Characterisitics - A poem

This is a poem I wrote for school, but my mom really likes it and I am wondering if you will too. I wrote it in 10 minutes and the requirements are: 1) I had to make it as if a pet is writing it to me 2) I had to use spelling words like goal, hello and stuff like that.

The poet is an owl (That's what I was supposed to do at least)

It goes like. . .

I say "hoot"

A train says "toot"

And a pony says "neigh"

And it likes hay.

In the dark, some things glow

At least that's what I know.

A soccer player gets a goal

And here's a hero probably named Joel.

Well I know, you can say "Hello"

And probably play the Banjo!

P.S: As an owl with really good eyes, I could see and hear this happening around.

P.P.S: An owl can be kept as a pet

Europe is AMAZING!!!

Day 0:

Today we are heading to the airport. We are going to London! At London we will see the city highlights, go on the London eye and to Greenwich park! I am really looking forward to the London eye. It is a ferris wheel and you can see all the city.

I am now at the airport where I ate some really yummy quinoa soup and then played cards with my dad. It is now time to board the plane.

I did not like the food though! Now we are going to land at London Heathrow airport. After we reached we went on the Heathrow Express train to Paddington and then caught a taxi to Jury's Inn. Then we went to Victoria Station for dinner using the London Underground and Overground! I ate bread and soup for dinner.

Day 1 - London:

Today we started the day by eating breakfast at Jury's Inn and took the underground to Victoria Coach Station and took a tour. I saw the Albert Hall, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben (the bell inside the tower is called Big Ben). Then we ate lunch, saw Buckingham Palace, Marching guards, St.Paul's Cathedral, the tower of London and went on a Thames River Cruise and went on London Eye! I liked the underground and the London Eye the best! Then we did an underground trip, got lost in Harrods ate dinner and went to bed.

 

Day 2 - Belgium:

We took a ferry from Dover to Calais and then the bus to Belgium. In Brussels we heard a story about kings dying too early, saw a pissing boy statue, looked at a beautiful square, and then ate a wrap I didn't like and then ate ...a.....WAFFLE!!!!! and then went to get 2 souvenirs and some....CHOCOLATES

 

Day 3 - The Rhine:

We left Belgium by bus and reached Boppard in Germany to do the Rhine River Cruise! After the cruise we reached Wurzburg. Now are are at Germany. Mom spotted a ferris wheel, so we went on it. Turns out it is a fair so we went on a lot of rides but there was one really scary one that I cried. Then we got some slushes and went back to the Hotel where we saw fireworks and went to sleep.

  

Day 4 - Germany to Austria

We are heading for Innsbruck Austria. But instead we are in Rothenburg and we got to see a pretty tower and colorful houses and walk on cobblestone roads and buy souvenirs! I bought a plate and a puppet! Then we left for Innsbruck and on the way I was singing a song. Oh!!!!!! I forgot about Neuschwanstein Castle! It was unfinished and boring but I got an icecream! But on the way back it was raining like crazy crazy! There were even extremely small rivers! Now i am dry but I was soaking outside and in the bus!

Day 5 - Innsbruck, Austria

We are doing a tour of Innsbruck and we took a drive around and then we took a walk around. We saw a church called Wilten church (yellow baroque church) and a sound of music house and were driving again. There are 140,000 people in Innsbruck and 165 of them are 100 years old! Then we went to a museum in a church where we saw bronze statues and took a walk. I saw mimes and a headless man! Then we went to Swarovski and got crystal figures and left for Switzerland.

P.S: I got a card game that I love.

Day 6 - St.Moritz, Switzerland

We are now in St.Moritz and we are in the hotel and there is a bunk bed and mom let me sleep on the top! When we reached we took a walk around the lake and spotted moths and a small waterfall with fishes in it. Then I swam in the pool but the shower in the hotel went all over the place and mom got wet!

Day 7 - Bernina Express and Lugano

I am boarding a train called Bernina Express - St.Moritz to Tirano, Italy where we looked around. On the way there were beautiful sights like lakes and mountains. The train was going really fast! There was a moth in the train, dad caught it and let it free. At Tirano I got ice cream and took a walk. We got back on the coach and drove around Lake Como and reached Lugano. At the hotel, there was a wonderful view of funicular cars! We even played a game where we predicted what kind of car it was. But the hotel room just had beds a table, and a bathroom. That's it! We did a lake Lugano cruise to a restaurant and ate and then we went to Italy in the cruise (took 5 to 10 minutes), saw the moon and went back to Lugano, Switzerland.

Day 8 - Lucerne

We left for Lucerne and bought a cuckoo clock and went to a cafe and got a chocolate brownie and went to Lake Lucerne and took a walk around. I saw swans and on the way we went on an old bridge called chapel bridge! Then i waded in the lake. Then we took a funicular and cable car (it was so much fun!) to Mount Stanserhorn. We ate lunch and did hikes, got icecream and went back. Then we went inside a clock tower and I felt mysterious (like Hugo Cabaret) and then I went to a Swiss Folklore and did some yodeling but was extremely scared! Then we danced and left.

P.S: I lost my 8th tooth in the bus!

Day 9 - Interlaken, Guyere and Geneva

From Lucerne we went to Interlaken and got chocolate and then we went to Guyeres and ate lunch and went in a really awesome castle and then went all the way to Geneva and went around a lake and got icecream! We took a walk around Geneva and saw a clock made of wood and plants and then we we went to the bus but nearly missed it and went to the hotel!

Day 10 - Paris

We are going to Paris but stopped in Beaune. It is famous for it's wine. We stopped there and bought some macaroons and a basket and went to Paris. At Paris we went to the Seine river for a cruise and went under the lovers bridge, the concorde bridge, the Alexander bridge. We also went under Pont Neuf and 18 more bridges like that - 22 bridges altogether! And then we went on a really fast elevator ride in Montparnasse and went to the hotel.

P.S; in almost every hotel there is hot chocolate!
P.P.S: We ate dinner in Illy - Best Panini in the world!

Day 11 - Paris

We took a bus tour and saw Notre Dame chapel and lit a candle and said a prayer ad saw stained glass windows and there were these monster statues called gargoyles and it was raining and the gargoyles were spitting out water and we learned about a story of a hunch back. Then we drove around and got dropped off near the Louvre and we said goodbye to everyone. I missed the tour people but it was also good to get some nice time alone. Ah what wonderful freedom. We ate a WONDERFUL sandwich and went to the lovely Musee d'Orsay and OOHed and AAhed at the paintings. We saw THE Starry Night! I observed neo impressionism and said they use a lot of dots.... when I didn't know about it! There were sculptures too. Afterward I ate crepe!!! Then we took the metro to the Arc of Triumph and climbed to the top! Then we went to Sacre Cour and I lit 2 candles and said 2 prayers!!! then we went to the dome.Then we did a BORING carousel ride and went to a sweet shop and saw chocolate sculptures  and bought sweets. Then we went to Champs De Elysses for dinner and then went to the EIFFEL TOWER!!!!! It was lit up so we went to the tippie toppie and saw a laser show. Then we took the metro to the hotel.

I loved the day even though I walked quite a bit and climbed a lot of things, and the day was packed!
Some of my favorite things were the Musee d'Orsay, Arc of Triumph, Sacre Cour, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower and eating crepe!!!!!

Day 12 - Paris:

We started the day by getting up and eating breakfast and drinking hot chocolate (as usual). Then took the metro to Invalides (Napoleon's tomb) because i am so, no wait, sooooooo interested in Napoleon. I got to see where Napoleon was buried CLOSE UP!!! I LOVED it! I even saw Napoleon's coat and hat! Then we went to Notre Dame but it was TOO long a line so we went to a restaurant called Krishna Bhavan. Then we took the metro to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa, but it was too hot, too crowded and confusing all at the same time!Then we went to Champs de Elyses (pronounced Shawn Elees) to shop for fashion. Tough luck. Just one dress. Then we went to a restaurant called Saravana Bhavan and went to the hotel. Tomorrow we leave for the airport.

Day 13 - Back home

Now that the vacation has ended here a list of favorite, funny and curious things.

Top Favorite Things (not in any particular ranking):

1. Paris Metro (Paris)
2. London Underground and Overground (London)
3. Mt.Stanserhorn (Switzerland)
4. Crepe, Icecream, Ovaltine, Hot chocolate (everywhere)
5. Wurzburg fair (Germany)
6. Arc of Triumph (Paris)
7. Eiffel tower (Paris)
8. London Eye (London)
9. Seine cruise (Paris)
10. Musee d'Orsay (Paris)
11. Invalides (Paris)
12. Notre Dame (Paris)
13. Sacre Cour (Paris)
14. Souvenirs (everywhere)
15. My new adult friends (everywhere)
16. Cobblestone roads (everywhere)

Top funny things I heard:

1. You go baroque when you have no monet
2. The kings dying story in Belgium
3. The French cooks, British police, Swiss running everything story
4. Luigi's YAH!!!!
5. When we all guessed the river name wrong

Top curious things I saw:

1. Paid potties (turning potty seats)
2.  Cobblestone roads
3. Fun public transportation
4. Curious castles
5. Cute names of towns (Beaune, Guyere etc)

Description of vacation in one sentence:

It was so fun and I loved the new styles of things and I loved all the fun and different things and everything else except for too much rain and too long bus rides.

Hug-A-Bear Hug-A-Bit

One day it was dad's birthday. Mom got a fitbit for him for a present. On the same day I kept on hugging my mom and I remembered the fitbit and I decided to make a fitbit for hugs! I have a girls version and a boys version. The screen is split into 3 segments. Two of them have dials. One, on the right is where you can choose the person who you want to hug the most. It shows the picture of the person. On the left, like the flower of the fitbit to know how much steps you have taken, this one has a chain of hearts. The dial is to change the color of the hearts. Unlike the right and left, the center doesn't have a dial. It really just shows how much hugs you've given. The green things are cameras to take a picture of the one you hug, but you should hug the person you've chosen the most. It even comes with a cover that is red and yellow striped. There is a gold color clip on the back of the hug-a-bit to clip onto your shirt. The reason I came up with a cover, was because daddy lost his fitbit in the laundry! My cover and screen and dials are waterproof! The whole Hug-A-Bit is waterproof! The picture shows the girls version. The boys version will be star shaped.

Now, Can you hug me a bit? :)

Inside-the-cocoon cars

At home when I was about to go to bed, a butterfly design on my blanket inspired me to make something that has to do with a butterfly. I wanted to do something with transportation because it is my favorite invention. But it is a good house too. The invention is a car that can also fly and is also a house. Each one is different but with almost the same details. Their shapes are different because that way the buyer can make a choice of which one to buy. One is a caterpillar, another is a moth, one is a dragonfly and another is a butterfly. Each has bedrooms and a garden that can be used for a party room, a lounge, a pool, a jaccuzi, a kitchen in the back and a lookout point in the front. It gets power because the antennae are wiggling all the time and that gives it energy to move.

Sugar Plum Fairy Sugar Pilow with Nanobot

I went to a research with mommy and some people were talking about pillows. That inspired me to make something out of a pillow. So I decided to make this! A red pillow with a green case with a nanobot (robot).  Every morning the nanobot goes to your shoe from the bottom to the top. It takes pictures of all the good things, only the good things that you do or experience - whatever good things that happen to you. There is a feeling detector in the nanobot which can tell if it is a good feeling or not. In the evening the nanobot can attach itself to the stretchy elastic cord and goes back into the pillow. Then the robot talks to your brain and gives you good and sweet dreams...oops i am sorry...the pillow has lots of nanobots in it each like a grain of sugar and each day one nanobot goes into your shoe to record. If you forget a dream on let's say the 6th day of February, then you can call that nanobot and it will tell you all about that dream and you can tell it to your parents.

The name of the pillow is Sugar Plum Fairy Sugar Pillow. Now i will stop right there and think of a different invention.

Seaweed Blossoms - Slippers, Sneakers, Shoes

Mommy and I were going to buy shoes at Stride Rite. We bought shoes that lit up.  I asked about the lights. I asked if they were bio-luminescence. My mom said "The keyword is bio". That means there has to be a living organism in the shoe. So what I said was maybe the energy from our body makes the lights light up. But then, that gave me an idea. I wanted to make a shoe that had bio-luminescence. So I said "Let's put a piece of plankton on top of our shoe. That way they get light". Then almost immediately I thought of a name! "Seaweed Blossoms", said I. I also decided that the shoes should be water-proof because plankton need water, and we can keep pouring water on the shoe.

We introduce our lovely Seaweed Blossom Awesome, Slippers, Sneakers and Shoes!

They start off as shoes and can turn into slippers or sneakers.They glow only at night and can be your flashlight. They never wear out. You are able to wear them everywhere and please remember that if you buy them you can get a free glass of lemonade (pink or regular, sweetened or unsweetened)

The Beautiful Roadtrip

DAY 1

One day we went to San Luis Obispo, Madonna Inn, where we got the room "Spring Flowers". All rooms are different! We went on a hike in San Luis Obispo and we talked about how I snowshoed once. On the ice and snow dad and mom kept slipping while I was happily chugging along. After the hike I played in a park and climbed two trees. We went back to the Madonna Inn, and I swam in the heated swimming pool. I made a friend there and we played a game. After I was done Mom got food from Panera Bread and I took shower. Mom read a book called "Sophie's world" and then we went off to sleep.

DAY 2

We woke up early the next morning, and had breakfast in Panera Bread and we went off to Hearst Castle. None of us really liked it there. I got jealous and i was cold. Mom was cold and wet and she came just for the view but couldn't see it and Dad thought it was average and I don't know why. Then we went off to Cambria to eat lunch in Sandy's sandwiches. We planned to go eat ice cream after lunch but the shop was closed. Then we stopped to see the elephant seals a bit away from the Hearst Castle. There were mostly baby elephant seals and I even learned about them. Then we drove off to Monterrey and stopped in Big Sur and did a waterfall hike. Unfortunately, I was in a bad mood at the beginning. When it came to the end, I made sure there was no end and I wanted to go explore. We explored two trails, one led to an area where I climbed a tree and the other one led to a campsite. Then we drove off to Monterrey. Once we got there we searched for our hotel - Best Western Plus Monterrey Inn. Then we went walking to CPK to eat dinner. Then we came back walking and spent some time in Cannery Row where we saw an otter. We saw some Steinbeck quotes. Then we lazed around and finally slept.

DAY 3

Next morning I went with my dad and mom to eat breakfast. Unfortunately me and dad over ate. Then we left to Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur. We did all the trails except Nature Trail. We started with the Buzzard's Roost Trail. There were so many switchbacks and was very steep and mom got a little bit scared. When we climbed down it was very rocky. Then we ate lunch in Big Sur Lodge and I even ate a Bubble gum ice cream there. Then we did the Pfeiffer falls and Valley View trails. We loved the Pfeiffer falls trail, but when we did the Valley view mom got a big time freak out! There were millions of lizards and even one snake on the trail. When we finally got out mom was relieved. On the way back we stopped in a beach in Carmel. Then we went back and walked to Ambrosia and ate there. We came back and finally slept.

DAY 4

We went to the Monterrey Aquarium on Cannery Row. We went to a place where we learned about Jelly Fish and I pretended to be a Jelly Fish. We did a thing where we had to push a lever and pulse a jelly on the screen. We even moved our arms and lights appeared on the screen. We even drew a jelly and set it free on the screen and we could even email and connect to our Jelly. We saw African Penguin feeding and the penguins are endangered.  We saw kelp forest feeding where there was an actual scuba diver in there and we saw puffins. In the end, I got a mood jelly fish necklace which tells my mood and a glow in the dark paint set. Then we ate lunch in Ambrosia and left straight for Salinas.
We went to Steinbeck center and I had a lot of fun there. I learned about the "Red Pony" and I had to help Jody do his chores. Steinbeck was a great writer and my mom loves him a lot.
Then we came back and went to P.F.Chang's and i got 3 fortune cookies to eat. Then we went back to the hotel and watched Nature program on TV and that is how I did my last blog post.

DAY 5

We had early breakfast and left for Solvang. We had lunch in New Frontier's Cafe and I didn't really like the cake (It had eggs). Then we left for Elverhoy museum. There I did an "I Spy" game and there was a spinning wheel too. We even got to look at a dollhouse up close, and there was even an exhibit in the bathroom! Then we left Elverhoy Museum and rightaway I planned to do a Surrey Bike thingy. So we rented it and drove around Solvang and I even got to drive a little bit! That was the time of my life! Afterwards I even got icecream and mom got this lovely coffee which she thought was awesome. And mom gave me a windmill jewellery box. Dad made dinner and I watched another Nature program about Crows. Then we drove to Santa Barbara and I finally wrote my plant blog.

DAY 6

We are in Santa Barbara right now I am writing the blog. I had a scone for breakfast and I watched "Duckumentary". We are going to go to Artesia and then head back home, and that is the end of the roadtrip and this blog post!

Plants with Animal Behavior

CHAPTER 1-DODDER VINE


The Dodder vine is a plant that is attracted to tomato plants. It smells it and it actually spins , finds the tomato plant and then sticks on to it.  It spoilt the tomato plant. A scientist wanted to try an experiment. So what happened was they put an actual tomato by a dodder vine but covered it up so you couldn't smell and a stick with tomato perfume. The dodder vine spun around and went to the stick with the tomato perfume on it.

It proved that the dodder vine follows the tomato plant by smell.

CHAPTER 2 - KNAPWEED and LUPIN

 The Knapweed comes from Europe and it spoils native grass. It releases a chemical that goes into the soil and stops the native grass from growing. Somebody came and saw the knapweed and he brought cattle. That time there was hardly any native grass so they had to eat the knapweed. Unfortunately they don't like knapweed. So they won't eat it. But sheep like knapweed. Fortunately there is a plant that can protect grass from knapweed. It is called Lupin. It releases a chemical that stops the knapweed chemical.

CHAPTER 3 - SEA ROCKETS

The sea rocket acts more like a human. It has a behavior called kin behavior. If it is near one of its siblings or family it would be kind to its siblings (or family). If one sea rocket was planted next to its siblings it would give more space for the siblings' roots. But if it were planted next to a stranger plant, it would fight for space. Dudley and her student Amanda File proved it by planting some sea rockets next to their siblings and some next to the strangers. When they got ready to transplant them, they found that the ones next to strangers had a lot of roots. The ones next to the siblings had less roots.

CHAPTER 4 - DOUGLAS FIR AND FUNGI

With the Douglas firs, there are mother trees and daughter trees. The roots are all connected by fungi. The fungi gets some sugar from the trees and in return the fungi gives the trees some nutrients. Now about the Douglas Fir. A scientist named Simard and her student pumped radioactive Carbon in a mother tree and when they came back to find where all the Carbon had gone, they found that it went through a lot of other trees especially the baby trees. The baby trees got the most Carbon because the babies needed a lot to grow. So it proves that mother trees actually nurture the young.

CHAPTER 5 - WILD TOBACCO

The wild tobacco needs moths to pollinate them. Unfortunately the moths comes and lays hundreds of eggs there. The caterpillar starts eating the tobacco.The tobacco produces a sugary thingy that caterpillars love and when they eat them they start smelling badly and predators come and eat the caterpillars.

CHAPTER 6 - JOKES

1. WHICH PLANT HAS A MOTHER?
the dodder ("daughter") vine

2. WHICH PLANT IS LAZY?
the knapweed ("nap" weed)

3. WHICH PLANT IS A GREAT GYMNAST?
the lupin ("loop" in)

4. WHY IS THE MUSHROOM POPULAR?
because it is a fungi ("fun guy")

5. WHICH PLANT GOES TO OUTERSPACE?
the sea rocket

6.  WHICH PLANT IS FUZZY?
the douglas fir (the douglas "fur")