my familys 'six hour' drive

Yesterday was the day when my family said chiao to Tuscany and bonjour to France. 

We all packed up in the morning and started driving at 11:00.  My mom said that the drive would be six hours, me and both my sisters were not looking forward to this.  We drove for what, one hour until one of my sisters, of course had to go to the bathroom so we stopped at a gas station.  Since it was lunch time my sister and I asked if we could get something to eat, my dad replied sure!  I was just thinking about what I was going to order when I heard my dad open the trunk of the car and grab a loaf of bread and a package of ham. inside my head I did the loudest scream but of course I didn't show any expression of it.  Anyways most home made things are better, right?

After we had left the gas station we drove for  three more hours until we came to the Italian Riviera.  We walked down to the beach to touch the Medatrainian sea.  I saw a lot of people with their bikini tops off( I guess its a French thing.)

  when we left the beach everyone in our party got thirsty so we went to the closest gelato place we could find.  Instead of having gelato my sister and I got slushies.

When we hoped back into the car I asked my parents how much longer they replied that since we had been driving for four hours we would have two more hours left.  Then another question accured in my head, how long till we get to France?  When I asked this question the answer was way different, my parents said they have no idea.

Two more hours went by and finally we got into France, although we didn't know this because there was no boarder!  Instead of a boarder there was a small sign saying "In 100 meters France will begin" or something like that.  

Did you know that because there is   Well shortly after my family got into France we had to go to a telli pass to pay.  There was a 10 minute line for some of the booths and 1 second lines for some of the others.  Since my parents did not want to have to wait in the 10 minute line they steered are car into one of lines that was a couple seconds.   That was when we realized that the telli pass we had went into had no person working in the booth. 

My dad touched one button and a lot of weird French words came out through the speekers.  When my dad thrust in his credit card the machine would not except it.  He tried again...  it still would not take his credit card.  After about 3 minutes of trying a person came over to help us.  My dad told him that the machine was not taking his credit card.  Suddenly our gate that we were in just opened!  We had absoulutly no idea that we had payed!

After that one telli pass we got onto the right route and only took us 2 more hours to get home.  All in all the car ride was a big pain but was quite the adventure!

a family adventure

I am offically out of school.  At this moment many people ask me "why?" and I simply reply I am going on an adventure.  I also say that I am going to Europe.  But when I say that I say it with no expression, I do this because I don't want to go.  I mean what is the point?  I usally ask this exact question to my parents and they say "its going to be fun! You are going to see another part of the world, its going to be a great experiance!"  But in my head I know its not going to be fun at all.  All my familys going to do is sightsee.  Also I am going to miss all the year end parties for my activities!  I am going to miss my gymnastics party, my school end party, my fathers day piano recital, it is no fair!  Well there is nothing I can do about it now, after all my plane leaves today!  To bad...

Jacques Yves Cousteau-explorer extrordinaire

Jacques Cousteau was a french explorer.  He explored the oceans.  Many people have heard that he used to have his own T.V show.  But that's not what this post is about.  This post is about how he became to be a explorer.  Lets start when he was a teenager.  When he was a teenager world war two was going on.  He was very brave and helped the british spy on Germany.  He was very successfull, so a couple years later he was going to become a naval pilot.  But when that was about to happen he got in a really bad car crash.  He puntured his left arm in five different places broke three of his ribs, paralyzed his right arm, and worst of all killed his dream of becoming a naval pilot- he couldn't fly with his right arm paralyzed!  As soon as he got down from the mountain he went strait to see a doctor.  The doctor told him that this was a serious ingery and that it needed to heal.  Jacques Cousteau asked him how and the doctor said to swim so the doctor lent Cousteau some swim goggles.  As soon Jacques felt up to it he went down into the ocean.  In just a couple seconds cousteau relized that he had a new passion to replace flying.  A couple years later-when cousteau was old enough to have his own boat he leased one.  The ships name was Calypso.  Cousteau leased it for less than one dollar every  year-but that was back in the olden days!  After that Jacques Cousteau kept exploring untill he died on June 25 1998.  But there is absolutly still room in peoples brains for him, afterall he is extrordinary!