Off to the Isles of Scilly!

Imagine this, you are laying in your bed, around tenish, just sort of waking up and your mom walks in, opens the blinds, and says, "get up, get dressed, eat, and pack. Our plane leaves at 3:30 and we need to leave at 2:00." How would you react?

This is how I started my day on Wednesday February 17th. Remember, I am still trying to wake up so you can imagine how I took this news, I layed there. Did not get up, did not get dressed, did not eat and did not pack. Until maybe when 5 minutes had passed and I wa still laying in bed when boom! It hit me! I was going to the Isles of Scilly. That day at 3:30! I jumped out of bed threw all my clothes into my suitcase, I didn't bother with folding ;). Then I got dressed, grabbed my bags and ran across the street to my auntie and uncles house. There, I dropped my bags at the door and grabbed a bowl of cereal.

Around 3ish, we arrived at the airport in Newquay (pronnounced new key) and waited in line. When it came our turn, wouldn't you know it, our bags were overweight. We pulled out one of Jennifers purses, which happend to be quite large, and stuffed something from all our suitcases in it and our carry-ons, which they didn't even let us carry on! Finally, we got through, watched the safety video, and boarded.

As they say in the movies, "It's gonna be a bumpy ride!" And it was. We were flying in a SkyBus and so the plane was tiny and fortunatly it was a beautiful day for flying so we flew low and took the scenic route along the coast, which was beautiful. We took alot of pictures. I will be putting LOTS of pictures on soon. I can't right now because I left my camera cord in Canada! But it was beautiful! Anyways, when we landed we met up with my Uncle Mervyn who took us to my grandma and grandpas house to drop off our stuff and then to his and my Auntie Stephanies house (which is right down the lane) for tea (in Canada we would call it supper or dinner, which ever floats your boat). There we saw my Cousins Adele, who is my age, Dan, who is Jens age, and Jon, who is I think Charlottes age. (my other sister). That night we were eating toast at 1:30am! So you can guess when we got to sleep ;)

The next few days were full of exitment! Thursday we settled in nicely, and explored alot! Adele took me out to Toll's Island, a cute little Island you can walk to when the tide is low, and on Friday she took me out for hot chocolate, which ended up to be smoothies, to meet some of her friends and some of the people that were going to be in my class. We walked along the rocks which are just big rocks on the coast, very easy to fall on those! Then up to the Garrison, Star Castle, and the play park where we played stick in the mud. On Saturday we didn't do much. Me and Jen "helped" Jon with feeding the cows. All we did was sit in the back of the tractor and watch. Although we did each get a go at driving it. I almost drove into the electric fence and Jen drove in reverse back out and so of course she was really good because she has her learners liscence in Canada. That afternoon Jon left to go back to college, or university.

On Sunday we attended church, which was fun because there was maybe like 15-20 people there! After church we took a LONG walk which I did not like that much because I fell :(. The next day, today, I went to school.

It was not that bad. Apart from the uniforms it was okay. I pretty much shaddowed Adele and it was all good. For lunch we walk down to the primary school which is probably a 5 minute walk and buy what they call a school dinner. And of course the last period of the day is Math. On my fist day, we get a test. And of course I have to do it too! But, I am looking forward more to tomorrow because we have games which is pretty much gym but the entire school gets together and plays games like soccer (football here!) and things like that. I am also in Drama which could be interesting...