Summer Holidays So Far

This holiday has already got off to quite a good start, I have been out, seen friends and just generally had a good time... even on the days when I am inside because I have my pooch! So I am just going to 'summer'ise... yeah I know it's terrible but I genuinely accidently wrote that when meaning to write summarize.

Thursday 28th July - Imogen came over, to meet Ella and see me of course. She loved Ella... even though Ella later attacked her (playfully of course, she wouldn't mean harm - honest.) Also, because we both love boardgames we played monopoly a couple of times. The first game I won by more than 6500 monopoly dollars and the next game Imogen won by an amount similar to what I won by. They were good games. We also played scrabble, it was pretty crap game, we had rubbish letters and so nothing decent got put down. I had a ton of vowels and Imy ran out of them... wonder where they went. Well, Imy won that too. I think we also played downfall, but I don't remember who won those games. We had a great day, well I know I did anyway...

Friday 29th July - BBQ at the beach. Now this day was not the best weather, a little cloudy, but it was still nice to meet up with people and the BBQ wasn't all that bad. We bought lots of food from Iceland, including burgers, skewers, burger buns, fizzy drink and pink and whites. (I had already bought the sausages and people had already got the BBQs.) I was even smart enough to bring some tongs with me... it would have been a little more challenging if I had not remembered! The food was good, I did now touch the burgers because they looked like circles of ice cream and just complete crap. I think only a couple of people had any. Alex mainly... he took the remains home. There was also a little dog that came on to the beach, no owner about, and it found a string of sausages (not left by us) and it was pretty funny watching this little dog and the big string of sausages walk around the beach. After this, Maddy, Lauren, Dan and Amy asked to come and meet Ella. I had got the train, they got the bus so I told them where to get off and Dan used his phone satnav to get to my house. It worked well and they all loved Ella... of course! 

Tuesday 2nd August - Pottermore. This is the day I got my pottermore account. I got the right answer of the question, after failing the day before, and was sent to a guardian website. Meanwhile, Tim had already found it so he was telling me where it was and thinking I was thick when I couldn't see it because apparently I couldn't miss it. I was getting so annoyed because I couldn't see it. Then I realised that my adblock might be blocking the quill, so I paused it, refreshed and... what do you know... there is the quill!!! So irritating. I registered but I still don't have much of a clue what Pottermore is so I shall have to wait for my welcome email. Kinda excited! If anyone knows what Pottermore might be... let me know!! 

Wednesday 3rd August - BEACH! I had heard the day before that the weather would be good, so I had already decided I would go to the beach. But I had nobody to go with because my sister kept abandoning me for her friends. I didn't think anyone was free but then Tim decided he would change the week that he had planned to do his extended essay so I invited him over to see Ella and go to the beach. My sister and her friend Emily also came along and we took the dingy too... it was great fun. We used the oars as bats and played some sort of ball game with a tennis ball. Although... I later broke the oars... oops! Never mind... they are fixable! And to top it off we had toffee and butterscotch ice cream, which was SO nice! Yummy!

Thursday 4th August - Boardgames Day! Now this really was a great day, so fun! Imy hosting the day this time, so me, Tim, Julian, Jess and Jack all got the train over to hers... although Tim missed it - stupid boy ;)

We played all sorts of games, uno (which Imy said she would win... but didn't haha), cluedo mysteries, scrabble and of course... Articulate. Probably one of the best games ever!! I will definitely get that game for myself at some point! It's basically pictionary but speaking instead of drawing, and you only have 30 seconds for your team mates to guess as many as possible. Everyone gets so excited. The other team (Tim, Imy and Julian) got to the end and they had to do one nature question... the answer was trout. Tim was the speak and jsut told them to name lots of fish. They were naming cod, mackrel etc and Tim said 'bigger fish, bigger fish' and Imy shouted 'SHARK' and Tim was getting so frustrated, it was so funny. Meanwhile, Jess, Jack and I were staring at the timer waiting for the last drop of sand to go through and cheered when it did. So funny. They still ended up winning though. We played another game after that and Jess, Tim and I won. 

Summer is Calling!

These last few days I have been really surprised that the weather has actually been pretty decent, for a change. I've been sitting outside to eat my lunch rather than sitting in the hall, which is a very nice change as the hall is absolutely freezing! I am pretty sure that it is actually colder in the hall than it is inside.

I was sat outside at break with some friends and I was really enjoying being in the sun so in my free Dan and I sat outside for 10 minutes, then went inside to count DVDs for a collection Dan and other people are doing to raise money to go to Africa for the D of E and while he was entering details into the computer I did my biology work that I had to do then afterwards we went back outside to sit on a bench in the grassy area (which is a park, apparently...) for the last part of our free.

It was very nice sitting outside just enjoying the heat of the sun and talking about how nice it will be to go to the beach in the summer! I honestly can't wait, summer is calling my name and I just want to go and jump in the sea. Actually, thinking about it much had been around this time last year that I went in the sea for the first time. I'm pretty sure it was in April and it was absolutely freezing, but it was nice at the same time. 

I can not wait until the summer really start so I can go to the beach all the time. I hope it is a good summer, so I can go as much a possible because the beach is my favourite place ever and I can get out my beach ball again. I had to get a new one this year because the sea swallowed my pink one :( but it's all good because the one I got it bigger and better so really, it was kind of a good thing. 

P.S. Dan has been nagging me to feature our games of slaps in one of my blogs. I'm not really sure why or when we started playing slaps but basically we now play it any time really, just to fill time when we are doing nothing. Both our hands end up looking a bit red but it doesn't hurt so that's alright. Although Dan cheats and doesn't give me time to get back after I pull away... cheat! 

It started off that I was really good and Dan could barely ever get a turn, but then I kind of lost my touch and my reactions were terrible! But it alright because I seem to have got my touch back and I'm back in game! Beware Dan...