St Nicholas - at work

Happy St Nicholas to you all. I got a tiger painted face and my gift from St Nicholas was a real badminton set with proper rackets and a net for us to use in the garden. I am now ready for next year's good weather :-) I am also showing off my tattoo here - do I realise what it is of?

Birthday - my party :-)

And yes I had a party - of course I want the presents...not that my parents are pleased I say this. I did also enjoy driving around on the cars outside at Planetkids with my friends. Luckily it was not raining. I drove round and around and stopped to get some petrol and then carried on again. Mid point, we went inside for cake - chocolat one and not bad. We took a refreshment break and then back to playing, this time up and down on the play area inside :-) To end we gave Mr Men/Mrs Women books, sweets and balloons. I made sure we got some extra books and could keep the 'leftovers'. I now have more than 20 of these books :-) Thank you for coming and for the lovely gifts.

School Photo

Yes it's school photo time - and this year the men had to pose like this :-) My mamã and papá made sure I did not wear the same shirt two years in a row (well, technically it would have then been 3 years in a row).

London - the cool pictures

On the Saturday straight after karate, we went to train station and on Eurostar to London. What a wonderful 3 days trip. We went to Madame Tussaud, where I could do my best Michael Jackson impersonations and this time even in front of him, put my foot and hands next to famous people's foot and handprints, do the "Bolt" stand, sit next to Hermione from Harry Potter etc... etc...Even stood next to the Queen with mamã and next to Barack Obama with papá. After we met Grandma and Ti'pah, celebrated again with candles and cake before a dinner in local pub. The Sunday we went for a lovely walk along the Thames and up The Shard for the fantastic view over the city and beyond. Although I still remain frightened of heights taking the lift to 68th floor and then walking out and further up was not tooooo bad. I enjoyed the viewing binoculars more than looking through the actual glass. After we made our way across London via Covent Garden and saw a great entertainer in gold sitting on an invisible seat + an entertainer in british boxer shorts (only) with juggling acts. We met Uncle Jose, Chandni and Vivaan in St Pancras for lunch after a rather long walk around trying to find it but i worked it out from the multiple maps and looking at the shops to find out where we were :-) Then onto a train to go north to see the Making of Harry Potter - the highlight - I loved it. So much to see, learn, understand, read. It was cool for me and my parents. I even went broomstick flying and tried my hand at using a wand to cast spells. With a warm chocolate in our tummies enjoyed the bus, car and street outside before going to see the mechanical mechanisms for the dementors, griffith (?) etc... So cool. The Monday we walked along the front and had a mexican lunch back via convent garden and to Eurostar home.

My 8th Birthday

What a great 8th birthday. Jenn, Florian, Audrey and their Grandma came to celebrate with us on the Friday night. I had Star Wars birthday cake (deco only, my mamã would add) and home made cakes by me and mamã (with at least 5 power cuts for 40 small cakes made for school over a 4 hour period - aaahhhhh ! Although we got very efficient moving down to the fuse box).