Monday 27 January 2014

Winter Bites!

On the 25th of January there was a carnival called Winter Bites in Canada. Me and my dad, mum, brother and sister went to it and it was so fun! The first thing we did was check out the snow hill and played on it for about 6 minutes and went on to the snowboard. It's like one of those bull things ---->


...and there was a hockey game on. It was so cool, but they were 8 year olds (wish that it would be 12 year olds!) and when the hockey players game is over we get to skate. After the skating we had some thing to eat. We all had a hotdog and fries and I shouted Madz and Coco a deep fried mars bar. After we ate we went to see the pigs, goats and a bunny. We went home wet and cold and when we got home we had a hot coco.

By Theo

Click on the link below to see me on the snowboard machine!




Sunday 26 January 2014

Larry

So uh this is by Madeline

I was walking home, eating some popcorn, doing the very elegant shove-as-much-popcorn-in-your-mouth-as-possible technique. (as one would do on the long journey home) when I heard what I thought were the clip clop of high heels. Every few steps, the heels would stop. I managed to walk two blocks before I just had to see why the lady (unless a man was wearing some weird kind of boots) kept stopping. So, being the naturally curious person I am, I turned. And about 2 houses down from me, was a deer. Head bent, eating up the small trail of discarded popcorn that sadly missed my mouth, it was completely unaware of me. I named him Larry. So, I quietly resumed my walking and shove-as-much-popcorn-in-your-mouth-as-possible technique. I think he followed me about 3 blocks all together, but stopped when I finished my popcorn. 


I never saw Larry again.


By meeeeeeeeeeeeee





Snow Boarding Machine

I spent $3.00 for the snow boarding machine. I could jump on the snow board and I could jump off and get back on. The snow board was short. 

By Cohen
Click on the link below to see me snow boarding!

http://vimeo.com/85112452




Winter Bites Festival

I went to Winter Bites. I also got to play on the snow and I belly slide down the hill.

I went ice skating for the 1st time. It was fake ice and that's why the people were falling down. It was awesome.

I ate a yummy deep fried mars bar. It tasted like the planet Mars - quite rocky! It smelled chocolatey!

By Cohen


Mmmmm...Candy Floss!

I got my face painted like Iron Man

Skating on the fake ice!                          
Eating my deep fried Mars Bar


Sunday 5 January 2014

WE ARE CANADIAN!!

Well, technically, only 1/5 of us is Canadian...me...but my mum's friend, Brenda, bought us these t-shirts as a, "Welcome to Canada pressie!"

I found it hilarious as there is a trend here where families like to dress the same for family photos...so we thought it would be fun to a "matchy-matchy" family for once! 

It was freezing, but again, funnily enough, only the Canadian felt the cold. Madeline, Theo and Cohen all wear short sleeves...even shorts in the cold! Filo even wears jandals some days! Oh well...they are kiwis after all!

Enjoy the photos, eh! (see what I did there)

Andrea



Saturday 4 January 2014

French Canadian Dinner

My Bunka made this pie for our New Year's Eve dinner. First I tried the star thing on it. It tasted like pastry and a little like honey. The pie itself had more of a savoury taste like the meat and it was so nice that I had two slices of it. We all liked it even Coco/Cohen. The recipe is from Quebec. 



Here is a recipe if you want to try it! 

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/17/the-best-quebec-tourtiere-recipe-for-the-holidays