Merry Christmas

The day finally came! Another Christmas is here and it was very exciting. To get in the festive mood we went into the city to get a look at the Christmas lights which you can see in the video. Only a couple of days after that and it was Christmas day. I was very lucky to get many cool things that I wanted.

I hope you all had a great Christmas!

If you can't see the video below, click here to watch it.

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.

Jack the Explorer

Back in March (yes, Dad forgot to post these ones earlier!) I went on an exploring trip in the city with Dad. We visited things that we had not really seen before.

We ended up doing a lot of walking - around 15 kilometres! We got to see really old cannons that were underneath the harbour bridge which I thought was really cool. There was even some of the old walls from the forts that used to be there.

I was also in the mood to get my picture taken so we took lots!

My 8th Birthday

As I'm sure you know, July is a big month for me because it's my birthday time! This year I turned 8. It was a very big and exciting day.

It started off with me getting up and unwrapping presents. I got some really cool things. Then I went to the movies with a bunch of my best friends to see Spiderman: Homecoming. It was really good! After the movie we had lunch then a gaming session at my Dad's place. After that it was time to say goodbye to my friends and head off for dinner at the Tradies with Nanna and Grandad. What a day!

Mum made me a really yum cake:



As you can see my birthday cake was actually a Pokeball which is from Pokemon if you don't know.



The video below shows how my morning went as I unwrapped my presents. You can also see me playing something new that I got!