Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2012

               Did you watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade? Well if you didn't, let me tell you a little bit about it. The Macy's Parade was held in New York. They held the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade because a long time ago, many of Macy's workers were immigrants and they missed their culture's holidays so Macy's decided to have a parade every Thanksgiving morning to honor Thanksgiving. In Macy's Thanksgiving parade, There were balloons, bands and floats. But before all that, people were singing songs from movies like Elf and Cinderella.

            Most of the balloons were characters from children's TV shows. Some of the balloons I liked are Spiderman, Pikachu and the Pokeball and Sonic. Some of the balloons were huge while others were smaller. I also remember there was the mascot of a baking ingredients company. He was a white person with blue eyes and a white chef hat. There was also balloons for girls like Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty was in a yellow airplane flying. The hosts said Hello Kitty's bow was very famous. Under each balloon a lot of people wearing shirts that went along with the balloon  were holding the balloon. 

           In front of each balloon was a band. My favorite band was a band with cool helmets on. There was also a band that had the Marines in it. The Marines were pointing guns at each other but they didn't shoot. I wouldn't like that band because I would be freaked out if somebody holding a gun was behind me. In the bands the people were playing flutes, clarinets, trumpets and much more. A lot of the bands were from high schools. They always were moving their legs so I guessed it was a marching band.  Most of the time I wasn't really paying attention to the bands because all their music sounded the same.

            At some point before the end of the parade some floats came into action. One float was about Domino Sugar. On the float kids were happy and a large machine was making GIANT cookies. Another float had Carly Ren Jepsen. She was singing one of her songs that I didn't recognize. After her float a bunch of other music bands or people were singing. Finally I recognized Kidz Bop. Kidz Bop is a company that uses kids to sing very famous songs in the appropriate version.

            At the very end they said Santa would come. So I saw Santa, but I really saw a bunch of Santas in different robes. One was in green, another was in purple and others were in different colors. Finally I saw the real Santa in his red coat with a long beard. After that the parade ended. That was a really long parade!  

The Tower of Doom

        Ahhhh! Eeeek! I was at Six Flags and I couldn't believe that I was going on the tallest and one of the scariest rides in Six Flags! I was finally tall enough to go on the ride, but I found out it was really scary because adults and teenagers were screaming their heads off. It was my turn to go on the ride, WHAT WAS I GOING TO DO?!

        As I was getting on the ride I asked my dad if the ride was going to be scarier than normal because it was closer to Halloween,and he answered yes. In my head I was freaked out because this was my first and scariest time on the ride. When we were at the top of the I could see people on wacky rides and eating delicious food. I could hear people laughing at funny plays and screaming on scary rides. I felt excited and scared at the same time. 

        Woosh! Ahhhhh! My dad and I were screaming like crazy because the ride was shooting down at it's top speed. I held my dad's hand so I'd feel safe.

          After the ride was finished,( which was like twenty seconds) we were super dizzy. After we recovered from being dizzy, we wanted to go on the ride again, but we had to go to a different ride. What an exciting and scary ride!

Hurricane Sandy

     "IT'S WORSE THAN HURRICANE IRENE!" What's worse than Hurricane Irene? Hurricane Sandy was worse than Irene! Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeast coast from 10/28/12-10/30/12. 

        Sandy Wrecked New York City so badly that everyone in the city had to evacuate and the city then looked like a ghost town. During the storm a crane in New York City collapsed and was very dangerous because it could break completely  and collapse on a building! The metro was closed because the train was flooded and some tunnels were flooded to the ceiling. In Ocean City all the bridges were closed and a boardwalk broke. In New Jersey an island called Point Pleasant Beach was being hit by huge waves.

        In my house some water was leaking through the walls and we had to sleep in the basement because if we slept in our rooms we would hear the howling wind and our rooms would be shaking. My dad didn't like to sleep in the basement so he slept in his room. The next morning was a bit better because the rain got lighter and the wind stopped. We found out that we had no internet, a bit of siding popped up and my room's window screen broke off.
Since we had no internet we couldn't watch TV and on the computer we could only play Cut the Rope (which got pretty boring).

         After a few days things got back to normal. My dad fixed the house and we still went to school. I SURVIVED HURRICANE SANDY!