Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there! My family had some people over for brunch today, and boy was it good! We had pancakes, potatoes, sweet rolls from elmwood bakery, bacon, and a casserole. Then we opened presents and cards. My mom enjoyed her Mother's Day. I hope everyone else did too.

The Cleveland Art Museum

This is what you see when you point your iPad at a work of art with the museum's iPad app.

Yesterday I want to the Cleveland Art Museum. They have a new technology system were you bring your iPad and there is an app called ArtLens so you can scan certain artworks and it will tell you more about it like who painted it, what inspired it, who might be in the picture, and even some videos! Also,  it tracks where you are in the museum so you know were you are going or if there is certain part of the museum that you want to see. I had a great time at the museum with my family. I hope to go back some time soon.

Happy Easter!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays because I get all of my favorite candy! It was VERY EXITING. My family went to my cousins' house for an Easter breakfast and egg hunt for my little cousins Lily and Finn. They are only three years old so we just spread the eggs out on their front lawn. After breakfast, my other cousins, the Duke kids, came over for linner, which is lunch and dinner combined. We were all saying we had a very yellow dinner. There was pineapple, corn, croissant rolls, and to drink I had orange juice. After dinner I was playing volleyball and a card game called garbage. Overall I had a great Easter. I hope it is the same next year! 😜

Oberlin Choristers Honor Choir

Today I performed at Lorain Community College for honors choir. I sing in my schools choir and my music teacher got to pick 13 people to perform. We got to spend the day there and practice all of our songs with the other elementary schools. Though the only bad part of it was that we had to stand for most of the time. But other than that, it was awesome! I would love to go next year!

What I learned from this amazing experience was that you have to watch the conductor at all times or else you won't be with the rest of the group and that is just embarrassing! 😁

Memorial Park: Euclid

We went to Memorial Park. It is in Euclid. It was a hot and sunny day. We didn’t stay at the park for long because it was very hot. We went to the park with my friend Rebecca because she lives nearby and plays at that park.

When we got there we saw a big red train and another little play set but we didn’t know what it was. When Rebecca and I went over to the play set we found out there were giant musical instruments there were maracas and three sets of drums. Went to play the instruments and we had fun. Next, we went to play in the train. We found a whistle. There was a tunnel in the train you can sit in it because there was shade.

Memorial park was a great park. There was a swimming pool and a library nearby. They had water fountains, but we couldn’t drink the water because it was too hot. They had bathrooms too. I give Memorial Park 3 out of 3 swings. Too bad we couldn’t stay longer because it was very hot, but the library was air conditioned!

Rocky River Park

I've been to Rocky River Park more than once, and I’ve always liked it because it’s by lake Erie. You can play in the sand by the beach or take a walk in the water. But there are signs that say no swimming. The beach makes me happy but the playground equipment was boring!

First, the swings were regular. Second, there were two plain old slides. Third, there just wasn’t enough equipment to play on. There were clean water fountains. There were no concession stands but there were bathrooms. You could ride your bike down there like I did because they had bike racks to park your bike. I rode my bike with Tony and dad to Rocky River Park and it was about four miles from my house. I give Rocky River park one out of three swings because there isn’t enough equipment. Most schools have more playground equipment then Rocky River Park.

Lakewood: Madison Park

This was my first time at Madison Park and it was awesome! It was very new and some of the rides you haven't experienced before. There were some things that really didn't even have a name. Like there was a lumpy, teeter-totter thing that bounced up and down. One side went up and the other side went down. It felt good on my back when someone else was bouncing it up and down. There was also a twirly, tire swing thing. You just sit down and someone pushes you around in circles. When I went on, my dad pushed me around in circles. It made me feel dizzy!

There were three good slides. An orange one, a green one and a blue one. They were big and they would go twisty turvey. They had climbing ropes and then there was another thing that was a big tube with squares that you could climb up to the top on. I loved the zip line. All you had to do was push forward and hang on and it made me go side to side.

The ground is made out of melted rubber, so if you fall, you really won't get hurt. Madison park is also right next to the library. There's also a pool and a concession stand. There's a soccer field and tennis courts. They're also growing a garden right in the middle of the park! There were a lot of kids there, since it was a new park. I give this park three out of three swings.



Here I am on the zip line. Tony is behind me on the twirly, tire swing thing.

(Dad's note: there were some rowdy early-teens that were rough housing on the equipment, and I had to ask them to settle down. There are also a LOT of police video cameras around the park and playground, so interpret that how you will.)