Woodworking suprise

The other day my mum and I went to out to the Ideal Home Show, which was really cool. The main reason we went there was because I needed to hand in a colouring competition from property brokers. My favourite stall was a place called HRV, a heat installation place, because I loved their helium balloons as the make me talk in a really funny voice that makes me sound like Alvin and the chipmunks. But the cool thing happened near the end of our visit, I was watching a man making a spinning top for me when a lady came and asked my mum and I about my interests in woodworking. Then she let me have a go on a cool woodworking machine called a scroll saw, which is a bit like a sewing machine, only instead of a sewing needle it had a small saw that cuts wood. I tried to cut out a rabbit shape out of a piece of wood and the results were good, except instead of a rabbit I got a rabbit with a beard! AND.... soon I'm going to be able to practice it more often because I'll be able to practise it at the lady's house. If I get into it, Mum might even give me one for Christmas! I think scroll sawing is something that I want to get into, and so long as I keep my fingers away from the blade, I'll be fine.

My 10th Birthday

Yesterday was an absolute blast, and you know why? IT WAS MY 10TH BIRTHDAY! However, instead of having the actual party on my birthday, we moved it back one day. It was really fun. We went to a cool indoor go-kart racing place called Daytona, then we went to the lido and I finally encouraged myself to spend $15 to allow me and my party guests, J and K, to go down the hydroslides. When the slides opened and I was about to go down, I was so scared that I thought I was going to wet my togs, but I beat my fear and went down. I even went down the fastest one! After that we went to Video Ezy to rent some movies, then we went home and it was then I realised that J and K were having a sleepover with me in the lounge, we even got to stay up until 10:30 watching the movies we rented. The next morning was a bit more interesting, while we were still waking up, K went to get dressed, and when he came back my supposed-to-be-in-bed baby brother came in after him and I had a slight hint of worry since K had let him out! So I took him back to his bedroom (which was a bit of a hassle since he didn't want to go back into bed), then Mum came out, so I explained to her what happened. Luckily, she showed no signs that I was in trouble (phew!). For the rest of the morning we sat there watching movies and playing an awesome playstation snowboarding game called SSX Tricky. I was a bit disappointed when J & K left because I enjoyed having them over, but at least I had it while it lasted, and their present was great. It was a game called Rummy-o. Speaking of presents, I got a cool present from my Oma... a crystal mining kit that I am really looking forward to using, and then there was a not-so-cool present from my uncle... a book about poo >__<. On my actual birthday, my Mum gave me her own point-and-shoot camera, complete with all the stuff it came with, and my Dad gave me some cool new Ben 10 bedding. I think that yesterday was the best birthday ever, only 364 days til my next one!