11th July. Canyoning, flying foxes and lasagne.

Today we went canyoning. SO MUCH FUN!!!!! There were four courses you could do. Green was easy. Red was the next one. Purple is the one I wanted to do but I couldn't, 'coz it was my first time and I might no be strong enough. Yeah right. Then it was black. That was the hardest one. You had to be over 16 or accompanied by an adult to do THAT one. Mum did green. Me, Ben and Dad did red. It was so much fun!!!!! Ben couldn't do some of it so he gave up about 3 quarters of the way. I finished the courses. So did Dad. My favourite was... either the flying fox or all of the. Except the one where there were two wires and you had to walk across but going up one a slope. I sucked at that one. We had harnesses on. Don't worry. The hardest part was taking them off and putting them one the wire that it needed to be on next. I could catch up to these three boys in front of me. I think they were pretty surprised that I was keeping up. When I finished I so tired. I found Ben and we went around trying find out where Mum and Dad were up to. Dad was nearly finished. He just needed to a long flying fox ride. When they finished we had to wait for the guides to take us back to where our bags and stuff was. It felt like a really long ride but it was really short. We went back to the car, and drove to a town and had dinner. I had lasagne. IT WAS SO NICE. Nice not NICE. If that makes sense. Good not the town place. When we got home I went straight to bed. My legs are so sore... xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoooxoxox katya

10th July. Islands, slippery rocks and ferries.

We got to go to the islands today. We had to catch at ferry to get there. When we got there I wanted to go straight to the beach to have a swim. But Dad said that we had to find a 'nice' looking beach first. There wasn't very many trees that would keep the shade off you so we were walking around in the sun. When we finally found a bay that we thought looked good we stopped. I jumped straight in. Well you couldn't really jump 'coz all the beaches had rocks and stones instead of sand. The other trouble was, it was really slippery. The rocks were cover in moss. I had to crawl into the water. When you got in it was so nice. But the water was a bit warm. Me and Dad went out to see if there were any fish. Hardly any! Either they were really tiny or swim away when you first saw them. We got out after that. Ben started to make a little hut out of sticks and leaves. It was pretty pathetic. When we left we walked most of the way around the island. Dad and Mum wanted to see the old fort but Ben wanted to eat. So we found a place near the water. But when Dad saw the prices for the salad he said it was to expensive. It was about $70 dollars just for a salad. Seriously!?!?!?! SO we decided to go back up. I ran up first 'coz when I got to the top I knew I could have a rest. But I didn't hear Dad call out my name so I ran right to the top. I waited there and no one was coming until Mum did. She told me that we were going to meet Ben and Dad down in the main part of the island. The place where there is food. So we walked down to the town kinda thing. And waited for Ben and Dad to come. It took forever for them to come. But they did. I was eating a small packet of chips while I was waiting. We walked back up to the fort. I was eating an apple to keep me going. We looked where they kept the prisoners. I didn't find it very interesting. We went back down so we wouldn't miss our ferry home. We got an ice cream before we left. When we got home I was so tired. I think I'm a bit sunburnt to... xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxo katya

9th July. Nice (again), beaches and the chateau of Nice.

We went to Nice today. Well had already been before but not like today where we actually got out of the car and had a look. Instead of watching it all zoom past us. We walked around in the mall, before we had a look at the markets. It's called a Bricbrac. I probably spelt that wrong even with Dad's extraordinary spelling skills. Usually. We walked to the top of the chateau of Nice. SO MANY FREAKIN STAIRS. I died half way up. We saw the runes of an old church. They digging it up at the moment, 'coz it had been all under ground. We walk around before we went down. I felt so light. No like I felt like I could fly, and jump really far. I was freaked out. I was the first one down to the bottom. Had to wait for ages... Got so bored of everyone driving past and staring at me. When they finally came down (Mum, Dad and Ben) we walked so slowly. When also had to find which bay we parked the car in. It was level -2 bay 110. When we finally got home we had curry for dinner. I had to make the salad. And then to bed. Legs are so sore... xoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxo katya

8th July. Marineland, minigolf and dolphin, seal and killer whale shows.

We ended up going but it took awhile to leave the house, but we made it there. Marineland. We saw the performing dolphins first. They were really good. They could do flips. Hold there TRAINER out of the water by the nose's. Their trainers could stand and ride on them while they were moving in the water, and heaps of other cool stuff. We saw the Antartica animals after that. Penguins, and seals. We looked at the turtles, sharks, fish and stingrays. They have one of those glass walk way things that they have at AQUA. It was really cool. We had a look at the sea lion show. It was funny. There was a big seal and a little one. They could balance balls on there nose's and get it into BB hoops. (Basketball). We went out of the Marine park to go to the Wild West thing. It had a maze. The hedges weren't very high, and super easy to get out of. Then me and Ben went up to a sort of tree house thing. They had different rooms that you could go into. You had to walk across nets to get to each one. There were only three. One had wooden beams. You could go into the roof of it. When Ben was in one of the rooms I told him to come, but I was in the roof, so he didn't look up. Then he wandered where I was. So he went to every other room but he couldn't find me. Then Dad thought that I could be in the roof. So he found me after that. I came and sat in 'his house' and on his couch kinda thing. Then he got mad 'coz I wouldn't get off. That kid has anger management problems. We went back into the Marineland to look at the polar bears they didn't do much. One 'coz it was really hot. And two they were sitting in the sun and not even bothering to go for a swim. If it was hot for me, it would of been worse for them. We went and saw killer whale show. They were HUGE!!! But there was one small one. They could do flips as well. They would wave to the audience. Their trainers would never go in with them. Probably 'coz they'd kill them. 'Coz there KILLER whales... get it???? It's funny. 'Coz Ben was complaining so much we did MINIGOLF. So much fun right? WRONG!! Ben got so agro when he didn't get it in the hole. See anger management problems. I was SO relieved when we finally finished. When we got home we had dinner and I tried to go straight to bed... but failed... :( xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo katya

7th July. Perfume museum, horrible night and burritos.

Today I woke up really late 'coz I had a really bad night. I was coughing, I had a runny nose and my eyes were really itchy. We said goodbye to Yves, Laure, Vincent and Fantine. (They are going for a little holiday by themselves as a family. So we now have the whole house to ourselves... well if you don't count Mystery and Confetti. We went to a perfume museum. There were heaps of different smells. Some of the smells were horrible. Some were really nice. I felt sick and had a head ache after all those smells. Right from the beging Ben wanted to leave. The museum had some dresses to show how perfumes had changed fashion 'coz of the smells or something. We went after that. Ben was begging for an ice cream. Dad finally gave in, Ben got lemon and strawberry. I'll give you one guess to guess what I got. Chocolate and chocolate. We walked back to the car and drove to the shops. I waited in the car. They took FOREVER!!! HALF AND HOUR. Luckily have have HEAPS of songs on my iPod. When they came back we had Burritos and Tacos for dinner... my favourite! Then I went to bed. Nose is still smelling horrible things... xoxxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxo katya

6th July. Minigolf, dodge and glass blowing.

I woke up late again. Fantine went to horse riding again and Yves and Laure went to work. We went to the pool today except Vincent came with us. Me and Ben played with him and tried to teach him the game DODGE. After that we came back and had lunch. We invited Vincent to come with us to Biot. We saw people doing glass blowing. It was really cool... well not really, 'coz of how hot it was, you need to basically melt the glass and mould it. We walked up the street and then back down. We hopped in the car and went home. We had duck for dinner. The were three pieces. Dad said it was Huey, Dewey and Louie. Haha Dad. Some of Yves friends went to minigolf with us. I wasn't that interested. But I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be. We started at 9 and finished at 12. The people that worked there had to kick us out. We ended getting up finishing the last hole. We didn't count to see who won. We didn't bother. We went straight home and straight to bed. Once again I am SO TIRED... xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox katya

5th July. Partys, pools and pork.

Today I woke up late got dressed and had breakfast. Fantine was at horse riding so I didn't see her till later, but I met Vincent (another Vincent... he's younger than the other one. He's my age). He looked completely different since the last time I saw him... but I can't really remember him very well anyway. He showed us where the pool was. We didn't go for a swim till later. When we got back Yves friends were already arriving.(He was having a party). We had pork, beans and potatoes for dinner. Later, everyone left and we went straight to bed 'coz it was past 12. SO tired... xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo katya