy, and unwelcoming pit of water was, " The moat is the dungeon loser! You have to survive on crocodile food."
    For a while Jillit was underwater then realized she had to get air too. She was careful to avoid getting seen for if she did they would throw things at her. She was carefully under surveillance. She threw a letter and it always for some reason would land in her home. Her mother wrote back and they  wrote each other letters. Eventually the guards found out and intercepted the letter. This didn't stop Jillit she invented a mechanical bird with cleverly disguised wings as a letter in a metal casing. It flew back and forth and eventually she came up with an escape plan. She threw a letter up to Kisandy's room the letter said," need a way to stop the cats come to my dungeon -Jillit." She then told Kisandy, " Help me out or I'll never give you the invention." Fully aware that it was likely a trick Kisandy summoned all her guards to watch. The moment Kisandy let her out a bunch of mechanical birds picked up Kisandy the guards ran up to get her distracted, the guards didn't see Kisandy run away.

    She stopped at her house for a light backpack with inventing materials, 600 mechanical birds, food, water, and letters to send back. She then ran far away. She got a good head start it took an entire day for Kisandy to realize what had happened. Jillit was already 5 miles due west. This was cat country and a high risk of getting caught. Jillit knew that everywhere except the small 3 miles around the castle was safe for regular mice. With all her guards Kisandy could go through it as easily as she could punish someone. She found a desert and thought of a plan. She would put footprints for 10 miles north which would take 2 days then fly west for 6 days bringing her to a forest. Kisandy followed the misleading foot prints 10 miles north because a couple of cats caught her off guard and she waited her guards got her out eventually but it had been 8 days already. Jillit was running low on water she gathered some from the pool. She took a few fruit everyday because she knew Kisandy had to sleep too before sleep she worked on a new invention. Liza knew exactly what Jillit would think and she waited for her while Jillit was in the dungeon. Liza found Jillit and asked Jillit what she was making, Jillit said, " I want to make a thing that will make Kisandy need to go back to the mouse kindom." They thought about it together and acomplished in 7 days. They waited for Kisandy to come close. Kisandy said," Ha found you. Guards capture them." The guards stepped on a trap and got sprang up bees came and stung them because their net bumped the hive. The guards ran quickly away Kisandy was alone and a cat would catch her and she was so scared she ran away.

   She told Liza to go away and make a new place for mice far away from the kingdom. They made a new city in the middle was a structure so they could withstand an attack from cats. This country was a democracy and more mice sneaked into this better country. The technology level of the city was high because many inventors worked together. Kisandy was still fed up with the cats noise level and decided to attack one of the cat's minor cities. The city lost and the save place for mice increased to 10 miles around the regular castle( and which Kisandy didn't know the other city for mice. The kingdom greatly expanded but the other capital city for mice didn't spread at all it just added defenses sure that the kingdom would attack soon. When news came that the cats were attacking the city and the other mice the city lined up the city with traps. The other kingdom lost all of its soldiers except 100 and Kisandy.  They all went to tell the mouse king of the "new city." Meanwhile the cats gathered a stronger army. However the mouse king gathered a strong army too. The cat and the mouse king army clashed before even reaching the new mouse city. The mice in New Mousico, the new city had lots of time to prepare. They gathered up traps and lots of supplies. The two armies decided to form a pact because they have a similar purpose and then fight each other after the city is taken over. The city held its ground and the armies were destroyed. New Mousico grew strong and could have taken over the whole cat/mouse world but took 49% of the land in the world. 49% was for cats and 2% was the greedy mouse kingdom. After that in the history of New Mousico, Jillit was remembered as a hero.

Songs express

I always lately have been singing songs. Almost all these songs relate to what will happen the next day. Most of the time it is something bad or loss of something fun other times It is just about things I like. I sing songs quietly but the nearest people can hear them usually. They are usually sung before bedtime so I can give my hopes and satisfactation of what I have done during the day. When I do right before the lights are turned off my song ends. If I don't sing or at least have a satisfactation of what I have done; I ( unless I was very tired ) can't sleep. Even if I fall into my bed I will jump out and running to do what I need. Then sleep tight in my bed.