Holywood Hullabaloo

On a Wednesday night I go mountain biking at Mabie Forest.  Our coach Dave shows bike skills and control. At the end we have a relay race around the tracks the coaches make around the forest. I always look forward to a Wednesday night!!!!!!!!  My dad says we have to plan our week around my cycling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I LOVE CYCLING!!!!!!!!

John

Me and dad went to the Solway Coast rally at the military range at Kirkcudbright.  There were lots of Subarus.  We stood at a jump where the cars were jumping high in front of us.  We saw a mitsibushi evo with a squashed boot, it looked like it had spun and hit a tree.  We were standing at the highest point and could see out into the sea and saw the windfarm.

by John Mattinson:-)

On the second last week of the holidays we all went to Carlisle and saw the new Planes 2 movie.  It was really good and after that mum and dad took me and Euan to Pizza Hut – yummy!!!!!!!!

John

The day after Edinburgh Zoo we visited the Falkirk Wheel.  it is 35metres high and is the place where the Forth and clyde Canal meets the Union canal.  10 hydraulic motors are needed to turn the wheel and 1.5kWh of electricity is used which is equivelant to boiling 8 kettles.  The picture at the end is the Scottish Kelpies

john

Edinburgh Zoo was a great day.  We got to see meerkats, different types of monkeys, penguins, zebras, pelicans, birds and the giant panda. The female panda wasnt there because she could be pregnant and the pandas sleep for 18 hours a day and eat a third of their body weight each day!!! WOW!!  After the Zoo we met Auntie Anne and Uncle Jon and went to Toby Carvery for tea, it was scrummy!!

John Mattinson :-)))

Diggerland was fantastic.  I got to drive a Shogun loads of times and a JCB and Euan had a great time too!!!!!!!

John

Birmingham library opened in 2013 and cost £188.8 million and is the largest public library in the UK.

John

Cadbury World was choccylicious. We got to go round the factory and on the day we were there, the machines were making fruit and nut.  I got lots of bars of chocolate on the way round and in one place everyone got pots of melted chocolate with different toppings, I picked honeycomb and popping candy. It was amazing!!!    There were films showing us how the chocoalte was made before all the big fancy machines.  Mr cadbury provided homes, healthcare and churches and schools for his workers.

John

On our way to Birmingham we stopped off at Manchester Airport viewing area for a picnic and saw all the planes landing and taking off.

John

Drayton Manor was spectacular. Me and my dad went on a ride called G-Force.. It was a ride you had to stand up on and there were two massive loops!!.. Euan and mum went to Thomas Land because Euan was a bit too small to go on the big rides.