Family and Movie Time

Family time and Movie time!!!

I love family time. For me family time is hanging out with your family, and doing something together! It might be different for other people. What I did on the holiday was mostly hanging out with my family. Everyday for 5 days I hiked up mountains with my family. It might not seem like the talky family time, but we were doing something together! I really enjoyed it. You got to know ever more about the people that you love! We hiked everyday for 4-8 hours!!! It's exhausting, especially when you go steep upwards like everyday!!! The good thing is that I keep in shape, and improves my stamina, and you get to see a great view of the mountains. The sight is just marvelous!!! You wouldn't bare looking away!

Something else I did on the holiday was go to the movies. Out of all the movies that I watched "Avatar" was my favorite! The story was great, and the actors were outstanding! Avatar is the first movie to have animated characters, and real characters. Avatar made 1 million us dollars in 7 days! It cost 400 million us dollars to produce Avatar. But I guess the money's worth the success! Avatar was the number 1 movie on the us movie charts! Incredible! The reason I liked Avatar the best, was because the story is very cool! And it's not so violent. Avatar's technology in the film was based on the future. I find it amazing how they can make so many new gadgets when they haven't even been sold yet! Doesn't that ever wonder you, why there are so many cooler things in the movies than you have?

Christmas Holiday!

12, January 2010

For my new year holiday I went to Nepal. It was so much fun and at the same time exhausting! We went hiking, but the first couple of days we spent in Kathmandu. We strolled around in the street's and bought a lot of cool stuff. Mostly my parents bought things. But I bought a necklace,shoes, and a shirt.

The best day was probably staying all night to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately we didn't achieve our goal. We were already exhausted from our hike. What we did to stay awake was, that we bought a lot of junk food, like chips, oreo's, biscuits, and for drinks my parents bought wine, and we bought coke,mountain dew. I know it's totally unhealthy food, but you have to try to stay awake, and my parents made an exception. Actually it was their idea!
We stayed up till about 11pm, my brother went first to bed, and then I did. I'm not sure what my parents did since they have a different hotel room. My brother and I stayed awake till 11:45 reading. Then we both fell asleep forgetting to turn of the light. The next morning we took a bike tour, and road around the city. We went to the Devi Fall's, it's an under ground water fall. I have to admit it was pretty school.

We were in Nepal, so for New Years they had a strike. A strike was when there were no cars, or motorbikes allowed to drive. Bicycles were allowed which I think is good. It's a good idea to have a strike, because there's so much traffic in Nepal so you wouldn't get anywhere. The hard thing is that if you want to visit relatives and they live far away it might be hard to visit them. At night they had filled the city with lights. It was magically beautiful! Nearly all the restaurants were crowded with people, and some of them even had a special New Years dinner! We ate Pizza, it was truly delicious! I'm guessing it was an Italian. Because no one makes such good pizza in Jakarta! I wish you all a Happy New Year, and have a great new start with a new decade! 2010 here we come!

Happy New year 2010!!!

Happy new year 2010!!! It's a new decade!!!

Today we went on a bike tour, we went to the Devi Falls. The Devi falls is an under ground water fall. Right now you'll probably think how we saw it, am I right??? We went into a cave which led to the water fall. So that's how we saw it! After that our parents went to a mountain museum. And we stayed in the hotel room reading/resting. After that we went to buy some shoes, because they were cheaper there. Happy new year everyone!!!

6th day of Hiking!

Today is the last day of hiking. It was easy, you only went down wards. But it was slippery, because the horses/donkeys went the same way as us, and pooed all over the place! When we arrived at our car we found out it was a 1 1/2 hour drive to our hotel! Finally we arrived and then went straight to dinner. We had the best pizza ever! After dinner we went to the store, and bought many UN-healthy things, because we were going to celebrate new year by staying up till 12 pm/am.

So...... We had to stay awake! Unfortunately our plan failed :( ! We were very exhausted, because of all our hikes!

5th day of Hiking!

This morning our parents woke up at 5 am to go to the poon hill, because there was an outstanding view of the mountains. Which was true! My brother and I woke up at 8 am. Just in time for breakfast! Our hike was 4 1/2 hours steep down wards. We ran into a bunch of families that had the same aged children as us! Today I just found out that our tour guide walked the same way as us when he was a porter at the age of 14. He is a great role model for children who don't go to school.

Our lodge was better than we'd imagined it. It had a toilet, and a hot, and cold shower in the room. After coffee my brother and I went out for a slow easy stroll. We found this piece of bamboo that tasted really sweet. At dinner there was a game (which they had won), so they offered (killed) a chicken and gave it to the lodge we stayed at.

4th day of Hiking!

Today we woke up very early, because there was a clear sight of the mountains. It was marvelous! The sky was blue, and clear!!! Over the night it had snowed! It was freezing cold. On my hands I had pre-frozed bite, which means it hurts whenever I touch something! We had a 6 1/2 hour walk up and down. I reached 3,000 meters of height! It had been the highest I have ever been. Everywhere we went there was a clear sight of the following mountains -

-Annapurna South
-Annapurna 1
-Fish tail
-Annapurna 3

When we arrived at our lodge we packed out a soccer ball, and started playing. Not after a while many Nepali teenagers joined us. But instead of playing soccer we played volley ball! In the end we gave them our ball since we have a lot of access to balls, which they don't.

3rd day of Hiking!

Today we woke up at 7:15 am. Our tour guide said that today was going to be a short, and easy track. We took 4 hours till we reached our lodge. I liked it, although the rooms were puny. During our walk we saaw many of the same type trees, but sadly didn't see any long tail monkeys. For lunch I had noodle soup and chapatti. I must say it was delicious!!!

For me it wasn't so cold, so my brother and I went out to go shopping. We bought presents for our parents. Which we think they'll like! After that we had dinner, and by the time we arrived the dinning room was filled with people! I got a head ache, because of the gas, which heated the room. Finally, BED TIME!!!