The stay in the first house!!! by Sarah

          When my family arrived at the big vacation house in Pohara, New Zealand, we said hi to Bippy, Gramps, Uncle Duncan and Aunt Eileen, Everett and Georgia.  They came all the way from LA to visit us for Thanksgiving.  We claimed our beds in the kids’ room and played games with Everett and Georgia.   It was the first time we had seen our family since we left St. Louis and I was excited to stay with them for a week.

          Everett and I played with Everett’s airplane and when it got dark, we watched Cars 2.  In Cars 2 ,Mater and McQueen go to one of McQueen’s races against  FRANCESCO BRANULY!!!  My favourite part of the movie was at the party before the races, Mater went to the bar to get a drink for McQueen, and then he saw some Wasabi and mistakes it for pistachio ice-cream. Then he takes it all in 1 lick and goes running out to the stage because there is a waterfall that he drank.  We watched it like 10 times because it was Everett’s favourite movie and mine too.

          The next day we went to the beach and went for a walk.  And of course, I got wet. I went out to a small island that gets covered when it’s high tide. When we got back from the walk, I went out to the beach again and made a tipi out of driftwood.   I had such a good time with Everett and all my relatives taking walks on the beach and working on the tipis all week long. 

          I also liked golfing with the kids, Daddy, and Uncle Duncan.  The golf course was right next to the house and the beach.  The best part was learning how to play golf and Daddy loosing 5 balls (one in the swamp and the rest in the ocean).

My favourite part of the week was playing in the water.  Everett caught his first wave. Everyone else made a tepee on the beach and Mia and Daddy took the canoe out in the waves and surfed on it. After we were done playing in the water and building teepees, we went inside and made dinner. The stay with the family was the best I had in a long time until we finish the world tour.