Cochin, Kerala, India (by the kids)

Hello, I am, thinking of cool entrances, it is harder than you think way harder I can’t just keep say I’m back. I got it, I will say, (cue dramatic music) I will say, I’M HERE. That’s it, I’m a genius. Okay I’ll do that next time, now enjoy.
On the 24th, I was very excited because we were going on a plane to India. First of all, I love going on planes. Second, I love watching tv on planes. The bad thing about that is that there were no tv on the plane, sad. But at least I got window seat on the first plane. First plane? Sorry, I forgot to tell you that we took two planes, one to Bangkok and one to India. We had to go to Bangkok first because we needed to go to a bigger airport so we could get an international plane. When we got on the first plane, we waited for a little bit for the plane to start moving. When it did start moving I got very happy because I love the feeling of taking off, it is very fun. Skip one hour and thirty minutes in the future to when we landed. When we landed we got off the plane and guess where we were, we were in Bangkok (not India yet, that’s for the next plane). We had to wait for a while because the next plane was in 5 hours, now that’s annoying. When we got on the next plane it was in the night so we had to sleep. When I woke up we were getting close to landing and it was nearly midnight so we went to the hotel and slept.
On the 25th we went out to breakfast, our first Indian breakfast. We had Indian treat things some were spicey and some weren’t, I am doomed because I don’t like spicy stuff, it burns my tongue. When we finished eating we went back to the hotel where I did a bit of research, then video games. At the end of the day we went to this very fancy restaurant I got butter chicken it was delicious but a bit spicy I didn’t finish it, it was too spicy for me. Then we went to the hotel and we slept.
On the 26th we went on a taxi to go to the centre of the city, thats because our old hotel was in the outskirts of the city, not near the middle of the city. When I say old hotel it is our actual old hotel because were moving to another hotel closer to the middle of the city. When we got there we walked around looking for an atm because we didn’t have much cash, and cash makes it easy to pay the tuktuk drivers. But whatever, when we got some money out, we went over to a wall at the ocean trying to go to the beach. When we went over the wall yay, there was no beach just water. We could see a beach further up, so we went up there looked at it for a bit then went home to sleep. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
On the 27th we went to go visit fort cochin, it’s a touristy place. But it has a lot of museums and good restaurants. We went to a restaurant, it was very fancy and I like fancy. Me and Emma had a share plate it was huge it had lots of stuff on it and it was delicious. When we finished it, well we didn’t finish it, it was way too big. When we were done with it, we went to see the Chinese fishing nets, they’re these huge, big bamboo nets that they lower into the water then pull it up. Then they see if there are fish in it, if not they lower it in again. When we finished looking at that, we went to the bastion bungalow. It’s a museum cross fort, a bit of each, when we went inside it we figured out that it was manly information not sculptures. There were a few things that weren’t info, they were stuff to look at, but mostly information. It was cool, when we left we went to another museum, it was about war and weapons, in it there was missiles, guns and models of ships. I like models of anything so I liked the little ships. There was also a proper helicopter it was about twenty meters long. When we left there we went to have a few drinks, I wanted a Pepsi but my parents said no so I had to a juice instead. I want a daily soft drink, whatever! After that we went to a show, well actually it was more like a play. The play was about gods and demons. The show was really interesting. At the start they put makeup on, on the stage: they had lots of colours on their faces. When they finished their make up the play began. At the end of the play, we went home and slept.
On the 28th we went to another museum it was very cool though: the place had forty thousand artifacts, some dated back to the 8th century and some from the15th century. There were all sorts of kinds of stuff. It had three floors, all covered in old stuff. There were some things for sale, I wanted to buy some old coins for my money collection, but I had nowhere near enough money to buy it. There were swords, old parchment, statues, jewellery and old clothes. There was loads of stuff on every floor, there was a lot. When we left guess what we did next, we went to another museum. This one had a lot to read about and it was bigger. I don’t remember much about this museum my brain was tired of too much information. When we went out into the museum garden (the museum has a very big garden, I forgot to tell you) we went to a swing where we played on the swing for a while. Then my mum told me that there was a big fake dinosaur in the garden, so we went over there and it was huge like 50 meters tall (mum edit: it was more like 15 metre tall!) (Andrew edit: I couldn’t remember I’m innocent). Then my mum told me that there were a bunch of live deer, so we went there. We found out that there was about a hundred deer. After that we went back to the swing and swung a bit more then went home and slept. Good night.
On the 1st we went to two parks, but they’re not any average park. The first one was about 500 meters long, the second one was about kilometre long it was huge. There is a bunch of separate playgrounds: little one and then bigger ones. When we got to the swings me and Emma made up this crazy game. So, we would swing with our thongs on and then kick them of and see how far they would go. It was surprisingly fun, after that we started walking along the river side. Then all of a sudden we heard a BOOM, we didn’t know what it was, so then we kept walking. Then, we heard another and another we looked across to the river and guess what, it was FIRE WORKS. We sat on a bench for a bit watching them, when it finished we walked a bit longer, then took a tuktuk back to the hotel.
On the 2nd we visited a palace, I’m not going to write much because it’s just another museum and I’ve written about a lot of museums. But I’ll talk about a little bit, in the palace there was a lot of wall paintings. On this journey I’ve discovered that I like wall paintings, I think there interesting (I don’t just think they are, I know they are). After that we went to a street called Jew Street. In that street they sold lots of artifacts and perfumes. We went to a perfume museum, it was sort of like a museum, more like a shop. It was free to come in and I could smell them for free. Emma bought a strawberry perfume, it cost $9.21, very cheap, when we left my nose felt like it could fall of. After that we went to have dinner, we played a few card games as well, it was fun. When we finished dinner we went to another show. This show was about martial arts. It’s an Indian sport they used proper weapons, still sharp and made out of metal. They did not go easy on each other, amazingly nobody got badly hurt (I think one of the fighters got a little hurt). When it finished we went to another show, this show about music, can’t explain much about this one, I can play music but not explain it, explaining is my weakness. Whatever, when the show was over we went to the hotel to sleep. (sadly, no movie, it was late at night, 10pm). Sleepy time.
On the 3rd I had the funnest and annoyingest day in India so far. We went to an amusement park. The rides were amazing, it was so fun I could have stayed there all week. There was also a water rides section, that was the annoying bit. It was annoying because of the F***ING weight limits, most of the slides were 30 kilos or 40 kilos up and I’m annoyingly only 27 kilos, I’m very light. I could do some and they were really fun but a weird thing is, there was this cone one that I couldn’t do. But the funny thing is that I did one exactly like that in Cambodia, the only difference is that the one in Cambodia was bigger. Now where does TRALOA (The Rights and Laws of Andrew) come in? TRALOA should be respected globally. When we finished we went to the hotel and slept.
On the 3rd we blogged and blogged and blogged and blogged, then guess what we did after that, we blogged and blogged and blogged a bit more then we slept.
The end… to be continued (duh duh duhhhhh)
Andrew (9 years old)

Hello party people. I am here to tell you about India! Two thing you need to know about India is that they are crazy drivers, and you can’t drink tap water. (Oh wait, my mistake there is three thing you need to know about India, and you already know two of them.) so I am going to tell you about the other one. It is BOILING!!
Monday the 24th we took two planes to India. On the first plane we went to Bangkok. On the second plane we finally arrived in India, it was around midnight. when we arrived at our hotel we went straight to our bed and slept.
Tuesday the 25th we had our first breakfast in India. It was good but some of it was spicy, so I needed to drink lots of water. After that we stayed at our hotel and then we did some research, then we showed mum and dad our work. For diner we went to a nice place. Me and Andrew got a butter chicken each and it was too spicy, so we did not finish it.
Wednesday the 26th we took a taxi closer into the centre of Cochin. I have told you a little bit about how they drive but now I shall tell you more. This is the way they drive. Fast fast fast fast fast fast. BRAKES. Beep beep. Gosh they are noisy. After that we walked around to find an atm and some food. After we went searching for the beach. We found a beach but guess how beautiful it was. It was a disgrace. It had rubbish all over it. Then we had dinner. For dinner we had chapati with sauce. It was good but it was not my favourite.
Thursday the 27th we went and had a fancy breakfast. Me and Andrew ate it easier because it was not spicy. Then we went to the Chinese fishing net. IT WAS HOUMUNGUS!!! It was big bamboo pieces, but then they joined them together to hold up a big net. They lowered it in the water let it sit there a little bit and then they pull it back up. After that we went to see bastion bungalow. We were too early like always, so we walked around a bit. When we were allowed in, we saw a few maps, some boats, and some statues. Next, we went to the Indian naval maritime museum. It is an army museum. It had missiles, it had guns, it had helicopters and boats. After we were finished there, we went to a place with a violin player. I was shy at the beginning, but when Mum convinced me, I took a little turn on the violin. I didn’t have much of a go as it was too big for me. We had a few drinks and left for a church. After we went to kathakali show. It was really good. We got to watch them put on makeup and see them dance. I loved it we had dinner went back to our hotel and slept.
Friday the 28th we did schoolwork and blog in the morning and went to the Kerala Museum in the afternoon. There were around 40 thousand sculptures, masked, belts, (with bells on them.) and clothes. (don’t worry, it isn’t 40 thousand per thing. Its 40 thousand altogether.) it was amazing. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about something. There were three levels of stuff. There was a mini chess board. I think that is my favourite thing. We visited the hill palace museum, there was lots of writing and stuff. Then when we got tired of reading, we went and walked around the park. We found a swing set. We swung for a bit. There was a place where there were deer. Some of them got really close. Then we took a tuktuk for dinner. Then home and bed.
Saturday the 1st we went to two parks and played on both playgrounds. then we went to walk along the river and saw the rainbow bridge. (PS, wasn’t Actually rainbow at all.)
Sunday the 2nd we visited the Mattancherry palace. It on Jew Street. Then we went to the synagogue. the synagogue is something like a church. Then we went to this scent shop thingy. Anyhow I found one I really liked. It was a strawberry scent. It smells beautiful. Then we had some drinks and played some boardgames. After that we saw some martial art. They used swords, daggers, bamboo sticks and a whip. There was music as well. They played three songs. I liked the sound from the guitar thing.
Monday the 3rd we went the Wonderla park. it had land rides and water rides. First, we went on the land rides because the water rides were closed. (Well, they were not closed closed, but they were not open for the morning.) My favourite ride in the dry section was the kangaroo one (It goes up and down a bit like you are freefalling). My favourite ride in the wet section was the water coaster (It is a rollercoaster that goes up a hill, and then down and makes a big splash of water).
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