Rennes, France by the kids

On the 25th we drove to Rennes (pronounced: r-e-n), it is a bigger city than the place we were before. When we got to the hotel it looked pretty nice, the person gave us the keys and then left, there was a balcony but the chairs on it were broken, the table was big, but the place mats were dirty and then mum looked into the microwave. The was like two-day old food in there that was half covered in bugs, also the freezer was so cold that it froze the door shut. Other than that there was nothing else wrong with the flat, we had some people that were going to come over, it was Manon and Nathon (pronounced: ma-no, and na-ton). Mum and dad talked to them for a while, while me and Emma played, we played and talked and played and talked, when they left, we stayed at the hotel and did some blog. Then we went to sleep in a bed in France in this world in space.
On the 26th we were just walking around visiting different places in Rennes, what I liked was all the buildings, they were pretty old, and they still had wood in them. We kept walking looking at things, we saw a few churches, one of them was really big and there was lots of cool paintings, we also heard a pipe organ, it was beautiful. We went to a museum, there were two parts of the museum we were going to see, a bit on brain and some information about Leonardo da Vinci, we went to the brain one first. The brain one had lots of activities that were teaching stuff about the brain, I did all the activities, but my favourite one was where they would show you a video of two groups of clowns and tell you to see how many times one group pasted the ball and then they would tell you the answer at the end of the video and then ask you if you saw the white cowboy. They would show you the video again and pause and show you the white cowboy, they walked out and stood right in the middle of the screen. It was teaching you how when your brain is focusing on something, it can’t focus on anything else: it is called delusional blindness (I think). After that we went to the Leonardo da Vinci part. There were some examples of his work, it was cool, there was even a fake Mona Lisa we looked at different things for a while, then we went to Manon and Nathans place. We had dinner there and we looked at some manga (Nathon has a big collection) after the we went home and to sleep and we slept, and we slept, and we slept.
On the 27th we drove to Dinan, it was like some old town from the 16th century, most of the buildings were from long ago, we wandered around looking at lots of the buildings. Some I didn’t want to live in because they were leaning to the side, and it looked like it could fall over any second. After that we looked at some churches and we heard them tuning a pipe organ, how do you do that, I will explain. A pipe organ needs tuning when it is affected by temperature changes, so a pipe organ might need to be tuned when seasons change or when the heat is turned on in the winter and when the air conditioning is turned on in the summer. The way to tune an organ is by tapping up or down on the metal collar at the top of a pipe to raise or lower the pitch. After that we went to Saint-Malo, it’s a town very close to the sea, we were going to see a fort thing over there, when we got there we saw a huge wall so decided to walk on it, we saw a big area of beach with a big natural pool in the middle after walking around the wall we went over to the pool, there were some rocks on the other side of it and there weren’t many people there so me and dad went there, we saw some fish and then we saw a crab, we saw lots of seaweed. After that we went home and Manon’s friend came over to and guess what their name is, Manon, we played some games (I played video games) and after that, we slept.
On the 28th we were doing blog and schoolwork in the morning and then after that we were going to go to Thabor Park (or to say it in French: le parc du Thabor), when we got to the park we set up a picnic and we had lunch. Then mum said me and Emma could wander around wherever we wanted, it was going to be fun, but then they said we had to stick together, disappointing. We walked around a bit just talking and then we sneakily climbed up a tree near the parents and watched them for a while then we came down watched then finish a game and then we went to a restaurant. The place made a lot of mussels or in French the people call them moules, they also made galette for the people who don’t want mussels, me and Emma had galette, but mum made us try a mussel each, it was disgusting, revolting, utterly sickening Emma somehow loved it. When we finished, we went home and slept.
On the 29th we packed up our stuff and we went to our cousin’s boyfriend parents house (they want to see us) when we got there, we saw they had a dog that me and Emma played with (I’m missing our dog back at home). We were going to have a sea food plater, which in French is called plateau du fruit de mer, which means plater of fruit of the sea. When it came out it was nice we ate a bit and then we went to the car and kept driving to where we were going, which was Saint Quay. When we got there we went to our room put all our stuff in a pile and then went to Manues house (Manue is another person in our family) we had dinner there and then we went back to the place and slept.
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Andrew (10 years old)

Hello again friends. I am excited to share this blog with you. One thing I would like to tell you before you read this blog. On all the days we are going to be with Manon and Nathan.
On the 25th we drove to Rennes which was about 1 hour away from where we were. To keep myself busy, I thought of good ways to get money for a horse and played with Andrew. Manon and Nathan came over to say hello. We stayed in the apartment that day since dad was sick.
On the 26th we visited Rennes and walk around the city. We had galette for lunch. Galette is a savory crepe. I didn’t like mine that much. After that we went to a museum. The museum was about brains, and Leonardo Davinci. We first did the brain one. It had lots of stuff that made your brain work. There were memory games, stuff that explained emotions, movement. There were some things that showed that your eyes always switch to different things to see if your safe or in danger. In the Leonardo Davinci part, it was some of his inventions. There was also a presentation. If you want more information on the presentation, read mums blog because they were speaking in French, so I had no clue what it was about. Then we had dinner at Manon and Nathan place. I read lots of manga because Nathan had lots. Well, I didn’t read them I just looked at the pictures because they were in French. We got back late so we went straight to bed. Night night.
On the 27th we went to Dinan with Manon and Nathan. We saw some old church’s that looked like some parts were made in roman time and some were made in gothic time. In one of the church’s, we heard someone playing a pipe organ. I loved the sound of the pipe organ. Then we went to Saint-Malo. We walked on the rampart which is the long wall around the city. Then we went to walk on the beach. Manon and I found some little crabs that we held. Then we visited a boat. Me and Andrew pretended to fight on the boat. Then we went back to our place. Manon had a friend that came over to. guess what, her name was, Manon to. we played a few games and chatted then went to sleepy sleep. Good night.
On the 28th we did schoolwork. In the afternoon we went to a park. we had a picknick and then me and Andrew walked around. Mum and dad let us wander around as long as we stayed together. we ventured deep into the park and then decided to go back and spy on mum and dad. It was hot so we had a drink at a restaurant. Mum and dad got mussels, and it turns out I love them. We got back late so we went straight to bed.
On the 29th we drove to Nathans parents’ house for lunch. We had a sea food platter for lunch. I ate spider crab, shrimp and little snails. It was nice but if I ate to much of one thing at a time, it started to taste weird. Then we kept going to Saint Quay.
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