Day Two in Paris

Started off the day getting back on the double decker bus. We wrapped up warmly today.   We did a bit of tourist shopping (yes G we found you a key ring) then jumped on a different route on the bus from yesterday. So much to see.   First stop Notre Dame cathedral. 

Then back on the bus. We then drove up the Champs-Élysées were we got off to take some photos. This is were Bear Bear and Crabby tried to escape‼️ We noticed Bear Bear jump out of the backpack and realised Crabby was missing. We were at this stage in the middle of the road trying to take photos. We turned around and there he was beckoning to Bear Bear. We grabbed him and foiled their escape plan 😄

Then they tried to steal our food 😂

Back on the bus and headed to the Eiffel Tower. What an amazing sight!  Just as we got off the bus we saw about 6 street vendors running towards us.  They were being chased by a policeman on a push bike. 10 minutes later they were back!

Unfortunately the photo Dad took of me I have my eyes closed 😂

So back on the bus to Le louvre. The line was long but moved quickly.  This place was amazing and so huge we got lost numerous times!  We only got to see a small portion as we also wanted to see the Love Lock Bridge

Photo taken from inside looking out

The original Mona Lisa 

Last stop of the day. The love lock bridge. They have started putting up barriers to try and stop people putting more locks cause they are worried about the weight of the padlocks

PARIS

After two long flights we arrived in Paris at 6.05am. We got a taxi to our hotel but we couldn't check in until 2pm so we left our bags and went to explore

We found a couple of markets. Here are some photos

After the markets we got on a double decker tour bus around Paris. Here are a few photos

Captain Maia

Hey Talya (Tayla)
Im goona tell you about the day i had at school today.

Today at school my Whanau had a fun afternoon cause we went out side and played heaps of fun games and we also did it in diffferent teams, and for the first time Whaea rose let me be a captain for a team.

We had three different games and three teams my team was called the sharks and we played soccer and then rippa rugby then after that we played stuck in the mud.

In soccer the captains werent allowed to play so they had to watch from the side line. My team lost 4-2 to the tigers but they said thet they had fun on that activity.

Ater that we played Rippa rugby i had 2 girls in my team that didnt like playing Rippa Rugby because they said its too hard and they and they also said every time someone passed to them they would always drop the ball so they didnt want to play so i got to take there places (YAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAAYYAYAYYAYAYYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYYYAYYAYAYAYYYAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAYYAYA)we won 3-1

And then there was the last one which was stuck in the mud which everyone wanted to play and that everyone love but I hurt my ankle so I had to stop playing half way into the game which sucked because I was having heaps of fun.


THANKS FOR READING MY POST I HOPE YOUR
 DAYS ARE AS FUN AS MINE :)



Love from
MAIA XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Our new dog Tess

We somehow managed to get ourselves a new dog ... didn't plan it but we wouldn't be without her now!

Billys Big post!

Hey Tailz.  I'm sorry I haven't been posting lately, well in ages but yeah I have just been forgetting to post.  So... where do I start ... Hmm oh yes I haven't told you about intensives thats right.

Okay so on Wednesday I had Chocolate lovers and it was very nice but sickening, we made heaps of chocolate and I ate a lot! I felt very sick after but I had a great day!!!!


On Thursday I had screen printing which was very fun and I enjoyed it a lot. I did quite a few peices of clothing in one day such as, a gray t-shirt hat I put in red the superman symbol on the chest, a red beanie that now says "bad hair day". whenever im wearing it everyone goes hmm bad hair day ay jaja. I also had more time on my hands so i had also brang my white northland cricket t-shirt which is an old one which i got from Josh last year i think, so I decided to screenprint on that also. I wrote in BIG purple letters on the back at the bottom 'BILLY' and it looks super cool. So I still had some time on my hands and i didnt have anything to print on but then I rememebered that I brang my helensteins jumper for mufti and so I printed the big federation symbol on the back in baby blue and it looks pretty awesome.


On friday the last day of intensives I had bushwacka and it was my birthday aswell but ill talk about my birthday after, I don't know how long it took to drive to the 'Bushwacka Experience' but atleast 20 minutes drive from Kamo Intermediate. So we arrive and we get a intro from the instructors and who they are and what we are going to do and learn today. Then we get into car groups and the intstructors drive us to where we are going to be all day, about 5 minutes of driving in the padocks and doing awesome driftys in cow poo we arrive at our spot, we get out of the trucks and put all of the kids bags under a big tree and go to see the eels not far away in a stream... about 10 minutes later us boys and girls get split up and the girls go for a big bush walk and also go though the crevices, while us boys learn how to absail properly. We have practices just roped to a gate like on flat ground then we go to a spot in the bush where its all set up for us, the rocks we were absailing down hmm was about 10 metres round about, well i can tell u that it was pretty scary. I went 3rd because we were doing alphabetic order, and i set my self up on the rock face lying down in mid air, and i noticed how wet and slippery the rock face is and how hard it is to walk down on a 180 degree angle :I it was very hard and challengine but yolo and afterwards it was quite enjoyable and it was a mighty challenge for me, well it was for most of us anyway. JAJAJA;). after everyone was finished we walked back to our camp :L. but the girls havent arrived back from thier walk yet so we get the grill set up for lunch while they are gone and when the arrive we're about to eat. sausages on bread with onions and tomato sauce hmm ideal lunch on my birthday huh ;) i had about 3 i think then i was pretty full anyway i had drank like my whole power rade in matter of seconds and had to go toilet heaps and i was quite full after even the powerrade. After lunch we have a bit of a run around playing soccer and there is a volley ball net set up so we have a couple games of volleyball. then we get instructed to go for a bush walk while the girls are absailing, we do a pretty big walk about 10-15 minute walk and then going thro the crevices. crevices if you dont know are like massive cracks in the ground normally from earthquakes or volcanos and man its sooooo cold down there like it was a really hot sunny day and when we go down into the crevice we can see our breath like we are smoking cigarettes. we climb/walk thro the crevices and fit through tight spaces. Walking on dampp wet leaves that have dropped from the trees because down in the crevices they dont get any sunlight rearly. We get to the end and the girls are there waiting for us at our campsite. then its time to pack up and go home.

BIRTHDAY!!! so awesome, i got the coolest prezzies. oh and thanks for the card u left me and also the facebook post u messaged to dad. i don't know if mum has told you about my phone but i'll just repeat it or tell you about it anyway. Well it didnt work when we got it so i could do everything an ipod could do, but i couldn't call or text anyway so we sent it back and emailed to say that its broken and needs fixing and they said something like okay we will send it to our tech people to have a look and fix it. I don't know how long but ages! still not fixed and last week they emailed us and said that it cant be fixed would we rather them source a new one and send it to us or get all our money back. mum emailed back 'source a new one please and this time check that it actually works and then send it please." and then couple days later they email and say, "it can't be fixed and do we want them to source a new one or get all our money back?". and then mum got annoyed and emailed back a angry message saying that ive been waiting for ages for my phone and that my son (me) is really upet and so am I" and stuff. and they emailed something well i don't exactly what they said but something to do that they have sourced a new iphone 3GS and it is getting sent to them as we speak. So annoying tho, i want my phone so badly ahhhhh.

School stuff: well whats been hapening lately umm. We have a social on wednesday (next week) cant wait for that and that day is also me and my Girlfriend Olivia's four month aniversary so hopefully she is going to the social. i love socials and i'm gonna have a blast :)

Cricket: I've played two games for city (club team) and we've won both so far :) we played Kamo then had a by then we played Northen Waiora and we smoked Northen wairoa easy peasy yesterday, i bowled REALLY WELL i bowled 3 overs so about 18 balls bowled and i got 3 people out maybe could of been 4 but naa and they only got 13 runs off me in that 3 overs so thats really goooood!!! But in batting I got what a Golden Duck that means i got out the first ball I faced when i went out onto the pitch. on labour weekend I got choosen for the Northland A team to play Counties Manakau on the sunday and on the Monday. we got hammered on the sunday, man they are so good well we just slacked around in the field and it didnt end well i can tell you that!!! Oh on the sunday it was just a practice game but on the monday it counted. On monday we played much better and i got 2 wickets that were VERY good and ill add some photos at the end of me playing and everyone high fiving me when i got a wicket. I batted 11th so the last batter and i came in on the second to last ball of the game and on sunday we didnt even last 20 overs and Carl our coach said that we have to bat the full 50 overs today. and so two balls to come and i was facing the bowler, he bowls me a widish ball that was easy to block and so I do so and get one run off it and so i'm not facing on the last ball. My mate jacob was and he safily hit it along the ground and we didnt run or win but we were proud and so was Carl.
Theres heaps more Northland games coming up. Mum just read a email she got out loud to me announcing the next Northland A team for the game against Western Districts next Sunday at Tikipunga. yay, it will be my fourth game playing for Northland A team. can't wait :):):)

I just got my Ipad screen fixed and in my new case:) it looks gooooood.

and here is some photos of me on labour day playing against Counties.

me fielding on monday

me getting my wicket 

me getting my wicket

 me making my hair look good ;)

Last night we had a barbeque down at Uncle Simon and Auntie Margies house and they just bought a caravan and they have it in the backyard. The All-Blacks played against Japan last night and won obviously but i forgot what the score was but i know we won. Georgia went to baby sit last night but came back in time for........ FIREWORKS!!! Ange and Deano from Parakura came and they have three children Max my age, Will 8yrs old and eva umm 4 i think I don't know. before fireworks we had a spa and jumped into the pool then spa then pool then spa... Etc. and it was so fun because then we played on the tramp for ages, then Ange went to get fireworks and got a big cardboard box of different fireworks. We started with some sparklers and then all us kids went onto the tramp while Uncle Simon and Deano set it up and got everything ready. it was awesome there were Heaps of different types of fireworks like ones that went up high as and exploded and there were ones that made the highest screeching noises, ones that were just ones that stayed low and looked like rain and it was awesome and ones that spun REALLY fast on the ground and looked like turbo things. then Deano gave all us kids some fireworks to do another night because it was getting a bit late and eva was really tired. and i got a pack of 6 fireworks that emit showers of sparks.


hope you like this post. I know its very long but yeah i can't stop typing jaja. have a great read ;) and have a great week :) cya tailz love you heaps. miss you like crazy :* :* :* :* :* xxxxx

-Billy :)