Like the new layout? It's kind of nice and Springey, I think. ^.^

Speaking of Spring, it feels like we're far from it. For the past week or two, we've been getting heaps and heaps of snow. On one day I woke up and the roads were completely blanketed in it, but the school superintendent decided to be a lunkhead (I'm not sure if that's a term or not, but it seems fitting) and not delay OR cancel school. So I had to trudge through the dense sheet of powder, slipping and sliding on ice, to get to the bus stop. >:U

Once we got to school, all of the kids were outraged that school hadn't been canceled. We wrote very vicious acrostics for 'SNOW DAY' in English that certainly *cough* expressed our anger. Here's a typical example of one of the acrostics:

S- Superintendant is missing 90% of their brain

N- Now we're stuck at school

O- Only an insane creep would make us leave home in this weather

W- We don't want to be at school!

D- Dopes like the superintendent deserve a punch

A- Almost everyone here is angry

Y- You'd have to be a lunatic to like school after this

Really eloquent, huh? X3

After school, I went sledding on a gigantic slope that about 30-35 other kids were skidding down on their neon-colored plastic disk sleds. Here's roughly what it looked like:

The plum-colored slope represents the big hill that the majority of the kids were sliding down, and the thing that looks like a stick with rungs between that and the pink hill (aka the smaller slope) is the stairs.

The year prior, I'd been run over by two separate sleds at the same time on the plum-colored hill, so I mostly stuck to the smaller hill. But at the end, I went down the plum-colored hill by accident when I was trying to push my brother off of the precipice so that he would go down. I ended up clinging to the back of the disk sled and whooping my head off. XP

A few days later, the top coat of powder that we'd gone sledding on melted away. All of the water that was left froze up into a sheet of ice overnight, so our school got delayed. c:<

Not much has been going on lately, at all. :P It's nice and chilly out tonight, which should make for perfect Trick-Or-Treating weather. 

The sky's also really overcast and gloomy. ^ Last year (or was it the year before? o.o) it started drizzling the tiniest bit and all of the kids freaked out because the parents kept on calling it a 'large storm,' or something. But it never actually was a storm at all.

This year I'm going with my younger brother and 2 year old cousin, who is currently entertaining himself by watching annoying toddler videos about 'swimming in the swimming pool.' It's rather traumatizing to my ears. >.< *groans loudly*

I'm going as the Roman goddess of snow, Khione. I'm wearing a velvety blue dress with itchy silver embroidery and a trim that's feathery and soft. Here'r a few photos of it:

(For some reason, my weird natural highlights look sparkly in that photo o3o)

A few days ago, we also took my cousin Mason to the zoo. I'm not always the biggest fan of zoos, but this one was okay. ^.^

We went to see the small mammals, and one of them hopped back and forth in front of the glass as if posing. It was rather weird.

We also saw this mammal who was sleeping pressed against a rock. It doesn't sound very comfortable, but for some reason, he managed to stay balanced by pressing himself against the top!

A bit after I took that photo, the furry animal seemed to wake up a bit and started gnawing on the rock.

He also had a friend, who was perched on the ledge above him:

There were also these two mammals that looked like a mixture of a hamster and a rabbit, who were gnawing on hay.

After that, we took my cousin on the ferris wheel. He kept looking at the animals bobbing up and down as if they were alive!

Well, I should probably go: mom's calling me for dinner.

~Edwingrim2

Today's been sort of a lazy day, with me finishing up a bit of homework and watching a few episodes of Dr. Who, Series 6 (which turned out to be fantastic :D).

The Time of the Angels, the one that I'm on, is massively creepy. o.o Definitely fitting for Halloween.

The only other non-dull things happening are that two pumpkins are growing in my yard, and by now they're pretty enormous. Almost the size of my head by now! We think that they may be able to be harvested soon ^.^

We have this weird tradition of naming our pumpkins: the first one being Greg (obviously chosen by my brother), the second Squash (me being ironic), and the third is something like... Tom? I forget. :P

I also made a poster based on a book I read, Counting by 7s, for school. It took me eons to color everything in neatly. >.<

I THREE tests next week- one on Wednesday, one on Monday, and one on Friday. *groans loudly*

Adieu!

~Edwingrim2

More Trip Photos ^-^

 Gorgeous flower.

 My eye

 GECKO LICKING ICE CREAM <333

 Beautiful Hawaiian mountainside.

 Pearl.

 Pineappley vanilla dole whip!

 Tiki torches.

 Waves crashing on the rocks.

 Sea foam spray.

Feet in the tide pool c:

Hello!

I'm currently sitting on a wicker chair on the hotel balcony, eating a blueberry muffin while I type. :3

Today, we haven't really done anything yet, but I have the feeling that we're going to go down and swim soon.

Yesterday, we had a lovely breakfast with waffles, muffins, yummy fruits, and perfectly cooked turkey bacon. It was quite yummy.

After that, we went down to take a swim in the ocean. I swam out wwwwaaaaayyyy over my head into the middle of it, and climbed onto the floaty platform-thingy. It was really wobbly, but I could stand up on it without falling over.

I also took a few photos. Here's one of a gorgeous Hawaiian flower:

  <3

You never see flowers like that where I live! :c

After we went to the beach and swam, we came back up to the hotel room and were lazy for a bit.

Then we went back out to listen to some Hawaiian lore that a storyteller was talking about. There was something about a dog carrying a shell in it's mouth o.o Anyways, it was very interesting!
Then after that, we got yummmyyyyy shaved ice.

The people were like: "Hi, what flavor do you want?! :D"

I was like," Um, can I try iced tea? Is it good?"

And one of the people was like," Well, I like iced tea, but this is a very... um... acquired taste." Then they handed me a sampler in a cute little cup. Instead of tasting like iced tea, it just tasted like artificial flavoring. X3

 I eventually decided on mango (you can't see it in the photo, because it's on the other side), watermelon, and lemon lime. It was tasty!

After that, we went to go swimming in the lazy river and in the pool that overlooks the ocean, which hopefully I'll have a picture of up later today.
My brother kept on trying to push my dad's donut-floatie thing under the water jets, and I would be like: "Edwinggg! That isn't nice >:c" and push the floatie AWAY from the water jets.
After that, we ended up having a battle over who would steer the donut floatie by splashing eachother with water and tugging on it, and eventually I just told him that it was pointless and we collaborated.
You haven't known being best friends and worst enemies unless you have a sibling. XD

As I was walking by the place where we'd been listening to the story, I noticed that the sun looked particularly picturesque through the palm trees, so I took a photo.

^.^

Later, as it was getting dark, we went to a Hawaiian festival. They gave us a smooth mat that looked like it was made out of soft, fluffy straw and we spread it out on the ground, then sat down to watch the festival.

It was really interesting, especially when the band started singing Hawaiian songs- that was my favorite part. The lead singer had an AMAZING voice. c:
The were also these random hula dancers with flowers in their hair who were like," Come learn the hula!" So I tried doing the hula, and felt ridiculous. (Especially with my big, clunky camera around my neck.)

And that's basically the story of my entire day!

Ciao!

~Edwingrim2