Anyway, I just realized how much I use my friend Gracie as a diary. She gets to hear all of my "funny stuff that happened in school today" even though she probably doesn't find most of it funny and is probably sitting there rolling her eyes because most of it revolves around my current crus--uh...*ahem* (Yes, I am refusing to call it a crush, long story.) And then of course she listens patiently to my fangirl moments about how Christophe Maé either broke his arm or hurt his shoulder (and I even made her look at a picture that Merwan Rim posted so she could see that Christophe's sleeve was clearly empty even though his jacket was done up) or about how so and so tweeted back at me or how cute Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr's little boy is (and despite all of this, I DO have a life!) yada yada yada.
And so, I'd just like to thank her for putting up with all of my ridiculousness and pretending that she finds it as funny/sad/appalling as I do!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI MERCI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So "That's what friends are for" IS a song, from Fox and the Hound, but I felt that this would be more appropriete because I hope that I never have to hunt Gracie down so that a hunter can kill her :) (and it sounded more like a love song :C< )
So I'm TECHNICALLY following 4 French musicians on Twitter, but I really only claim to be a fan of 3/4. So, yeah. Well I've already posted about Pascal Obispo retweeting my tweet and Merwan Rim replying to one, but then the other night the third guy replied ^_^
So this is Quentin Mosimann:
Pretty cute, no? (Of course, I don't personally care for tattoos and piercings, but he somehow pulls it off...)
And anyways, the other night he posted this picture:
And I thought "Wow, his hair looks quite awesome." So I told him "@quentinmosimann I just though you should know, your hair looks quite awesome in that picture." And he replied with "@mytwitterusernamethatisn'this i didnt sleep yet..." Which I take to mean "yes, my hair does look awesome, and that's not even my bedhead." So yes. Third successful tweet exchange with a French dude :) P.S. I was just thinking about how it seems like French people are better at interacting with their fans on twitter and would like to say that it is not entirely true. Kris Williams (of Syfy's Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International) is great at interacting with people and has in fact retweeted me. Actually, she was the first person of note that interacted with me on Twitter ^_^ so thank you Kris! And I'd also like to thank Dustin Pari for the Direct Messages. Another nice way to interact with followers, and it seems much more personal which is always welcomed :) Yes I could have made each of these people blog posts, but the interactions happened so long ago that the exact in-the-moment excitement has been forgotten and so the posts would have less of an impact, in my opinion. P.P.S I dislike the new post making layout. Mostly just the fact that unless you press enter a bunch of times you don't have any extra space when you are at the bottom of the page. I like having that "bumper" zone of white. I guess that's just part of me being a bit claustrophobic. Others than that the new dashboard layout isn't too bad. The cross out was added 10/22/12. To find out why, read the post posted on that date entitled "Umm...Ok?"
I'm finally going to be able to say "Hey, I knew that guy BEFORE he was famous!"
You know why? Because my AMAZINGLY talented friend Addam is going to be on The Voice next season. He was INVITED to audition for it at the end of this month. There is no way he won't make it. He is sooo talented and such a sweet genuine guy. I really do hope he goes VERY far in the competition.
Tonight there was a concert at the school to help raise money so that he could fly down to LA for the audition. With all the people that came, he was able to raise $1,100!! And that was with $5 per person to get in plus any donations. It's so exciting to see people come together to support someone. There were people there I would have never expected to come. And it made me feel really good. Especially considering one of them was our new class vice president. (For his and the president's campaign they actually came to the Drama class and asked us what WE wanted, since the performing arts always gets left out at my school. So it's good to know that they might actually follow through and give our people a little more support after all the support we give to the sports teams.) It's always nice to see people who don't normally go to performances like this, show up.
Just seeing a community in general come together gives you a great feeling.
Last year, a few weeks before school ended, a friend of mine was in a crash with his little sister. She died and he was in a coma for a while. It ended up leaving a pretty hefty medical bill for the family to pay. So about a week after school let out, the Drama department/club at my school put on a Variety Benefit Show. SO MANY people came! We raised over $7,000 for the family! It gives you the coolest feeling in the world when people come up to you and put a $50 bill into your donations bucket, or even $100 check! And seeing people scramble to dig out whatever money they have with them is such an awesome sight. Even when they do only donate 50 cents. It's just nice to see people give and then to see how it helps others.
It's days and nights like these that I'm so proud of the community I live in. Of course there's things that still need to be changed, but it's a start when people are willing to give whatever they have to help someone.
I hope you have a fantastic day/night and touch someone's life. Trust me, you will never feel a better feeling.
Amazing. So this morning I was really nervous because I have NONE of my script memorized and I was tired and really didn't feel like dancing. But when I walked into dance our teacher told us she's sick and so we just watched Newbies. Which I really want to see. I wasn't really paying attention. None of us were. But it was a nice relaxing way to start the morning. And I got to play with--ahem--use this really cool thing to score some paper to make it easier to fold (for vocabulary foldables that she is going to have her classes do). It was such a simple task that it was pretty relaxing.
Then in Spanish we played musical chairs. I wasn't looking forward to it. But it turned out to be really fun!
Psychology was pretty boring...as always. Except when our teacher took a kid out into the hall and hit him with a stick (ok not really, but we were learning about different conditioning methods and he was using that as an example of punishment; they went into the hall and the teacher hit the stick against the wall and the kid "screamed in pain").
Theatre, was just awesome. We had to help our teacher with his homework by playing this game called "Click." What you do is you are in pretty big groups and you have to tell a story with freeze frames. They usually end in disaster just because it will make people laugh and it makes the ending obvious. So we spent the first bit of it discussing what our Click would be. We were all over the place. First he told us we didn't have to keep it confined to the auditorium, which opened up a TON of possibilities. So we were going to get some wheelchairs from the nurse and/or nursing class and have a wheelchair race. And then our teacher suggested that everyone has some type of disability. And then it went to being a special ed. class playing dodge ball and someone asked "What's the worst that could happen?" to which I replied with "We walk into the gym and the special ed. classes are in there playing dodge ball." So that idea was dropped.
We finally decided that we would be an unruly class who gets into this huge brawl whenever our teacher turns towards the board and we would be perfect angels when he's looking at us. It was pretty awesome. We were all dead in the end. My favorite part was looking at the pictures and in the first one we are all smiley, then we are all taking notes, then we are smiley again, then we are annoyed and making bored faces, then the fighting starts, then it REALLY starts, then we are back to being perfect angels...except for the fact that a bunch of people are in new seats :)
Oh, and I finished my book that I've been reading for like the last month. It was amazingly emotional. It's called The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister. If you like reading history books/memoirs/books about the Holocaust, I highly recommend it.
Then I read another book (it was really short) that was such a nice quick read. It was about this little old lady who lives in China near this bridge that is thought to bring good luck. But because of the bridge's reputation there are a lot of kids who are abandoned there (their parents think that leaving their kids there will give the kids a better future), and so she always takes them to the orphanage. Well one day she sees this little boy and he is blind. Then in the two days that he stays with her they become pretty attached to one another. So a week after she takes him to the orphanage she goes to check up on him and gets really upset by how he's being taken care of. So then she becomes his foster parent. And it's just a really sweet story called The Bridge by Kay Bratt. If you are looking for a quick read, it's a good one to check out. But there were a few tiny grammatical errors, and one that bugged me where the author calls the old woman's daughter "Jing" which is the old woman's name. That was the only reason I didn't give it five stars.
FINALLY, Merwan Rim's new music video for "Mens-moi" came out today. It's a good one. I shall post it. And the song is really pretty. But the music video brings a lot of emotion to it and kind of hints at what the song is about. I'll also post a link to the lyrics with a trustworthy translation.
So yes. It was a good day :)
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Now backtrack to yesterday. In French class I learned that my teacher grew up in the same town as one of my favorite French singers, Pascal Obispo ^_^ So I tweeted about it. AND HE RETWEETED IT :O :D Now I know what you're thinking "How stereotypical teenager of you to get so excited over that" but you don't understaaaaaand! I had just been thinking about how weird it is to think that everyone in the world is connected by people they truly know (not just Facebook ''know''). Like, if you think about it, I know my French teacher, she knows a ton of people who live in her hometown. The chances of one of them knowing Pascal Obispo are pretty high. So hypothetically speaking, he and I share a link that is probably around 10-20 people long. Which is pretty small when you think about 1. I live in the US, he lives in France. 2. I'm an ordinary person, he's famous. So to have that close of a connection with someone like that is pretty amazing! [Not to mention that that means I can just add one to however many people connect us to find my connection to Christophe Maé :) I had to get his name in here somehow ;)] So just imagine how connected you are to you're favorite actor/singer/whatever! Just know the right people and it's like your entire world opens up.
Ok back to the retweeting, so in my opinion, that makes all other connection chains unimportant because he noticed one of my tweets which counts as an interaction between the two of us which means....OMG IT'S LIKE I MET HIM ONLY NOT! Ok, my fangirlyness is done...for the moment. Because I have some much sadder news.
So there's this kid...in my French class...and he used to sit behind me but now he doesn't because this stupid annoying freshman who can't shut her big mouth had to be moved so that she would shut up and just MAYBE (though I highly doubt it) get some work done. So now she sits behind me and poor *guy that shall remain unnamed* sits one seat over, in the midst of a gaggle of freshmen girls whose conversations really get on his nerves. Now it isn't that big of a move...but it's so sad :( He's like the only entertaining one in that class. I would get so bored if he wasn't there. And we always partnered up for the partner reads and games and such. And now I can't just discretely slip him the AP Bio homework when he asks for it (ok, maybe that one was a little dramatic, I mean it's only one seat over). But the fact is, I don't like change. I like him though.... :)
(My songs of the day will probably mostly consist of French songs because I don't listen to the radio so I'm way behind on popular US music...the radio is just too broad for me.)
Ok, the first one is a...you guessed it....Christophe Maé song. I've had it stuck in my head all day. So deal with it. But it's a really sweet song and he actually wrote it for his little boy, so the last few lines always make me think "awwwwwww." Well the whole song does really, but especially the last few lines.
I'll include the lyrics and a translation that makes sense (not google translate). I found this website where people who are fluent in different languages actually translate songs. You can post a song and request translations (with a free account) or just look up songs. They have a pretty big data base. It's called www.lyricstranslate.com. I highly recommend it. Ok, LYRICS:
French: Mon P'tit Gars
J'ai pas vraiment le temps de jouer à la poupée
Alors mon enfant, ne m'en veux pas
Je rattraperai ce temps-là, je te promets
Mais en attendant, ouvre le tiroir du bas
Tu y trouveras au fond, bien cachés
Quelques-uns de mes vieux soldats
Mais attention, tu n'as pas le droit de les casser
Ces soldats veillent sur toi
(refrain)
Et je te vois comme un grand guerrier
Qui ne tire pas de peur de blesser
Et je te vois comme un grand guerrier
Qui rit aux éclats devant toute une armée
J'ai pas vraiment le temps de corriger tes cahiers
Mais mon enfant, ne t'en fais pas
Si ce n'est pas parfait, je serai là pour gommer
Mais en attendant, lis cette histoire-là
Tu découvriras la vie du Petit Poucet
Qui a peur de se perdre dans ses pas
Mais pour toi, pas la peine de semer
Je l'ai déjà fait, c'est comme ça
(refrain)
Pour demain je souhaiterais qu'une chose
Que tu laisse tomber les soldats
Finalement pas grand-chose
Que tu restes un bon p'tit gars
(refrain)
Et je te vois
Et je te vois comme un petit écolier
Qui ne se bat pas de peur de blesser
Et je te vois
Et je te vois, mon pote, mon enfant
Mon p'tit gars, mon confident
Je te vois mort de rire dans la cour de récré
Oh, et je te vois
Je te vois, bras dessus bras dessous
Auprès de celle qui t'éloignera certainement de moi
Et je te vois
English: My Little Boy
I don't really have time to play with dolls
So my child, don't be mad at me
I will get that time back, I promise you
In the meantime, open the bottom drawer
You'll find in the back, well hidden
Some of my old soldiers
But be careful, you're not allowed to brake them
Those soldiers are watching over you
(chorus)
And I see you as a great warrior
Who doesn't shoot for fear of hurting
And I see you as a great warrior
Who roars of laughter in front of an entire army
I don't really have time to correct your homeworks
But my child, don't worry
If it's not perfect, I'll be there to erase
In the meantime, read this story
You'll discover the life of Tom Thumb
Who is afraid to get lost in his steps
But for you, there is no need to sow [basically "there's no need for you to worry about your future"]
I already did it, that's the way it is
(refrain)
For tomorrow I only wish for one thing
That you leave those soldiers
After all not that much
That you stay a good little boy
(refrain)
And I see you
And I see you as a schoolboy
Who doesn't fight for fear of hurting
And I see you
And I see you, my friend, my child
My little boy, my confidant
I see you dying of laughter in the playground
Oh, and I see you
I see you arm in arm
Near the girl who will probably take you away from me
And I see you
Ok. Next song. This song is by Captain Samouraï Flower aka Pascal Obispo. He is a pretty cool guy. When you see him he looks a little intimidating but then you hear him play the piano and sing these really sweet/melodious songs and it's like "hmmm...." But I really like this song. We've been working on translating and learning this song. It's pretty catchy. (I can't find the song on lyricstranslate so I'll translate from what we've learned in class. I'm pretty sure we learned the whole thing so...)
French: Le Drapeau :
Sans étoile, ni couronne, ni fleur
Que dans l'air, flotte une même couleur
Couleur
Chants d'amour, chants de bataille
Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 2)
Un signal, un emblème vainqueur
Sur nos dérives et nos erreurs
Prends le monde et prends tes armes
Prends soin du lendemain qui arrive
Qui arrive
Cherche pas d'autres batailles
Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 4)
Avec moi et l'armée des fleurs
On rêve aussi du meilleur
Chants d'amour, chants de bataille
Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 2)
Chants d'amour, chants de bataille
Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 5)
Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Tous avec le Captain Samouraï Flower
English: The Flag
Without stars, nor crown, nor flowers
That in the air, floats one same color [color here having the meaning of flag]
Color
Songs of love, songs of battle
There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x4)
A signal, an emblem of victory
On our drifts and our errors [drifts here meaning when you don't really know what you're supposed to be doing]
Take the world and take your arms [weapons, but not necessarily killing weapons] Take care for the tomorrows that arrive That arrive Don't look for other battles
There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x4)
With me and the army of flowers
We dream also of better things
Songs of love, songs of battle
There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x2)
Songs of love, songs of battle
There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x5)
[This part is where the little kid sings]
There is only one war to do today
All with the Captain Samouraï Flower
The lyrics are a little weird if you just read them. But the video kind of explains it a bit more. It's basically saying that we need to come together as one world to protect our planet so it will survive for years to come.
Ok, these next ones won't have translations. I just like them. You might recognize a few people in them ;)
Ok, so those guys are Les Enfoirés. It's this huge group of musicians/actors/other people with influence in the entertainment industry who all come together each year and put on this fantastic show to raise money for this one charity. It's kind of like a bunch of live music videos. But they also make actual music videos for some of their songs. These songs are some of my favorites. Though in one or two, don't remember which ones, there are some voices that I don't really care for. But overall these guys are great!
Are the most fun thing in the world!!! Had so much fun working the play last week, now it feels weird actually coming home after school. Everyone did great. And of course the after party was super fun!!
You guys....I DID AMAZING!!!!!!! (Especially for my first time doing a monologue at competition.)
And ESPECIALLY considering I got my monologue about 11 days before competition.
For round one I got a 9/10 which is superior.
For round two I got another 9/10 AND I was in the top 3 best performances in that round (albeit I was the third out of top three...BUT STILL!! I MADE TOP THREE!!)
And for round three I got an 8/10 which is an excellent.
Surprisingly the one that I thought I went the slowest on I actually went the fastest on haha Guess I was a bit excited to be done with competition.
AHHHHH!!!! This makes me so happy and gives me sooooo much confidence. And I had really nice judges who gave me great tips. Well...the first judge didn't really give many tips....and she called my voice "very one level, until she warmed up." Which was because of my character, not just me. But oh well, if that's the one critique that bugged me then that's pretty darn good!!
Time to find a monologue for next year!! Sadly next year will be my last :( I'm glad that I've gotten to go these past two years though. It's so much fun! You truly see so many great people who are talented and just plain nice.
IT'S SO ADDICTING TO LISTEN TO! For me...maybe because 3 great guys...3 great voices...The Frenchiness... Not sure exactly.
*Sigh* I love listening to French guys talk....
Christophe Maé, Emmanuel Moire, Merwan Rim, all singing a beautiful song. Not to mention a pretty darn good intro by Christophe.
This is tagged as song of the day...so now I also have to include the song that I was actually going to have as song of the day.
Beautiful play, AMAZING LIGHTS!!!! ARG I'm so jealous of this stage. Not to mention all of the people who got to see the play live..... *grumble grumble grumble*
By the way, I'm pretty sure Monsieur (Maé) earns the best/coolest/omg that must have been the itchiest wig ever!!!! award.
So, IT WAS AMAZING!!!! I had sooooo much fun!!! Even though I had to wake up early and it was cold on the bus ride there (and back) it was still fantastic. It was a great time to visit with friends and see some other really great performances. I also saw an old friend....though when I say "saw" I mean it literally. Never did get a chance to say hi.
Of course it was nerve wrecking as you walked into each round, but I can honestly say that I was not the worst in any round. We have rules for the competition. There is a minimum and maximum time. In all three rounds there was someone who had a REALLY short piece. Although, when I glanced at the timer after my last round, I became a little worried because my piece was only about 6 minutes...5 is the minimum and that felt like my slowest round. So I might have been too short on the other two rounds.
During the entertainment portion we watched some really great pieces. My favorites were the Unemployed Unicorns ("Let's do a lift!" *guy lifts other guy onto his shoulder* "Lift me higher! Like in Black Swan!" ""I watched that movie with my mom! Such a great family film!""). Those boys were hilarious! And this one about physical changes that happen when you're going through puberty (STD section: "Ew! It smells like you have herpagonnasyphlaids B!!"). Oh, and a student written scene called "Behind the screens." Can't remember any specific quotes from that one, but it was great!
In the end, our school went home with 2 pieces moving on to state, and one piece is a backup. But the exciting part is that one of our state pieces was written by a student, and a 10th grader at that!
This episode is awesome.
New intern. Baby's gender. Bones acting like Booth. Awesome body.
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT Ok, well. To start off. What a cool body. Half devoured by naked rats. Snake hiding in the lower half. And even better? The following quote is from the victim's husband: "I once saw her stick a 12 foot wiener in her mouth." No, she isn't a prostitute. She was a competitive eater.
Next, new intern. This Finn person...seems like an innocent southern boy genius at first...but I don't think it stops there. He has a criminal past. And it's not just a little joy ride here, a shoplifting incident there like he lets on. He attacked his step father with a hunting knife. Then, the step dad disappeared. DUN DUN DUUUN!!! I think that he is going to become an interesting character this season. Maybe even a...new villain? Ok. So I guess he didn't kill his step dad. And he actually seems like a pretty cool guy. So maybe he isn't the new villain.
BEST NEWS EVER!!! I WAS RIGHT!!! It's a girl!!!! Little Hodgins and Little Bones, sitting in a tree.... I am even more excited now. This is going to be such a great season!!!
Did I mention shocking but awesome snake up chuck?
So guess what tonight was? THAT'S RIGHT, WORLD!! BONES SEASON SEVEN!!!
Best parts:
Did you guys see that body? Oh my gosh! That was so gross when the eye oozed all of its eye goo...ewwww
Babyyyy Hodgins!!! Awww what a cutie!!!
I love how Booth always takes pictures of Brennan's embarrassing pregnancy moments XD
Worst part:
When the stupid news decided to interrupt! GAH! That was so stupid! I'm sorry news, but I really don't care about genetically modified produce when I'm watching Bones.
Things that made me go hmmm....:
Did anyone notice that Booth referred to the baby as "him"? Was it a hint? Or just daddy brain? Guess we'll have to wait...but I'm hoping for a little girlfriend for baby Hodgins ;)
All in all, AMAZING EPISODE! (DUH!)
Oh, and happy 30th post to me!! Furthest I've ever gone in a blog/journal thing. Ever.
Well, today's the day!!!! Finally after what seemed like forever, BONES RETURNS!!!! I have a feeling this will be an absolutely fantastic episode and the start to a great season. There are two things I'm looking forward to more than anything, babies and villains.
Last season Angela and Hodgins had their baby, so hopefully we'll see more of that little guy. And of course Booth and Brennan's little one.
It's been a while since we've had a really good villain, and I've heard rumors that this season will have a very exciting bad guy.
(Yes I know I just made a post about this garçon the other day, but I couldn't resist. This is such a sweet song.) *Could not find a perfect translation, but it's basically about how much he loves his mom.
Again, with Christophe, even if you can't fully understand it, it's a good song.
So when I was younger I loved Legos. My grandma had the bigger ones, in fact I don't even know if they were actual Lego brand, and my cousins and I would build towers all the way up to the ceiling! Or at least until we ran out of blocks...and that sound they made when they came crashing down, who doesn't love that sound? (I'll tell ya who, Gracie, that's who. Because she hasn't experienced the wonders of Legos.) We would make little cities or old tombs for our little Lego people to explore. Sadly this particular set didn't include any cars so we would normally build our own and pretend they had wheels. Until, that is, Grandma bought some new Legos that had cars and animals! That was our favorite toy to play with because everyone could be involved. We would all layout a basic (VERY basic) foundation, dubbing random blocks the "toilet" and "stove."
Then I got older and moved away from Legos a bit and more into Barbies and other dolls.
But now...OMG! There are so many different types of Legos!!
Now, I know what you're thinking. "You're old enough to be keeping a blog and yet you still play with Legos?!!" Yes. I am a teen who likes Legos. Because in my generation, for some reason all of the things that were cool when you were five are just as cool now. That and who can't resist exploding Spongebob's pineapple?
So tonight my step sister and I convinced my step mom that we needed a new board game. But when we got to Walmart there wasn't really anything interesting. My step sister is 8, so she isn't into the whole trying to guess a phrase thing that most group games are now days. We did consider Twister, but then we realized there is absolutely no where to set it up in our house. So we started looking at the other toys. Of course the cheap loud toys caught our attention and we were mildly entertained by that. But then we turned a corner and...There it was. The Lego aisle. Did you know they have entire Lego cities now? I certainty didn't!! There is this massive (for a Lego set it was massive) Police Station....we were in love. Only problem? $100. Sooo we decided that's going on the Christmas list. There were a bunch of vehicles. Some police vehicles, an awesome fire truck, this AMAZING air port!!! And a really cool police boat that looks like it floats in water...we weren't sure though. There were also Lego Creator sets. Basically it's 3 sets in one. My favorite one of those sets was the lighthouse. It could be a, get this, WORKING lighthouse, a boat launch station/dock, or a whale watching building. My step sister was in love with the Lego seagulls it came with (she has this thing for seagulls, I don't get it). And then we saw the ALIEN stuff!! My favorite one out of that collection was the UFO that was abducting a little farmer guy hahaha And there was also a brain sucking alien in one of the sets! (Ok, so I'm sure it's called something else, but it sure did look like he was sucking the guy's brains out.)
We had so many choices we didn't know what to get! We finally decided on the Police boat and the rest is on various birthday and Christmas lists. (Thankfully my step sis's birthday is less than a month away. We're hoping for the Police Station and Criminal Transport Vehicle as we realized there was no where to put the bad guy after we caught him.) We also told my step mom to buy herself and my dad one for their birthdays and then just give it to us.
Oh, we also left the store with some Play-Doh and a word scramble thing that my step mom wanted.
When we got home the real fun began! We cleared off the coffee table to have a good construction site that would hopefully make it easier to not lose any important pieces. When we took the hull of the boat out we discovered it was in one piece. Which is both good and not as good. It's good because it means it's water tight and should float. It's not good because that's like an hours worth of fun building time. We started constructing our boat and everything was going great. Until dinner time. We only had about a handful of pieces left but we had to stop. Then right after dinner was swim lessons for my step sister. I went along so I wouldn't be tempted to finish the boat. We completed our build and got a little play time in before bed. Can't wait to try it out in the tub tomorrow! It came with 3 people, 2 cops and 1 criminal. Two little hatches that will open up, one of which is big enough for the jet ski. Two life vests and some scuba gear, and of course the jet ski. I for one, think this definitely constitutes as a fair and amazing Lego pack. Now if only we can complete the town....
Here are some pictures of mentioned sets and possibly unmentioned, but still mention worthy, sets:
The 3-in-one Lighthouse/Whale Watching/Boat launch set
Our Police Boat- Isn't it epic??
Isn't this the coolest Police Station ever??? There is even grass!!!!
The one-eyed thing is the brain sucker.
I love Legos. Plain and simple. No it has nothing to do with Bones but it seems more people read my other posts if I tag Bones in them. If you don't like it...TOO BAD >:)
