Vacation Pt. OVER

Yay, I finally finished all the things with my vacation. Now I can go back to the voices series after a 3-week break. I forgot what I was writing, I think I will end the voices series forever, because, by now, I am just trying to delay the ending as long as possible, because I never have anything to write, therefore, I never want to end it and return to the boring days of "I have no topic."My mom said she wanted me to write this, so that she knows what destinations to visit when she goes where we went. Now that I've finished, and I feel continuing "Voices" will be bad, I know I need something else to write about. Write now, I think I am writing a diary, because in my head it just sounds like a diary entry. I wanted to write a novel during vacation, maybe I could start something. That, by the way is a completely unnecessary comment. Now, however I am just proud I can still keep writing, but I will always feel like I am skating on thin ice when it comes to ideas. So... in conclusion: Delay, delay, delay. Bye!

Vacation Part Something: 8/18 and 8/19 The real part 8

On this day, my family went to Colorado National Monument, a place that is all about its rock formations. The place is East of Grand Junction, CO and South of Fruita, CO. We drove, and took a stop at almost every overlook. We did very few trails, because our grandpa can't hike far. After two hours, we finally got to the visitor center, which I did my Junior Ranger Badge. After that, we visited just two more stops, and then left the Monument and Colorado for the rest of vacation. We still had one more stop, Capitol Reef National Park, the second least visited park in Utah, which we had not yet visited in our last trip to Utah.

Capitol Reef National Park is one of Five of Utah's National Parks, every single one relates to rock formations. Capitol Reef was named for two natural features, one is a dome, which looks like the capitol building, and the other is a reef, or another name for an "impassable" cliff. We visited the visitor center, and saw some scenic rock formations, we spent the night at Torrey, UT, which is close to the park. I had instant noodles for dinner. It was fun. For the next day, we visited the five stops we hadn't yet looked at, claimed our junior ranger badges, then finally, our vacation was over, and we started driving home at 10:00 A.M. After twelve more hours of driving, we finally got home.

Vacation pt. 8

On this day, we visited Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. On the way towards the park, my sister reminded my dad about the junior ranger program, I'm lazy, so I didn't want to do it. When we got there we did a ranger history of the canyon program. I'm glad it was different than the Grand Canyon. After the one hour tour, I spent a boring thirty minutes finishing the junior ranger book. After which, we visited every overlook on the south rim, and left black canyon at around 2o'clock. We then ate lunch at about 2:30. Finally, we went to Curecanti National Recreation Area. Which we spent 15 minutes at, because the area was closed, except for one location. Afterwards, we arrived at Grand Junction, and ate dinner there. Finally, the last thing I did was help plan tomorrow's trip.

What part

I believe I am on part 6/ day 7, but I'm not sure. Anyway, on this day, I went to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Hovenweep National Monument. It was another place about ruins. We went to the visitor center of Canyons of the Ancients in the morning, and took a quick hike to the reservoir created for the people of the area. I saw the first old village of the day, and it was supposed to have 30 rooms. It didn't look that big, which is my personal comment that I say after seeing every single village ruin for the last two days. We didn't spend much time, and took a roundabout tour of most of the easy access ruins. I noticed that we did a lot more hiking than the last day at Mesa Verde, but there were a lot more sites.  At Hovenweep National Monument, which was actually in Utah (Both monuments are close to the Colorado Utah Border), you could visit 8 or 9 in a two hour hiking trip. They didn't have very many roads, apparently, Hovenweep is really small. So, at about 3, we were leaving, to go north, and into the Grand Junction area. We visited Telluride, CO on the way.  The town is a ski resort. The main attraction would be the gondola ride up the mountain, and to a different city, and the "fun facts" say that this is the only form of free transportation of the many gondola lines in the world.  So, of course, when we came here we rode it. After our adventure, we took photos of the sunset. When we came back down, we ate dinner at a local Thai restaurant. Later, we headed towards Montrose, CO where we would spend the night.

The main thing I remember about this day was the Gondola Ride, and the amount of pictures we took on this day rivaled how many we took on day 3. In other words, we took a lot of photos!

Vacation part. 5

A couple of things before I start: tomorrow is my first day of school. I want to finish my vacation summary, so that I don't forget to do it later. I won't take any breaks, I will write my normal "diary" part at the top. After finishing everything I'll go back to the voices series.

On this day, we went to Mesa Verde National Park. Which is famous for its ruins. I think this was a national park that was never a national monument before it became a park. It was created to protect the ruins, and ancient artifacts from being stolen, or damaged.  The ruins were mostly adobe bricks, cemented together through a muddy yellow mixture. The old ruins were made about 600 to 1250 years ago from the natives of the time. Over this day and the next, we went to parks and monuments dedicated to protecting the ruins, and because they were in the same area, on day two of the ruins area, when I learned the history of the area, I thought that the history sounded almost exactly the same.

Overall, it wasn't my favorite park in Colorado, but it sure was the one where I didn't complain that the park looked like every other national park in the world.

Vacation Pt. 4

On this day, we went to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. This, in my opinion was my favorite national park in Colorado. This area has very few paved roads inside the park. The only things within the paved area of the parks were the visitor center, campground, and a single picnic area. Besides that, there was a wilderness areas where you could see the actual sand dunes, the highest one rose 700 ft. higher than the desert floor. We were playing on the small about 20 foot high sand dune, when we saw another family with a sled, we thought they had a lot of fun, and my sisters and I begged our dad to rent a sled for us, and after two long hours of waiting, our dad came back with the sand sled. We all tried to master the sled, and headed for a bigger dune. By noon, we left to go west to southwest Colorado, near Mesa Verde National Park. That was our plan for the next day.

Vacation Pt. 3

I usually do not split my blog posts into different parts. I know my sister does, she tells me that she has 5 parts to her stories and ends up finishing/ concluding the story, because eventually you get board, but this is a journal so it is a little different.

Day 4:
On this day, we were driving from Denver to south Colorado, the Great sand dunes area. In the morning, we left at about 8 after doing some planning, and we went to Chautauqua Park in Bolder. Us kids didn't really understand it, so we just played in its playground. We left and took a few pictures of the University of Colorado Boulder. At about noon, we drove south, and visited the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. We watched a video about the life of students in the academy. On that day, I decided that I would not like to work in the military when I grew up. Later we visited Garden of the Gods park nearby. My dad told me that their website said that some review said that this park is "the most beautiful park in the world." When I saw it, I didn't think it was all that great, there were some rock formations, but I think they look similar to other places' rocks. During the second half of the day, my sister mentioned that she was building a PvP world in Minecraft. I was interested so I started building my own world on Minecraft, we were planning to play against each other when we could play multiplayer with wireless. I worked on it for the entire rest of the 3 hour trip to our hotel.

Vacation Summary Pt.2 8/12

After the main driving part was complete, we spent a quiet day at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, during this time, we looked at nice overlooks, and drove up and down mountains at elevations of 8500 to 12000. My sister, my grandpa, and I suffered from headaches that occurred, because of elevation sickness. 

In the morning, we went to the Bear Lake, and took the short half-mile hike around it, that was all we did in the morning, it took really long because we stopped every twenty steps to take a picture. After that, we drove up a dirt road to the Alpine visitor center, which was built almost 12,000 feet above sea level. We took many pictures of the view from the high point of the park. Later, we went back down to the other side of the park, went back up the mountain and down the other way stopping every overlook, and take every possible picture from every single angle. It was annoying, and my head was starting to hurt a lot. When we went down, we ate dinner at a Thai food place, where my head hurt so much I couldn't even eat much. At the hotel, I slept a long sleep and my headache was gone in the morning. 

Four Days No Blog

The past four days I have not been writing my blog. I will make up Wednesday's post today. At 6:30 AM, I woke up and rolled around in bed for 15 minutes. Throughout this week I had been planning the vacation to Colorado. When morning came, my dad said that he wanted to go to Boulder on the weekend (because his friend would be working if we went any later). Though we were planning to leave by eight, after all the packing, it was nine by the time we left. My dad, my grandpa, my two sisters, and I comfortly got into the eight-seater car. Despite the extra cargo from snacks, and all the suitcases for the ten day trip, we all wheedled into locations, sitting in awkward poses.

At lunch we went to a Chipotle. By 1 we were out, and we went into Utah by three o'clock. I got to go to the visitor center and look at some maps of the state. It was another four hours until my dad stopped driving at Richfield, UT  and we went to a Subway for dinner.

Playing at the hotel, and sleeping until the next day marked the end of the first day of the long road trip.
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On the second day, we awoke at 7 for breakfast. At 8, we packed and left the city to go to Denver, CO.  After 3 hours, we were excited by the feeling of coming into a new state. The sign said, "Welcome to Colorful Colorado." We had lunch in one of the first cities we saw in Colorado, Fruita.
The next few hours were boring, covering miles in wild, forest territory. After getting to Denver, we drove North to Boulder County. My dad came to visit his college friend and I remember having to constantly change clothes to something more formal, or not as messy.  We ate at some Chinese restaurant. After eating, my father talked with his friend for a while. Meanwhile, us kids were watching the 2016 Olympic Games on the TV. At 7, we went back to the hotel, that night I slept really well.

The second day marked the end of the heavy traveling, and it was my introduction to Colorado.

No break

I want to have a break, but I guess I will just extend it, I have no ideas, well to be honest, I have some about clearing things up with the four voices, I like writing about a world, I read a lot about a worlds which is nothing like our world. I will continue my break, I am too lazy to extend the post unless I take a repeat of yesterday's ending.

A long day

We'll take another break to the voices series. I had a long day today. I wonder if yesterday's post was interesting or not. Every time I write something, I feel I am wasting my time, and that it will not matter in the end, which means my parents think I'm just trying to fill up the space. Like I just did, the first sentence doesn't tie in to my topic, yet it takes up almost 1/10 of how much I have currently written. Since I will do the an argument tomorrow, I would like to say that on Wednesday I will go on vacation.  I want to end it here, but I am afraid it will be too short, and if I end it after saying that I didn't want to end it but I was too short to end now, then I would feel my last sentence was wasted, and I also can't end it now, or after any other sentences that say I can't end it because, it would still be too short, and there would not be enough things about my topic. I still do want to end it. I just wasted that sentence write there. I will end it, so that undermines 3 sentences I just said a while ago. Bye 

Me First

I've written blog so much on my iPad, that now it has a shortcut on the browser.
Hey! Stop giving away our personal life to the readers.
What's wrong with that?
People might make fun of us.
They won't,  no one ever says anything in the comments.
Well, if you haven't checked the blog stats, we have a lot of readers from other countries too.
Well anyways, it doesn't matter, before I was born, this blog's writer already said things about his life.
So, that doesn't mean we have to.
Well I want to.
Suit yourself.
One of my friends said they once realized their was another voice that guided the writer.
But, we realized that much earlier.
<Lazy Voice and Mean voice arrive.>
Hi old friend!
I'm voice 2, and that's -
He's really lazy<Voice 1 interrupts >
(1) so that is your friend?
(2) Looks like he has a partner too.
(1) If you think we're partners, then your wrong!
<2 whispers to the other voices > this is why I call him the mean voice.
(2) wait a second, how did I get here? Isn't it impossible to visit another brain besides the one you guide?
(2's friend) Back when I graduated from voice school, I heard that there was a mistake, but I did not believe it.
(2's friend's partner) We're all in one head!?

Writing to Impress

My parents don't like my blogs recently, they say that they're not interesting enough. I'll write a sort of diary entry of how I started the voices series. This started around the point I started frequently saying, that I write on the iPad. On that day, I typed two lines of words about what I wanted to write, I wasn't thinking about my writing, and just typed something random. After that I noticed how the statements contradicted each other, and I continued the story of two voices, one lazy, and one not. I also was planning to write a story, but I was too lazy; however I did decide to turn it into a story somehow, which lead to the events of the first story.

The next day, I was stuck, and had no idea what to write so, I did a sequel. Then, I started including my thoughts and feeling. The most recent one had a topic, about me having no topics.

My parents still say I still can continue it, but it should be more interesting. The series started as a lazy way to make a longer blogpost, looks like I'll have to start putting thought into it.

NO time

Today I will not risk writing something short.

I will continue the "voices" series.

Ugh, no topics.

Don't be like that, we always have topics.

Today I am voice one

How about we call you the lazy voice.

We'll call you the mean voice.

Let's debate

(M.V)Sure

(L.V)Whatever

(M.V) I am bored.

(L.V) Can we not argue today?

(M.V) Lazy guy.

(L.V) I'm still leaving.

Quick

I like playing video games, and I don't want to write anything. Luckily, I have the computer. So, I am quick. I won't write anymore... Well, my mom came, and it looks like I'll have to make it better.

I won't write another argument.

Oh wait, no I will.

<1 and 2 notice each other but ignore each other.>

As I was saying, arguments take a lot of effort to write.

But I still wanted to because I know how to do it.

<1 and 2 think about how well they work together>

How about we don't argue today, we just work together.

Sure.

But it looks like we don't get labeled until we say the magic words.

Let's debate.

(1) Once upon a time there was a dog.

(2) That dog- wait a second, I don't want to do a story, how about a poem

(1) No way, I wanted to do a story since episode 1

(2) Well it still happened.

(1) Looks like it turned into a debate anyway.

(2) Why does it always happen!?

(1) Oh well, I'll start my own story.

<2 goes away and thinks up of a plan for a poem>

Time passes slwowly

Time can still pass slowly when you are having fun. I recently experienced that. I will finish without writing a long argument today, I had a long day at camp and the end of summer is drawing near. We will go on vacation next week, and I hope I can have one more week of Chess Camp. Summer has passed so slowly.