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Well here we are at Jackson park ten minutes and counting and my father, my Friend Alex and myself are about to finish the science experiment that I've Ben planing ever since space camp. while we were launching rockets and I noticed two identical rockets. one was a dud and later exploded and the other one shot up and fell straight down and stuck in the ground fins up. I thought that if you deliberately altered the shape/weight of the rocket, the trajectory would be different. so now here we are after three weeks of writing, hypothesizing, building and selecting a launch site... I was finally ready to launch. Alex is standing behind me with a note book, ready to monitor the launch pattern, my dad is taking pictures around us, we put the engine in place and hook the electric starter, which sends an electric pulse through the wire into the metal wires and sparks a small charge in the engine, causing the entire thing to explode sending the rocket up, and stared the count-down from 15. "15...14...13...12..." I couldn't wait! "8...7...6..." those guys playing racket ball over there would flip out! "4..." I inserted the launch key. "3..." The light glowed a neon red. "2..." my finger quivered over the ignition button. "1...LAUNCH!" I pressed the button and-- nothing absolutely nothing. Not even a slight pop, a sign that it was a dud.
I removed the key as Alex went to go check the connections. "There fine! try it again." he said as he ran back. so we did starting from 5. "5...4...3..."insert key"...2...1...launch!" still nothing. by the fifth time I was pretty pissed off and just hammering away at the button (Unsafe I know.) had shouting "come on!" at the launch controller. so after 19 false starts and twenty photos later, we assumed that the batteries that I grabbed were near dead and so we scrubbed the launch and are planing for another weekend. hopefully it will provide me with the information that I need to complete my report.
-more later

Today I went to the Museum of Doll Art. With Mom and Andrew. It was a blast! There was at least 1,200 dolls! 1,200! That is a lot. And there where tall dolls,short dolls,walking dolls,talking dolls,dolls with interchangeable heads,and many more kinds of dolls. It was very fun and informational. I hope that I can go again!

Today I went to the Reptile Zoo with Cedar, my four-year-old next door neighbor, and we looked around at the lizards. After a while we asked if we could hold these snakes that were in this big glass case thing. An albino corn snake nearly slithered down Cedars shirt head first!

She laughed a lot! And kept on saying "I don't care". Andrew held a FIVE foot python! It went around his neck and stayed there for 20 minutes! I held the corn snake and I held the python once. I also held the green-grey snake with black stripes which didn't coil very much, but the corn snake did.

The snakes were pretty slithery and smooth and stuff. They were pretty strong! The corn snake kept coiling around my wrist and slithering up my arm. The striped snake didn't do much, it just kinda laid there. Its tail was plump like it's body and not like a regular snakes tail where it thins out at the end.

My mom asked me if I wanted a snake because they are easier to care for than a tortoise. I liked the corn snake, it was really pretty and also it didn't try to fall off my arm to get away. It didn't do much escaping. I thought the corn snake was very sweet.

We also saw an alligator snapping turtle. We heard the other tortoises mooing! You never would have realized that tortoises can moo. The sound was cowy.

We also saw an American Albino Alligator and two headed red-eared slider, an Iguana called Spikes, a Monitor Lizard named Phil, another Iguana named Doc and a Water Monitor which I don't know the name of.

It was a fun trip!

If I could have any pet I would have a hamster. It would be black and white and would be a girl. Her name would be Snow-Jer. Snow-Jer would have a cage the size of a school desk. I would feed her when I get up, when I get home from school, and before dinner. I would give Snow-Jer bathes [sic] and clean her cage twice a week. Also I would clean her ball three times a week. Then I wold let her excersize [sic] 4 times a day. That would be my pet if I could have anyone in the world.

101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher is the best way to plot how you can bug next year's teacher over the summer. In this book there are 101 different ways to bug the teacher. If you start on June 21st, you can plot the whole thing using all of the ways in a different order. That is why I recommend 101 ways to Bug Your Teacher to read this summer.

"Hi Mrs. Beetle, my name is Fiona Bowen, but you can call me Fi."

"Hello Fiona, my name is Beatrix Beetle, but you can call me Beatrix."

"So Beatrix, I hear you have a granddaughter named Red Beetle whom wears a red hood all of the time?"

"That is true Fiona. I do have a granddaughter named Red."

"Also you do extreme sports like skiing, mountain bike riding and other extreme sports, Beatrix?"

"Yes. Also I make secrets recipes with little Red. So what do you do Fiona?"

"Well, I go to school, do my homework, play, take care of my fish, make sure I get a birthday party and do anything any other kid would do."

"I see. Well, I'm sure I can arrange a playdate for you and Red at my house."

"Cool. Well, I'm 8 years old. How old is Red?"

"She's' 8 just like you, Fiona."

"Sweet. So say Wednesday after school?"

"Sounds great to me and you can bake my secret recipes."

"Great. I'll ask my mom first."

"Also Red is a human. I was turned into a beetle by a witch named Cynthia."

"Oh poor you! Turned into a beetle by a nasty old witch named Cynthia."

"Well goodbye, Fiona. Talk to you soon."

"Bye Beatrix. You poor old thing. Talk to you later, uh I mean, soon."

My sister Maggie and my brother-in-law Steve welcomed Benjamin Michael into the world this evening at 7:39pm Pacific.

He's 10lbs. 10 oz. and 22" long.

Congratulations! Pictures forthcoming!

One day,I woke up a mysterious coat appered on the end of my bed. So I got out of bed and walked to the end of the bed, thinking I wonder what it does. Then when I put on the coat I started to think should I eat breakfast first then I thought no. After that a little note appeared on the bed it said, "Who ever is wearing this coat it could take you anywhere but beware this coat might do the opposite of what you say - Merlan."
I couldn't see the signature but whoever said "beware" is kind of weird. So I told the coat where I wanted to go, Dublin, Ireland, then the coat did something weird first I shrunk then I disappeared. Instead of falling on the hard streets of Dublin I landed on soft and dusty sand. I said ow anyway because it was a hard, hard hit on the sand. After that I stood up and noticed there were weird tops on the buildings. I had no idea where I was! It took me three hours to find someone who spoke English then I asked the girl, "Excuse me, what is this place?"
The girl said, "This is India. Why do you ask so?" I said, "Oh, I was just asking because I had no idea where I was." I told the coat to take me back home. The coat took me back home. Then I ran down the steps. Mom, Dad and Sheila, my twin sister, were sitting at the table. When I got to the table Mom asked me, "Where were you?" I replied, "Sleeping. Why do you ask?"
She said, "Just wondering." Then I sat at the table with my P.J.s on and we began to eat breakfast.