Mountain Biking - Bruce

I've done two rides this week. The first with Cathy, Zak and Emma at Woodhill and the second with my brothers David, Peter and Mark at Rotorua.

Both were notable for different reasons. The Woodhill ride I rode with Emma while Cathy and Zak took off ahead to do some extra bits. Em crashed... See her blog entry... I saw it coming about a split second before it happened but too late to do anything about it. She was good about it though and continued on with a good attitude after dusting off.

The Rotorua ride's most prominent memory is of how exhausted I was. I was kinda expecting that because I've ridden so little lately. Before I completely ran out of go, it was a great ride though. I haven't ridden there for ages and forgot what sort of trails they have. Unlike the sandy surface at Woodhill, Rotorua's trails are hard and fast and very twisty. There is also a lot more climb than at Woodhill which means a lot more good downhill too. No one crashed and everyone was very happy to get back into town for a big feed.

Mountain Biking - Emma

At Woodhill Forest, we were mountain biking down Spaghetti (a trail). I saw a three X sign. Dad had told me that it meant the structure was difficult and it was best to avoid them. It was a ramp so I said "Is that a ramp?". And before I knew it I crashed into it. I was covered in dirt. I felt like I was eating dirt. Then I thought "Is that dirt on my tongue?" and I was right. Dad squirted me with the water bottle and I had a couple of drinks to rinse out the dirt.

Around the end of the trail we saw Mum and Zak. There was a see-saw and three small ramps. At first I wasn't sure about the see-saw but then I thought it would be fun to try. So I rode it and it went a bit wonky at the end but it was fun.


When we left Woodhill we went to a bakery. I had a little mince pie and an apple turnover. I squirted lots of tomato sauce on the little mince pie and it was very nice. The apple turnover was delicious but I wondered why the pastry was yellow inside. Zak couldn't eat all of his cream bun so I tried some but the bun wasn't very nice or fresh.

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Location:Woodhill Forest

Christmas

Hi everybody, we had a great christmas and have been having lots of fun playing with the presents we got. We have done the usual routine with breakfast at our house, lunch at grandmas then dinner at nana 2's but because she is in hospital she only stayed for a while. Some of favourite my things I got were lego harry potter the game 1-4 years, a nerf gun long strike and a new bike the 2011 model of my old bike, the GT stomper. Soon after we went to woodhill forest and went mountain biking. The bike worked well and it's much easier to ride.

Best wishes for 2011!

from Zak

Snowflakes

Snowflakes fall from the sky

Like a mountain rising high.

They are crisp, they are small,

They turn into a snowball.

By Emma Benson

A poem by me

This is a poem that I made last night about....

Fireworks

Orange and red blue and white

make the starless night alight.

Sparkle, crackle, fizzle, pops.

See which fireworks are the tops.

They go flying through the air

then BANG sparks go everywhere.

I shall watch them in delight.

fireworks on Guy Fawkes night.

Zak Benson

Horse riding

On Saturday I went horse riding with Mum, Ruby and Jane.

My horse was called Lenora. She was brown. She was bigger than Ruby's horse but she was smaller than Mum's horse.

While I was riding with Ruby I saw Mum fly 5 meters away from her horse landing with a plonk! When we met up with them again she was crying and she had moved from Jake to Annie. They were both brown but Annie had a white stripe on her forehead.

We took a couple of photos of us on the horses then we had cheese sandwiches for lunch. My favourite!

Mum hurt her left shoulder when she landed.It hurt badly but it's not broken.

I had a brilliant day.By Emma.

Armageddon

On Saturday Dad and I went to Armageddon and my friends Alex and Matthew came too. There was lots of cool stuff to see and buy. There was an EB games store there and places were you could play new games and the best thing there was a SWORD SHOP!!!!!! The swords (and other weapons) were from games, movies and TV shows. At the end there was a little shop where Matt and Alex brought some Halo 3 Mega Blocks figures and I brought two Lego mini figure packs.

It was loads of fun!!!

from Zak