USA Holiday - We've Arrived!

After much anticipation, the day had come. Finally our trip to the USA had begun. With a delay in departing Sydney and a missed connecting flight in Dallas, it took us a while to finally get to Orlando.

Fortunately I was getting pretty good at waiting.









We eventually checked into Disney's Art of Animation Resort at 1:30am! As you can see there was no one around at that time.



We stayed in the Cars section of the resort and it certainly felt like we'd been transported to Radiator Springs.

The waffles had Cars characters on them.



The resort area looked like a scene from the movie.






































These guys were from the Finding Nemo part of the resort. Occasionally you can hear them all yelling out "Mine, mine, mine!".




The pool was really good. It even had music playing under the water.



Here's a video of our arrival and what we found around the resort (click here if you can't see the video)




Stay tuned for part 2 of our USA holiday where we visit Disney's Magic Kingdom...

Christmas is Coming!

Now that Christmas is just over a week away, we thought it would be a good time to go and check out some of the good Christmas lights in the area. While we were in Caringbah for Emma's school presentation (she did really really well by the way!), we stopped in to see a special street with some amazing Christmas lights. It was like the whole street was battling against each other.

Exploring Cronulla

Now that the weather is warming up it is a good time to do more exploring outdoors. Just recently Dad and I went down to Cronulla and checked out the rock pools. I thought these were really interesting.

But before we did any exploring we had to get a drink and relax on the grass. You can see how relaxed I was.


Then we went down near the rocks and the water. I felt like doing a bit of posing down there!

Tactical Jack

Back in June, Dad and I went to a special expo called Supanova. It is called a 'pop culture' expo and has a lot of things like movies, comics and video games. Lots of cool stuff. There was one part of it that was setup like a warzone and it was called the Nerf Battleground. It was cool because you could pick one of the guns, grab all your darts and then go and find a good spot.









Here's a short video of what it was like in there:


There was also an area where they taught you how to draw different kinds of characters. I even got to dress up as one of them as you can see here (I'm an evil eraser!):

Sydney Vivid 2017

This year Dad and I went into the city at night to see the Vivid festival. If you don't know what this is, it's a special time where there are lots of really cool lights and effects all around the city. There are quite a lot of people around but it was alright. Some of the light effects are really good and make the buildings look really different.












I brought my own phone with me so I could also take pictures (yes I have one of Dad's old phones!)



Here's my careful photographer pose...

Basketballer

Can you believe I have just finished a season of basketball? That was the sport I wanted to try out this winter. I had a lot of fun even though it was pretty tricky at the start trying to bounce the ball and run at the same time. I didn't even know the rules at first! We got better after every training session and game and I enjoyed it.

Here's a short video from one of our games:

And here's a couple of photos of me in action!











When the season finished we had a presentation day and we all got trophies.

Driving with Jack

You might remember last year when I showed you a video of my new set of wheels (you can see it here). A little while ago we took the car out again but this time we stuck the GoPro to it! I think it looks pretty cool, especially when it almost catches me. We filmed some pretty awesome rolls, especially the big one at the end! Luckily nothing was damaged.