Sunday, July 20, 2008

Another Interesting Week: Week of July 12th, 2008

I’d been waiting for July 11th for a long time because I was going to my friend’s house. I got up early to go to my mom’s company’s cafeteria because she is allowed to bring a visitor once a month. I had heard stories about it from my mom. I expected it to have lots of tasty things inside. We ate chocolate muffins, bagels, Fanta, and a croissant. I also expected it to look like a normal building, but it looked more like a tropical hotel. Later that day, I went to my good friend's house in Cupertino. There, I swam and played with my friends for an hour and had a water battle. I had never done those things before. Then we played on her Thrillville off the Rails on her WII, played Apples to Apples Junior, and played Super Spy. That evening she came for a sleepover at my house. We built warships and battle robots out of legos. I have a lot of spare parts and I made stuff out of them just for entertainment. After we had dinner with my friends’ parents we watched the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks. I fell asleep a little after it started.

After mridanga class today (July 12th), I went hiking at the Rancho San Antonio Reserve with my friends and family. We walked for 1 mile and took a break. When we sat down for a break, we ate fruit-rollups, grapes, and muffins. We spotted some deer just before our break. We walked for 1.7 miles and then started on our way back. We saw some geese on the way back. My friend and I also pretended to be the Mystery Hunters from TV. We went down a trail that was not part of the hiking trail. We found a very clear river and a tortoise and it’s lair. On the way back home, we ate Kit-Kat bars, pizza, Pepsi, and to cap it up, ice cream @ Baskin Robbins.

Tuesday was my grandmother’s birthday. We were going to a really good restraunt we sometimes eat at called Saravana Bhavan. It is a terrific restaurant. We went there with my aunt, uncle, and cousins. Just before we left, we ate a small slice of chocolate cake. First, I had 15 mini idlis. I was starving, though. I wanted to eat a chana bathura. It was as wide as my stomach, but not as thick. I quickly finished it, and it was delicious. All in all, it was a great day.

On Wednesday, I saw a terrific movie called Journey To The Center Of The Earth, which is based on the Jules Verne novel. My grandmother, mother, sister and I went to a picnic in a park. We went to a picnic since my mom had taken the day off. We were going to watch Journey To The Center Of The Earth after our picnic. First, We ate some madurvade and chapatti. We played for a little while. My mom got me some ice cream after I ate my chapatti. It was delectable.

In Journey To The Center Of The Earth, a geologist named Trevor is losing his laboratory, and he is surprised to see his nephew Shawn when he visits from Canada. Shawn finds the fourth blip on Trevor’s world map because of a secret code found in his missing fathers copy of the Jules Verne novel, Journey To The Center Of The Earth. They go to a laboratory of a geologist whose name was in the secret code in Reykjavik, Iceland. The find out the geologist had died. They go with his daughter Hannah, a mountain guide. Just when Trevor finds what he was looking for, a lightning storm rolls in and lightning is attracted to the thing Trevor is holding. The lightning caused a cave in in the cave they were taking shelter in. They get to the center of the earth, and find an exit. On the way to the exit, they face giant, man-eating anglerfish, huge plesiosaurs, and finally, a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Shawn had gathered some diamonds while they were underground. They were blown out of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. They crash into a strawberry farm, but repay the owner with a diamond. Using the rest of the diamonds, Trevor buys a new laboratory.

I also saw another great movie called Kung Fu Panda a little while ago with my mom, grandmother & sister. In Kung Fu Panda, a panda who dreams of being a kung fu master named Po works in his father’s noodle shop. One day, his idols, the Furious Five, are finding who the legendary dragon warrior his. No one except Master Ugwe, the one who chose Po to be the dragon warrior, believes him to have what it takes to be a Kung Fu master. One day, however, the Furious Five disappear. They were secretly going to battle Tai Lung, an evil snow leopard. While they did that, Po learnt many skills. Finally, Po was able to defeat Tai Lung.

July 19th was my cousin Avinash’s second birthday. He had vanilla milk cake with Kung Fu Panda theme, strawberry and vanilla ice cream, and juice and soda. We stayed there 6 hours.

Tomorrow, might go hiking at Lake Elizabeth Park.

This week was a spectacular one. I’ve never experienced something like this and I hope that I will experience it again in the future.

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