I actually liked this little quiz better than some because you actually had to answer questions in order to complete it, rather than some quizzes where they just give you your answer right away.

Enjoy!

Your result for The Harry Potter Wand Test...

11", Holly, Unicorn

You scored 32 wisdom, 33 bravery, 21 emotional, and 28 martyrdom!

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Hi Guys,
I don’t know why I’m even writing now, because I don’t really have time. I guess I just wanted to see if I could write a quick spir of the moment entry, since my entries are usually long and written about a specific thing. I really should be getting something for breakfast and then starting on my studying for exams, but I’ll try and finish this first. We have today off for senior graduation, and exams start on Friday, so today is my big study day! What fun! Lol jk jk. Then of course I’ll be studying all weekend for my exams that are next week. The ironic thing is that I could probably get away with hardly any studying at all. I could actually get as low as a c on any of my exams and still get a’s for my semester grades, because I have a’s for both of my quarter grades. But of course, that’s not me, and I’ll be studying like crazy anyway. Junior year has been a crazy year with it’s ups and downs, but more on that later. I plan to write an entry reflecting back over the year once my exams are done. We’ll see if that really happens! I can’t believe I have two more days of classes, 5 exams, and I’ll be done! My last exam is a week from Thursday. Well, that’s all for now.

Yes, I'm still alive, and I haven't completely forgotten about lj!
I have know idea where to start, since I haven't written for ages, and my cousin is coming over any minute, so I really don't have much time, but I just thought I'd check in and say hi!
So, what's new?
I don't know,. School has been crazy busy this year. I never really believed people when they said that junior year was the hardest year, but now I do! Omg! Never-ending homework! It's had it's positives too though; I'm still in peace club (now called peace and social action club) and I still enjoy that for the most part. Gabe, the president wants to do everything good for the world he possibly can, so we have expanded beyond just promoting peace. Now we also promote environmental awareness, fair trade, and whatever else Gabe can think of! Lol! I'm starting the whole collige (dingdong)
My cousin's here! gtg!

Got this from princesskaitlyn and thought it looked like fun. I don't know if I've actually ever posted one of these thingies.
Expect some possibly boaring entries about summer trips soon. I'll put them behind cuts so you don't have to read if you don't want.


1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. Whats your philosophy on life?
11. Would you have my back in a fight?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. Would you give me a kidney?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
19. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. Would you drive across country with me?
22. Do you think I'm attractive?
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
26. Would you go on a date with me if i asked you?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you?

I am trying out tags for the first time, and this entry is a test to see if they work! However, any tips or anything else anyone wants to tell me about tags would be appreciated, especially tips from screen reader users, but anyone is welcome to share.
Well, since this entry is tagged with Harry Potter, I guess I should say something on that topic. So, I’ll say this, I Can’t Wait for the next book!!! Mom and I have preordered the book and the audio cd.

Can you believe I’ve been using lj for as long as I have, and I’m just getting around to trying out tags?
Well, that’s all for now.
Expect a vary long and probably boaring entry about my trip to Florida to appear some time in the near future. Don’t worry, I’ll put it behind a cut.

Hi Everyone,
I know this is kind of a basic lj question, but I still don’t know what the answer is.
So, if I join a community and choose to have the communities entries show up on my friends page, then will other community members be able to see friends only posts that I make in my personal journal?
I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, if someone could please help me with the answer, that would be great!!

Your Nail Polish Color is Purple

How you're unique: You are artistic and expressive   Why your style rocks: You pay special attention to color and fabrics   What this color says about you: "I'm creative and know how to take care of myself"

How did it pick my favorite color!!

This poem was emailed to me a while ago by my vision teacher, and I just got the idea to post it here. I thought maybe some of you would get a kick out of it.
It's a Dr. Seus stile poem about computer troubles! I know most of us have experienced those at some time!

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is
interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes
your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the
double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is
corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's
hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the
network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets
want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the
printer down the hall......
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so
your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well
reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.
When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the
macro code instructions cause unwanted risk, then you'll have to flash
the BIOS and you'll want to RAM your ROM, just quickly turn the darn
thing off and run to tell your Mom!

Hi, I know I should really write something worth reading, but this is not it. This is just a test so everyone ignore this ok?

Well, I'm on spring break now, and I'm kind of feeling motivated to write in here again. Can you believe it? I'm not really sure where to start though, so I think I will start with this fun little quiz thingy.


Well, I think that's all I will write for now. Going to Chicago on Friday to visit my cousin. Should be fun. Maybe I'll write about it if you're lucky.

 

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
sarahb91 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as black cat.
caitlin45 tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
doodgeman gives you 4 orange evil-flavoured nuggets.
kolbygarrison tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
lilrachyface tricks you! You get an eraser.
princesskaitlyn tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
sapphiresilver gives you 13 white licorice-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
silly_singer tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
snowdaysroq gives you 11 softly glowing spearmint-flavoured wafers.
sarahb91 ends up with 26 pieces of candy, a toothbrush, an eraser, and a scratched CD.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Omg why did practicly everyone trick me! Thanks Caitlin h for the toothbrush and Caitlin m for that broken cd. You guys are sooo generous! At least Olivia and a couple of other people actually gave me something nice. Well, one of these days I’ll actually write a real entry. I just got back from a family reunion that was lots of fun maybe I’ll write about it, but right now I have to get back to my nsl project. Grrrr. At least I’m posting a couple of meme thingies now. That’s better than nothing right? More later.

Hi
I just thought I'd post this so you would know I am still around. people,

	Sarah needs a new heart
	Sarah is going to see the Wizard about it on Thursday
'What will your Headline be?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Here’s a journal entry I started writing about 2 weeks abo after all my summer trips were over. I was planning to write about all of them, but I didn’t finish. Then today, I opened the file to finish it, and I realized that part of what I had written had not been saved. I had already writen about my trip to cape cod and my volinteer work, but that stuff didn’t save. I don’t think I’ll finish it now, so you’ll just have to be satisfyed with a half finished entry about my summer. Hey, it’s my journal and I can do what I want. Lol! Well, school starts tomorrow (sigh of resignation). I guess I’m kind of looking forward to meeting my teachers and seeing who is in my classes, but I’m not looking forward to the early mornings and the homework. I had a great summer though, and I think I went on more trips than I ever have over a summer break.

Summer vacations half finished entry written about two weeks ago.
Hi people!
Well, so much for those entries about the rest of my summer vacations. Lol! I brought my bn to all of them but never wrote anything down. I'm not going to sit here and write about all of it now because it would boar me, the writer and you, the reader to death. They were all extreemly fun, but to just sit hear and write about it would be boaring. So, I’ll just give a verry brief overview.
In mid July Mom and rick and I went to Chincoteague Verginia for a long weekend which was fun. We went to the beach a couple of times, took some walks and saw a lot of wild life. We did a wheelchair accessable not walk to see the lighthouse on Assituge island. The sign said it was accessable, but it was far from it. The path was all bumpy and Rick had the hardest time pushing me. Luckally it wasn’t verry long, and we did make it to the lighthouse. We also went on a wild life loop that was paved and verry nice. We saw some bunnies that actually let us get close enough so I could see them. Another verry cute thing we saw were ducks marching in a line. Our hotell was on the water and there was a peer wih picknic tables where you could go and eat. So one evening we got carryout pizza and ate it there and this long line of at least 30 ducks martched own the peer right past our table. Then they all jumped in the water one at a time. Not all at once or in groups, but one at a time. It was sooo cute. Mom and Rick also saw some of the wild ponies, but they were too far away for me to see. Well, I couldn’t see the ones that were actually in the wild, but there were some that were penned up that you could pet and feed corn, so I could see those

Sorry about the bad spelling in this entry, something is wrong with this version of Microsoft word and the spell check doesn’t work.

Monday July 3, 2006

Well, we got back from out west yesterday evening. The trip was busy but good. On Wednesday we flew to Vancouver and rented a car. Then we had to take a ferry to Vancouver island. It was a big ferry that could hold cars and stuff. It had a cafeteria like thing, a little coffee place, a play area for kids, arcade games, and even a little giftshop, in addition to rows of chairs and places where people could plug in their lap tops. It also had multiple bathrooms, or as they say in Canada, washrooms, each one with multiple stalls. It looked like a bathroom you would find at a mall or something, not a boat. KAYTLIN M is probably going, "well duh," right about now, because I bet she's ridden the ferry lots and is used to all this stuff, but I was kind of surprised. Well, maybe I'm just easily impressed. Lol! So anyway, it was really windy and kind of cold on the ferry. I spent some time on the upper deck (which is outside) with mom and Dad, but then we got too wind blown and cold so Mom and I went down below. One funny thing that happened while we were still on the top deck, was when I decided to go up to the front of the boat with Dad. He had gone up by himself and then came and asked me if I wanted to go. So I went with him. We were walking into the wind and it was so windy that I could hardly walk. So Dad kind of had to push me along. It was funny, because since he was pushing me, it felt like he was forcing me to go, but I wanted to go, He and was just making it easier for me to move forward. Lol! When we got to the island we were rather exosted. I lay down for a few and then we went out to eat at a restaurant on the water. I got fish and chips. Thursday morning we went to the doctor and finished in time to go out for lunch. So we went to another restaurant on the water (that's the only kind mom wanted to go to) and I had shrimp. Then we got ice cream and walked around on the water front. Mom and I poked in to a couple of shops and I got an orka whale key chain. Did you know Orka whales and killer whales are the same thing. I think the native Americans called them orkas, and then we came along and started calling them killer whales. I'm not exactly sure why; have to resurch that. Well, I like orka better, so from now on that's what I'm calling them. Anyway, getting back to what we did, we walked around a ton, and went down to this little beachy area where Mom and I put our feet in the water. The water was kind of cool though and there were lots of slippery rocks, which were vary annoying, so we didn't last long. For dinner we ended up going to the same place we went the night before. Friday morning we went to see the doctor again and then headed to meet KAYTLIN M. in a little town about half way between where we were staying and where she lived. It was lots of fun and rather amazing how it worked out that we happened to be traveling to a place so close o where she lived, and so soon after I met her. I also met her Dad and half sister, and 2 other kids who are her Dad's girl friend's kids. So, anyway, it was great meeting you Kaitlin, and I hope I see you again some day. After our wonderful lunch, Kaytlin and I said good by and Mom and I drove back to near where our ferry was leaving from. We stopped so I could get a root beer float which was yummy. Now don't laugh at me, but I had never had one of those before. Then after a short little walk around a pond or something, we got back on the ferry to the mainland. We ate dinner on the ferry, and did other stuff, but I can't remember what. Then we drove out of Canada and into washington to my aunt and uncles house in Seattle. It was pretty late by the time we got there, so we pretty much just said hi, to Kate and Elliot and Claire, ooed and awed over their new baby Marcus who was asleep and very adorable and went to bed. On Saturday morning we just hung out, and I played with Claire who is about 2 and a half and also very adorable. We brought presents for her and Marcus and little Claire found them all by herself in Mom's suit case. We were all sitting around finishing up breakfast when we realized we hadn't heard or scene Claire for a few minutes. Then she came out holding a fairy crown and wand (the presents we had brought for her) and looking very pleased with herself. So someone went to investigate and found that she had taken all four presents out of Mom's suit case and unwrapped all of them, but somehow she knew that the fairy things were for her, rather than the baby blanket and rattle. Very cute! I figure Marcus is still too young to enjoy opening presents anyway, so Claire might as well have fun doing it for him. So anyway, after hanging out for a while, Dad and Elliot and Claire and I went out on their motor boat while Mom and Kate stayed at the house with Marcus and chatted. We motored around and looked at the houseboats. Claire and I also had fun trying to get splashed sitting in the bow (front) of the boat. Then we went back to the house, had lunch, and hung out for a little bit. Then we went to the flee market where we met up with my cousin Andy. Who had flown into Seattle to meet up with The Big Green Bus. This is a school bus that a bunch of kids from Dartmouth college, where he graduated from in the spring, painted green and converted to run on used vegtable oil. Now they are touring around the country trying to teach people about sustainable fuel. Something that sceems pretty important in this day and age dispite what our president sceems to think. So yay for Andy and the Big Green Bus! Then we went back to Kate and Elliot's house and had dinner and cake. THEN we left bright and early Sunday morning.
Ok, well I know this trip was like almost a month again and I should have posted this ages aco. Can we say lazy? I've still got the trip Mom and Rick and I took to write about, and we're going away again tomorrow. Mom and I are going to Cape Cod to see grandma and Grandpa.
Well that's all for now.

Hi
Hi Everyone,
This is just a really short entry to let everyone know that I'm heare and I'm still alive. Expect an entry about our trip to Vancouver and stuff in about a week. We actually got back a week before yesterday (on july 2). but I haven't posted antry since because first I was lazy and then we started having computer trouble. The computer problims are getting worked out, but Mom and Rick and I are going out of town on Wednesday and I won't be able to post before me. It's too complicated to explain. So I should be back in about a week. Bye untill then.
Sarah

First of all, Happy birthday to my new cousin, Marcus who was born yesterday, June 24th, at 11:45 pm pacific time! I guess you call that a birthday right? Well at any rate, welcome into the world Marcus! I can’t wait to see you. I’m actually really lucky because I will get to see him next weekend. We’re stopping by Kate and Eliott’s house in Seattle on our way home from Canada. So Mom and I will get to be the first relatives from Kate’s side of the family to get to meet him. We didn’t plan it like that or anything, it just worked out. So I am really looking forward to that. I’m looking forward to seeing all of them actually. My other cousin Claire who is now a big sister will probably be needing lots of attention which I will gladly give her. She may even come and sleep with me at night. That could make sleeping hard, but what the heck, it’s just 2 nights and since they live live so far away I don’t get to spend much time with her. She’s only 2 and a half and very cute. According to Kate she keeps talking about all these things she wants to show me. Aww. Sounds like I’ll be a busy cousin on Sunday. I guess she’s looking forward to seeing her big cousin Sarah. Well, I’ll be sure to write all about it on the plain ride home.

I also wanted to say happy birthday to my grandpa who’s birthday is today, and an early happy birthday to Mom!!
Her birthday is tomorrow but since I probably won’t be writing another entry tomorrow, I’ll wish her a happy birthday a day early. We’re kind of celebrating her birthday to day anyway, because she has to work all day tomorrow. Last night she and Rick and I went out for crabswhich we all really enjoyed. I had actually had crabs last Monday, but Mom and Rick hadn’t had them for a while. They were yummy like always and we got a table right on the waterwhich was great! Then today, we just got back from getting our nails done. I had never been before and so we just decided to go as a girly treet for her birthday. It was cool. They fixed my cuticles and massaged my hands and stuff. I got bright pink polish that’s shimmery. It looks really good right now. The trick is getting it to last. Well, that’s all for now. So happy birthday Mommy! I love you and I hope you enjoy your special day.

So here’s an entry that I wrote about Memorial Day weekend and the week before that. I know that was a long time ago, and I don’t know why I didn’t post it sooner. I guess I just got busy with end of the year stuff, but I did take the time to write it and I don’t really want to delete it so here it is.

Hi Everyone,

How is everyone doing? I’m doing pretty well; glad that school’s almost over but not looking forward to exams. Lol! Who does? I don’t have any more 5 day weeks left though which is cool or something.
I had a really stellar week this past week. See, there are these tests that kids in Maryland have to take in highschool, but they’re only for 4 particular classes, algebra, biology, tenth grade history and tenth grade English (all classes that everyone ends up taking at some point). The tests were given one a morning for 4 mornings, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and you went in for the ones you had to take. Classes were just in the afternoon. I don’t have any of those 4 classes this year so I got to come in at 11:30 all four of those days. Actually, I just skipped Thursday altogether because the three classes I would have had were resource, Math which is really easy for me this year and resource again. So, I got a day off! Yay for me or something. On that Thursday, I just chilled out in the morning and then Mom and I went to this drum circle thing. It was organized by one of the vision teachers in the vision program here. It’s kind of hard to explain, but bacicly everyone sits in a circle and we all have some kind of percussion instrument. There’s a man leading it who stands in the middle and gives us a beet. Sometimes he has us all follow his beet exactly, and sometimes he lets us do our own thing and improvise on his beet. It’s lots of fun.
Friday was a normal day, bright and early, but that was fine because it was my first one all week. Then not long after I got home Dad came to get me and take me to Annapolis because he and Diane and I were going on our first overnight Cruz in Red Rover, our relatively new sailboat, over the 3 day weekend. We stayed in Annapolis Friday evening. Dad did some things to get the boat ready and we went out for dinner at an Italian restaurant. Then Dad and Dianne left the dock before I was even up, but the sound of the motor woke me up and I got up shortly after. We had Doughnuts and baygles and stuff like that for breakfast. Shortly after breakfast we motored (or were we sailing by then?) by Bloody Point Light. A new lighthouse to add to my list! That was cool. It’s an old lighthouse that’s not kept up very well. In fact, it’s falling over! I don’t exactly remember all we did. Just hung out and enjoyed the sail and had lunch somewhere in there. Then when we got to St. Michael’s we were all tired so we just rested and I listened to my book on tape. I know, it sounds weird being tired after not doing much all day but relaxing on the boat but it happens. Well, actually Dad doesn’t do much relaxing and he was the tired one. He’s always hopping around doing this and that. Then we went out to dinner at this fancy restaurant for Dad’s birthday which was the next day (Sunday). It was a 4 course meal, but I didn’t have all 4 because there was absolutely no way I could eat all that food and the waitress said they could do something different for me. It was fun though being at such a fancy restaurant and the food was really good too. I had a crab cake which was yummy. The dessert was great too; a very rich chocolate cake.

Sunday
Dad’s Birthday!! So happy belated birthday to dad! Of course I wished him happy birthday on Sunday morning, but I just had to do it here on livejournal.
Dianne made breakfast and then we wade anchor and headed to the Rogue river. It was a rather hot day and when we got there we were all dyeing of heat. Dianne, the smart one, brought her bathing suit so she put it on and jumped right in. I decided that I didn’t care if I had a suit or not and just went in in a pare of shorts and a t-shirt. I can’t swim that well so I just sat on the lower rung of the swim ladder with the lower half of my body in the water. It was still very cool and refreshing though. After seeing what a good time Dianne and I were having, Dad came in too in his shorts. After we had cooled off, we got out and started making dinner. Dianne and I did most of it since it was Dad’s birthday. We made grilled shrimp with butter and old bay, and seaweed salad and couscous. Yummy! I love anything with old bay!!

Monday
We sailed back from the Rogue river to Annapolis. It was extremely hot and there wasn’t much wind so we had to motor a lot, but it was ok. We sailed by Tommis Point light, a lighthouse that I’ve seen many times before, but it was fun to see it again.

Now jumping to today, June 15.
So, I finished school on Monday! Yay! Exams were the end of the week last week and Monday and Tuesday of this week. I didn’t have an exam on Tuesday though so I was finished on Monday. Yay! They went ok, I think English was my least favorite. Too much writing. A multi paragraph essay and then two short essays, plus 45 multiple choice and a tun of reading. Blah. The whole thing took me longer than 4 hours to finish. Everyone else is supposed to finish in 2 hours, and I just don’t see how they can be expected to do that. I hope I did ok, especially on English and history. I’m the most worried about those, but let’s not dwell on that because there done now and I did the best I could. Now it’s time to enjoy the summer!! So on Tuesday we went to brookside gardens and hung out. Mom’s good friend Patty was in town from Vermont was visiting, she came Thursday night and left Tuesday evening. We went on the Carousel, which was fun. I know I’m probably a little old for that, but I still enjoyed it! You think that’s weird though, wait till you hear this, Mom and Patty went on too, and they didn’t just stand there, they actually rode horses. So I guess we’re all weird. Yay for weirdness or something! Then we went and had lunch by a little pond. We had Canadian geese staring at us the whole time. They knew we had food and they wanted some. Lol! We didn’t give them any though. After lunch we walked around and looked at flowers. Then we got hot so we left and went to starbux to get something yummy and cold to drink on our way to dropping Patty off at the airport.

Yesterday started out kind of blah. I woke up with my stomach hurting pretty badly and I was afraid that I had gottin the bug Mom had. When she had it, it lasted for a week, so I was like “great, this is just what I want right when school gets out and I’m supposed to be having fun”. So I desperately drank some ginger tea and some other junk (don’t remember what it was called) and I actually got better. By the end of the day I felt pretty much like my normal self. I don’t think it was what Mom had after all. It kind of put a damper on my day though.
Today I’m just hanging out, and Mom and I might go to the mall later this afternoon. Then tomorrow we’re going to go to the pool for the first time this summer! We were going to go yesterday, but because of my not feeling well and because it never got that warm, we didn’t go, but as long as the weather cooperates we’re going tomorrow! Then this weekend Dad and I are going to a family reunion in Matthew’s Virginia. It’s kind of near Virginia beach, but not really. Then in a couple of weeks Mom, Dad and I are all going to Canada and hopefully I will get to meet Kaitlyn princesskaitlyn which will be fun. I met her that week before Memorial day, but somehow it didn’t make it into my entry. I imed her for the first time on Monday afternoon and we exchanged phone numbers and then she called me Tuesday evening! So yeah! It’s been fun getting to know her. For anyone who cares, there is a Robin singing outside my window. He sounds so happy! I’m trying to learn bird songs and he’s one of the few I’ve managed to memorize. I like Robins. Ok, I’ve never met one and said “how do you do” or anything, but they just sound so happy. Lols!! I’m glad schools out and I’m getting hyper! So I will go and post this now!
Adios!

This is my seccond birthday shout-out and it goes to someone I just met Monday night online and talked to last night. She is caitlin M!! So happy birthday Caitlin! I hope you had a great birthday. I hope you got to do something fun besides school, since I know that's not very fun. It was great talking to you last night. I really enjoyed it. You seem like a cool person to get to know. Well" have a sooper birthday and I hope to talk to you soon.
xox
Sarah

So far it's been a pretty good spring break. My trip to Florida was lots of fun. We had a 1 bedroom apartment in a motel that was a short walk from the beach and we went to the beach every day! Dad and I also got to meet Dianne's Dad which was interesting. He often came to the beach with us and we had dinner with him almost every night. The first day,, Sunday, Dianne went out for breakfast with her Dad and brother, who also lives in Florida, while I slept in. Then Dad and I met them at the beach. He and I built a sand castle. We didn't have any buckets, since we had come on the plain, so we just did it with our hands, but it turned out really well. It had two layers, and dad made lots of designs by dribbling wet sand. Then we made a mote that went about half way around it. After we left the beach we went to the store and then back to the motel where we made dinner. We had shrimp with oldbay on them. Yum!! After dinner Dad started playing with this little video camera that Dianne had bought just before the trip. We have some very weird video from that night, including Dianne refusing to dance to Jaxon 5 putting her hands in front of the camera, hiding, and putting a towel over her head. She loves the abc song and always dances to it. I have it on my Ipod, and while Dad had the Camera I put it on. I figured she would dance like she always does and we would get it on camera which would be cool, but she didn't so now I have to write about it. That was our deal, if she refused to dance, I was going to write about it in here and then all my lj friends would know. After a while Dad and I gave up and we all took a moonlit walk down to the beach. I saw a flashing light across the water and said "Oh look, there's a lighthouse", but Dad told me it was just a bowie marking a little sand bar. However, while on one of his early morning walks the next day or the day after, I don't remember which, he realized that I was right, and that it was a lighthouse when the sun reflected off the tall white tower. Then on the second day we went to an aquarium. They had lots of live things that you could touch which I enjoyed. They had conks, a Sea urchin, horseshoe crab and a clam that apparently squirted at me when I picked it up, but I didn't see it. Then in another tank they had sting rays with their stingers removed swimming around that you could touch when they swam by. They felt silky, or slimy depending on how you want to think of it. We also saw sharks, turtles and manatees. The manatees were the whole reason we went to the aquarium in the first place. As Dianne says, they look like "big floating potatoes" They are very big and fat and friendly. Sometimes in the wild they get hit by motorboats because they're so friendly and they just don't bother to move out of the way. It is believed that the legend of the mermaid came from manatees, because apparently from a distance they look kind of like people. Of course they don't look anything like people when you see them up close. They are vegetarian and in the aquarium they were munching on big heads of lettuce. Then on the way home we stopped at a different beach for a little while. We didn't make any sand castles or anything that time. We just did random stuff, including wading in the water and collecting shells. I don't really remember everything. On Tuesday we went to the beach by the motel again and Dianne's Dad came with us. Dad and I attempted to fly a kite that we bought, but it was a light air kite, and there was lots of wind so it didn't work. We also did other stuff, like walking along the beach and running in the water again. On Wednesday, our final day, we walked to a bakery and then to the beach where we had breakfast. You know like the traditional doughnuts and coffee on the beach, but only Dianne had coffee, and and I was the only person who had anything like a doughnut. Since it was a bakery and not a doughnut shop, they only had one or two kinds of doughnuts and lots of other things like scones and muffins. So I had their doughnut, which wasn't even that much like a real doughnut but still pretty good, and Dad and Dianne had scones. We watched some people fishing. One guy was net fishing for little minnows that his friend would then use for bate ketch larger fish. One time after the guy who was net fishing had caught a net full, we went to watch him dump them into his bucket. I got to see them up close and hold one which was kind of interesting. Then we dug a hole to water near the waters edge which we expanded into a a pool big enough for me to sit in. Dad made dribble towers of all different shapes all around the pool. They're his specialty. Then we had lunch on the beach and after lunch I sat at in the water just at the water's edge and collected a few shells. By then the tide had gone out and our pool had dried up. Then, sadly it was time to go. So we went back to the motel, packed everything up, and drove to the airport. Overall, it was a great trip. Meeting Dianne's dad was nice, although you get tired of him after a while because he talks and talks and talks. To make things harder, he can hardly hear anything, and so it's very hard to have a conversation, which is why he just goes on talking. He tells storey after storey, and begins every few sentences with "I want to tell you something" or "let me tell you something". So, most of the time he was on the beach with us, poor Dianne had to sit on the sand with him hearing the same stories she's heard before, while Dad and I are off playing. He's a nice guy though and he means well. He knows he talks a lot, and he even apologized about it, but it's hard.
On thursday, I just hung out at home, read my email and lj and stuff, and researched the lighthouse I saw flashing. As you may or may not know, I am very interested in lighthouses. I can't really explain why, because I don't really know myself, but I just am. It is called Egmont Key Light on Egmont Key in Tampa Bay, about three miles north of the beach where I saw it from. We were on Anna Maria Island. So I was glad to find out the name and some information about it. Then Thursday evening, Mom and I went to a seder at Ricks house. His three kids, his mother, his nephew, and his sister in law who is his nephew's mother were all there. It was pretty fun. My favorite food was the matzaball soup. It was sooo good. We also had little hens, and asparagus. Mom made a really yummy desert. It was sponge cake with whipped cream and raspberries in the middle and on top. Yum!
On Friday Marie came over in the afternoon and we died easter eggs. I love doing that. Sometimes I wonder if I'm too old, but I guess I'm not because Mom still enjoys it too. We got two kits, the normal kind with the tablets that you put in water and vinegar and then dip the eggs in, and another one where the die was already liquid and you sponged it on. So we had some fun with that. Then around 5 Dad came and got me and we went to Annapolis where we spent the night on the boat for the first time! We had carry out in the cockpit and then I just hung out while Dad worked and Dianne alternated between hanging out and helping Dad. I won't really try to explain what he did, because I hardly understand it myself. I'll just say that it had to do with cleaning out the water tanks so we could fill them up with fresh water. Then we all went to bed. I slept in the v birth like I said I would. I had Mom's sleeping bag, and it was pretty comfortable. The birth is meant for two people, so I have plenty of space. In the morning Dad made pancakes for dinner. You would think that people would fix easy meals while on a boat. Not us! Lol. So we had Dad's yummy pancakes in the cockpit, and I was burning hot because I had wool pajamas on. Then after breakfast, we went for our first sail. We sailed to Tommis Point light and back. It was rather windy while we were sailing there, and we made it in record time. I couldn't believe how fast it ". Coming back was a little slower, because the wind started changing direction and dying on us. Overall, Red Rover's maiden voyage was a very successful one. It was good to get out sailing again, after a winter of no sailing.
Easter Sunday I was with Mom again. Dad stopped by in the morning and we did easter stuff, and then in the afternoon Mom and Rick and I went over to Marie and Roger's for easter dinner. We had ham and rice and other stuff. I had sorbet for desert.

I met two new people on lj over the past few days, which I am happy about. The first one is Kolby kolbygarrison and Rachel lilrachyface I talked to Kolby online on Thursday which was fun. So, thank you both for emailing me, and I look forward to reading your journals and talking to you more on line.
Now it's Monday evening and I have to go back to school tomorrow. Blah. Ohwell, at least it's a 4 day week.
More later.
Ps. This entry was written over the course of a few days.