Allepey, Kerala, India (by the kids)

I’M HERE!!! I told you I’d say it in my last blog, you didn’t think I would remember did you, whatever, I did, now enjoy.
On the 5th we went on a taxi to Allepey. The taxi was nearly two hours long, I didn’t feel so good, but not so bad that I was going to spew, just a little bad. On this trip, sometimes I’ve goten car sick, but it’s weird because I never got car sick till we started this trip. When we got there, we didn’t go to our proper room because they were installing a toilet, so we had to go to another room, but still in the same hotel. So we put our bags in the room and went down to the beach. My parents didn’t allow me to take of my shoes, because last time we went to a beach, there was crap everywhere, I even saw a light bulb. But when we got down to the water, they let us take our shoes of because it was way cleaner. Me and Emma liked playing this game, and this is what we did, we would get very close to the water, then when a big wave would come, we would attempt to outrun it. When we were done, we went to have dinner and then went to the hotel and slept.
On the 6th we went to a light house, it was really nice, at the bottom of the light house there was a nice garden and a little playground. We checked out the garden and then went up to the top of the light house, it was one hundred and five steps up, when we got to the top it was an amazing view. From up there, I could see, railway tracks, a highway, the beach, trees and a helicopter landing platform. We were up there for a bit, and then I noticed the boom gates were down on the railway tracks, so we waited because I wanted to see the train, then I heard the train horn. The train was a passenger train, it had 11 carriages and 1 locomotive. When we were about to go down, I noticed that the boom gates were down again, so we waited, this one had 16 carriages and 1 locomotive. Finaly we went down and swung on the swing in the playground a bit, then went for lunch. We had a few Indian snack things, and then after that, we went back to the hotel to do our blog. We also had to move to our proper room because they should have finished the toilet by now, nope, they hadn’t so we had to stay in the room a bit longer. When we finally moved to the next room, I played a bit of computer because I had done what I needed to do in my blog. We were also waiting for a tuktuk to come and pick us up and take us to a place. That place was where we would go on a boat, and we would go around in the water, then come back to the place. When that tuktuk came it drove us to the place and we hopped in the boat and started our trip. It was a very nice trip, there was lilies and floating plant things, don’t know what they’re called. We were on that boat till 8pm, we got off at 8pm (and we got on at 2pm). When we got there, the person who owned it gave us diner, it was delicious, I would have eaten more but I was full. After that we went to the hotel and slept. Night night.
On the 7th we started our day by doing schoolwork, not a very interesting subject. We also did a bit of our blog, I enjoy doing my blog, it’s interesting plus it’s on computers. We started trying to do the blog every day. By the time we finished our blog it was lunch time, we went to a garden restaurant. Emma and I had burgers. Mum calls it a cheat lunch because were in India and we should be eating Indian food. After lunch we went to a park. In the park there were ziplines, cable cars, rope bridges, peddle boats and canoes. I did everything, sadly Emma didn’t. The only thing Emma didn’t do was the rope bridge and the ziplines. After that we went down to the beach played a little then went back to the hotel and slept.
On the 8th we went to a museum, (again), but this museum was different, all the things were collected by one person. Their name was Revi, they owned a coir factory (will explain what coir is later). Whatever, they got rich and started a collection of artefacts. The artefacts weren’t old, they were actually relatively new, they had some glass sculptures only dating back to 2011, but Revi died in 2003. I think that people in his family started collecting for him after he died. My favourite artefact is a one that has corral and fish, it looked amazing: they had scales on the fish but the scales were made of little gems, I really liked it. Some of the stuff were worth over $50,000, so if all the stuff in that building were sold, they would have about $10,000,000. When we left that place we went to yet another museum. This museum was about coir, (see I told you I’d tell you about coir). When we got there, we figured out that coir is coconut husk, but put in a machine and made in to ropes, mats and other stuff: here are some of the other things, pictures, sculptures, walls, WALLS? They make the walls by compressing it so it gets hard, they actually made an entire house out of it, it was amazing. When we went home we slept. Night nightzzzzzzzzzzz
On the 9th we took a tuktuk to go to the ferry to go the other side of a 4 kilometre long pond, just to take another tuktuk to go to a bird sanctuary, a lot of things to ride in. The good thing about that is I learnt how to signal a tuktuk driver to pull over: all you need to do is stick your hand out on the side facing the road, you’d think I’d have figured that out a while ago. When we got there we paid to go in, then went into the bird sanctuary, we didn’t see that many birds, mainly because the migratory bird are coming back at mid-March, and it’s not mid-March yet, so there not here yet. There still were some bird there, there were these really big stalks called painted storks, there were also some rivers in the place so we saw some fish. I had something called Plan A and Plan B. Plan A is when I sneak up to the river and see if I can see any animal. If not, I activate Plan B. Plan B is where I do a big jump and see if anything moves. And if it doesn’t work, I walk away disappointed. After that we went on a boat trip a little bit around the lake then came back to the front of the bird sanctuary, then took a tuktuk back to the ferry, to take a tuktuk back to the hotel (and sleep). Good night.
On the 10th we finished of our blog and packed our bags because we’re leaving today: we’re leaving (not early at 7:30pm), we’re taking a night train, it’s going to be tiring. I hope I sleep well. Whatever, I hope you’ve enjoyed the blog.
Andrew David Bridson (almost 10 years old), 10 times Nobel prize winner, leader of TRALOA (The Rights and Laws of Andrew).
The end, to be continued…

Hello again, I am here to tell you about what we did on the 5th to the 10th of March.
On the 5th we took a taxi to Allepey, and it took just under 2 hours to get there. It was long and I didn’t feel that well. so, I looked outside for a bit. Anyway, after that we went try to find lunch. Then once we found some food we headed down to the beach. It was so much cleaner than the last one we saw. This one didn’t have hardly any rubbish. Andrew and I played in the water lots. We got soaked and in trouble by mum and dad. So, we apologize lots, and they forgave us.
On the 6th we visited the light house and boy did it have lots of steps. I thought I wouldn’t make it, but I surprisingly did (For your information there was 105 steps). At the top of the lighthouse, we could see the train tracks, the boom gates, houses and the river. It was beautiful. We saw two trains passing through. After, we went and played on the playground at the bottom. There was a swing set, a slide, a spiny thing and a seesaw. Andrew and I had a match on who could stay on the ground the longest and I won. Then we went back home and relaxed a bit. After a while we had a tuktuk take us to a boat place because we had booked a boat ride. Me and Andrew got a job where we got a paddle to push the leaves away. It got boring in the end. So, Dad gave out the goggles. We spotted a few birds; we saw king fishers and woodpeckers. They were beautiful. We saw billions of rice plants. It was lovely.
On the 7th we did some schoolwork and blog. Then we went out for lunch. We went to a place that was called The garden café. It was lovely. It had plants everywhere. Then we went to a park that had canoes, peddle boats, swing set, playground, rope bridge, (which I had a melt down on) and a zipline. I refused to go on the zipline. I tried the rope bridge, but I failed badly (mum edit: but she tried very hard and we are very proud of her for trying). After that we went down to the beach for a swim. We got sandy and disgusting. We played for about three hours. I loved it so much.
Saturday the 8th we visited two museums. At the first one there were lots of glass sculptures and furniture. It was amazing. My favourite piece of furniture was a treasure chest thingy, and my favourite in the glass ones was two dolphins swimming together. There were also stuffs made from diamonds and gems. It was a wonderful experience. Then we visited the coir museum. (fyi, coir means the inside of a coconut). It was a museum were there were statues of fake people, who were showing you how to make stuff out of coir. they made lots of different stuff.
Sunday the 9th we took a tuktuk to a boat station all the way to the other side of the lake. Then we took a tuktuk to the bird place. We saw birds, butterflies, turtles and fish. It was fun especially when dad put on a bet. Who ever saw a bird first would get a mentos. There was one thing that could been better and that was there could have been more birds. After that we went on a boat ride to try and see otters. I liked it and I learnt some new bird names.
Monday the 10th we did are blog and waited for our night train.
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