NIAGRA FALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm back part 2)

You know those paintings of sunsets with bunch of seagulls around it and you think"I wonder what that really looks like"...well after where I went today I can tell you how it looks....it is incredible.
When you look at post cards of Niagra Falls and you wonder if that sweat it really looks like...or occasionally way it would feel like if you fell over the rim of the lookout area  and right down the waterfall and landed super hard on jagged rocks...na normally the first one...anyway.I know that when I lok at these post cards I normally think both.And although the first one seems super gross..it is actually quite beautifully proven wrong..as weird and confusing as that sounds...but I will explain.

We went tot his thing today called Madens of the mist.And this a boat ride right around and almost under Niagra Falls.There are to parts of the falls.The over lapping part of the falls,and then the horseshoe part of the falls.Most of the postcards show the overlapping part of the falls, but the horseshoe is amazing.

You get your tickets,and then you take an elevator up to the top floor,where you walk down this long path to this tent,where they give you these water proof "vests"a.k.a.giant plastic bags.It was super windy there and putting on the plastic bags wasn't necessarily a walk in the park.You first have to unfold the plastic bag and then you have to find the head and try and put it over the baggy sweatshirts you have to wear.Then for some reason the people who designed these plastic bags melted the arms shut.So you have to  rip the arms open and then try and put your arms three the ripped bag.Once you get the plastic bag on you go and stand in line ad watch other people stubble to put on there bags.Than of course my parents being who they are...tightened the headstraps and looked like totally mental homeless people  who somehow snuck onto this ship.But they were super funny about...and i think they scared some tourists ...anyway.once you get in line and they start boarding the ship you have to shove your way to get a good spot... and i got an excellent spot.right at the front of the ship.And it was beautiful...what I saw..you see at some points it was so windy and we were so close to the falls that you had to close you eyes..or take really quick looks.And all of a sudden,when i could see,there was the painting...the painting of the seagulls...millions of them just soaring right next to us...that was so beautiful.

I cannot tell you on a computer how amazing this was...or if i tried it would take me like 20 pages.If you want to know exactly what I'm talking about...your gonna have to go see it yourself...unless I know you than I can just tell you when I see you haha...anyway...Well,even if i do know you,you should real go see it.it will blow your mind.  

I'm back.

So.For the past 4 days I have been in Milwaukee.In Milwaukee I have my Aunt Jodie and her husband Steve.And while I was in Milwaukee I also got to see my 2 cousins Mikail and Ryan.They used to live in Milwaukee but now they live in Chicago and have a job at this restaurant called Next.Now let me give you a little back story.

A few years ago,Mikail,his friend Peter,and his friend Gordy,came to live with us for awhile.Mikail staid for about a year,But peter left a few weeks before that and Gordy left a few months before that.But anyway...while Mikail was living with us we formed this kind.....this sounds weird but we formed this kind of um..."relationship"...meaning like brother sister relationship...sort of...You know.We were eating dinner and he flicked my face and i punched his arm and then he put me in a headlock and spit in y hair and then i got out of the head lock and spit on his arm and aaaallll of that kind of stuff...

I also have a little cousin named Mable.She is the daughter of my uncle Dan and his wife Jen.Mable is 2 years old and extremely intelligent and loves to read.Whe we took her into the RV the first thing she said was"neat"and when we left she turned around and said"I want to go back" haha so cute!

My mom grew up in Milwaukee along with her 5 other siblings.She lived in shore wood were my aunt Jodie lives now.

There were a few  bad things that happened in milwaukee but none of them had to do with people.When we were eating dinner all of a sudden my phone freaked and deleted all of my pictures so i don't have anything from my trip except for 10 pictures from Milwaukee which I will show but i was really sad that I lost them all.

Ok,one rrreeeaaaalllllyyyy annoying thing that happened...we went shopping.Oh my god it was awful,i don't hate shopping but on a weekend with my mom...shopping is bad.It wasn't all her fault that the only shopping trip for the first few months was total torture.I was not the best shopper either but...im not gone tell you who's fault it was I am just gonna tell you....IT WAS SSSSSOOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!
I am not against shopping.If I go with my friends I am totally fine...but with my mom by herself...never again...

Some other stuff happened in Miwaukee but for some reason right now I cant think of it..probably from driving so long and then having a super crappy dinner.....oh well Ill tell you if i think of anything.


P.s.i am so sorry if there are a few typos...honestly i am... :)

last few days

Ok...for the last few days I have been in Minneapolis.Where I did a few things.

We stayed at our friend Donnas house.And....I GOT MY OWN ROOM!!!!!!!In the rv I kinda get my own room.Well,my room is right above the drivers seat and it s a little bed and both ends there is a huge space to store my close,laptop,and all that stuff.But of course its an rv so...you get the idea.It was os nice having my own room.I got a tv,an awesome lava lamp,a really good bed and a few other things.

In Minneapolis we went to the art museum where my dad used to teach art.And there is a funny story about that.Ok.When my dad was teaching art there one day,he saw that they were going to have an art show  that looked like crap.So,to show my dad and his classes displeasure with that crappy art show,he took his students into his basement one night,and he took a bunch of chicken wire,paper mache,and a lot of poster paint,and they created giant pieces of...crap.Yes.To show how much they hated that crappy art show,they created crap,and in the middle of the night,they all dressed in black,and they put about 8 get of fake crap outside the museum.And the museum staff had no idea what was going on so they just left it there 2 weeks.

On the first day we got to Minneapolis we went to this restaurant that was really good but the cool thing is that Martha Stewart had eaten there just a week ago.Here are some more pics.and this pic is f the crazy horse monument.

One other thing that we did go to see was the sculpture garden.And there is this one thing in the sculpture garden and it is like a green house and in the middle of it is this pond and in the pond is a giant glass fish which my dad made.

friends

Now we are in Minnneapolis.Where some of our friends live.

Our friends our letting us stay in there ouse for a few days.My room is awesome!!!I get my own tv and my own bed with an awesome  view of the outside street.

In Minneapolis,the weather is either really hot,or really cold.....there is absolutely no,in between. So,they created these things called skywalks.The skywalks or the skywalk,is basically this giant mall that always changes its inside temperature to be the opposite of the temperature outside.It will be freezing cold,like cold the you are not supposed to be outside.And you will se people with shorts and tank tope or short sleeve t-shirts and a giant back pack,and they will be going to the skywalk mall because the temperature is always the right weather.The skywalks part of the skywalk mall,are these walkways that go straight three the city right across the buildings.And,a few years ago,my dad installed an art piece in one of the skywalks.

There are so many big buildings and pieces of art work in Minneapolis.A few years ago,a bridge collapsed in Minneapolis,and sssoooo many people died.The memorial for them are 6 giant glowing neon tubes in front of a fountain.Anyway here is a pic of me next to a jackalope.A long time ago,there were these hunters,that would attach antelope horns to jack rabbits,and would trick tourists that these animals were real ,but they were going extinct,and people would believe them and buy these jackalopes for hundreds of dollars.We found this one in one of the biggest tourist places of all.it is well known for all of the junk that they cell.They also are known for there free iced water which is only occasionally cold.More pictures will be posted on the next blog post.

pictures!!!!!!

HOT SPRINGS!!!!!

there were about 100 buffalo out there.and here are just a few.

you might not know this

Crazy Horse.When you here that what do you think of.When I first heard we were going to see the Crazy Horse monument I thought we were going to go see a giant horse head  that had been carved into stone.When you here the name Mount Rushmore what do you think of.Do you ever wonder why the presidents are in that order or why those are the 4 presidents that have had here faces carved into stone.You see.Where I went today explains all those things.The Crazy Horse monument and Mount Rushmore.But do you know these things.The crazy Horse monument was created by a man named Korkczak Ziolkawski was born in Boston of polish decent.He had started carving crazy horse when he was fairly young and he brought his ten children five boys,five girls,and hid wife into the process.Even though Korkczak is now dead,7 of his 10 children continue to work on crazy horse to this day and i even saw them work on it when i was there.The head of crazy horse is 87 and a half feet long.His arm,263 feet.His hand,33 feet.His horses mane,62 feet and his horses head,219 feet.The feather in crazy horses hair is 44 feet.The total hight of this monument is 563 and,it is 641 feet long.

Now I have a question for you.why were those 4 presidents put on Mount Rushmore...




pictures from this post and the previous post will be shown on the next post.

Best so far

The last few days have been the best days of the trip.We went to Yellowstone and it is such a beautiful place.

The first day at Yellowstone we went to Mammoth hot springs.Mammoth hot springs is full of some amazing things to see.My dad went to Yellowstone a few years ago and he said that it was different back then.He said that the hot springs had more color and that there were much more that were actually working and less that had stopped and sat there with all of the left over  minerals that used to help it bubble and boil.


In the brochure that you will see about Yellowstone...must have been takin a few years ago because it does NOT,look the same.Yes it still has patches of color but most of it is covered in white mineral.But,that mineral did make some beautiful things.In one of the hot springs were bunch of fossilized bugs...and it was ssssooooo cool!There were fossilized butterflies dragonflies crickets bees and there were also some flowers which were really pretty.

The next day when we were driving to see Old Faithful, or what we called for the day Old Unfaithful,we saw smoke in the distance and we decided to stop and take a look.It was the hot springs again,but,since it had rained the night before,they had ssssooo much more steam and it was ssssooo many different colors!some were blue some were red some green,....it was amazing.Anyway back to old unfaithful.


Old faithful is a geyser that is supposed to be faithful in the time that she explodes...meaning spits boiling water super high in the air for 1 to 5 minutes...well we were there for about an hour and she wouldn't spit anything up!!!so we decided to go have lunch in the biggest wooden structure in the world instead of waiting for the poor old unfaithful to not spit up on time.

Today we were planning on leaving Yellowstone and when we were driving out of the park we saw HUGE clouds of smoke rising in the distance.it was the hot springs but not mammoth hot springs...this hot spring was not as well known so it did not have as many people...but it was better than mammoth!!!!!

There were so many amazing springs!some looked like huge pots of bubbling clay and then there were some that were super hot and spitting up aaaalllll over the place!But,my favorite was......the Dragons Mouth...it was so amazing.there was this huge whole and at the back was this cave and every 2 seconds a giant puff of smoke would shoot out so it looked like a dragon was back there blowing fire!!!!or should i say blowing smoke....IT WAS SO AMAZING!!!!!!it also looked like something you might see out of Pirates of the Caribbean.....IT WAS SO COOL!!!!

once we started driving again we saw....about 100 buffalo and one of them cam right up next to the RV..it was soooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are such rental animals although they look big and scary and if they poked you with one of there horns you would probably die....but they would only do that if you got them mad....but if you don't get them mad they are super nice....and SUPER COOL!!!!!


(pictures will be shown in the next blog)