End of Summer Fun

Hi Claire and Stella! I hear you are now in Tanzania. We went on a trip too. First to a wedding in Eugene, then we went to Coos Bay where I got a shark tooth necklace and a statue of two dolphins, and some new agates. For two whole days I rode horses. I rode three horses, one was named Little Chief, one was named Dreams and one was named Spamoni. The very nicest and easiest one was Spamoni. I loved it a lot. My Aunt Lisa has 5 horses and I rode them with my cousin Sarah. Then we went to Wildlife Safari. An emu came up to our window and pecked at it. We saw a giraffe that you might see. We saw rhinos that didn't even have a cage and they could walk right up to your car. Good thing they didn't. :) Me and my brother got to ride a camel. Did you know that camel's hump is really soft? Probably no camels in Tanzania. We saw a big boa constrictor. I wanted to hold it instead of looking at it. We saw a porqupine and a screech owl. Here are some other animals we saw. Black bears, grizzly bears, flamingos, elephants, a pond with a statue of an elephant that poured out water into the pond, gibbons who weren't in a cage, but they had water around them. They had a tire swing and they could swing their arms sooooooo far, ostrich, antelopes, mustangs, lions and tigers ten feet away, cheetahs, (the cheetah was raised with a dog named Ellie. I saw them play together. ) We saw elk, hippos, buffalo, you might see a hippo, don't let it chomp your canoe in half! I hear they can do that. Hippos are dangerous animals. We saw others, but I can't list them all. We also went to the gift shop and I got a stuffed snake, a zebra pen and an address book with a lion on it.

Today I went to school because my teacher from last year saved me a dragonfly she found that was in perfect shape. I met my new teacher and she was very nice. I saw my pencil pouch and it was my very favorite color, blue. I was the first person to put them in my desk. I realized that lots of my friends will be in my class. They even have a chalkboard, because last year we had a whiteboard instead. All the other grades have chalkboards and we get to write with colored chalk. I start school next week on the 2nd. I've already picked out my outfit. But still it's in a uniform.

That's all for now, there will be more later...