Summer Gaming

My 8th Birthday was on Sunday!

I went to the BouncyPlace in Kent. They had a lot of different blowup bounce playsets. There was: a race obstacle course, a bouncy house, a bouncy sport place containing a football goal and basketball goals and a soccer ball, and a big double sided slide.

What I got for my birthday

1. Bumblespud - which was a Transformer/Mr Potato Head, from Grace
2. HotHoops - a basketball game from Cayce
3. Micromotion King Arthur Castle set - including Sir Lancelot and Garlon and a Sea Dragon, from Zach and Sophie
   
4. a Trampoline, from my mom and dad
5. a Starter Bakugan set, which includes 3 bakugan and 6 bakugan cards, from Connor

I really liked all my presents.

Back to Little Big Planet (LBP)

Today I got new prize bubbles in community levels. One of them was a cool stunt bike.

There's this level called "Test Machines" that you have to close the garage then pull the lever of which vehicle you want. Then open the garage quickly because the vehicles disappear in one minute. Hold on to the driving thing or steering wheel that is, and you get to destroy some walls which are breakable. All you have to do is run into them and then they disappear in a little bit.

Once you're done with that, you launch up into the destroying room and it destroys your vehicle. Then you come out and you see a picture that shows a tank and a magic mouth says, "A red fist has appeared at the beginning of the level. Grab it to go to the tank." That's what I think it says.
Anyway, once you're done get the double life checkpoint then launch yourself into the air and onto a glass ride all the way back to the garage. If you miss, don't worry, you just come straight back to the launcher and try again.
If you pull the lever again and do it all again, the lever will turn upside down into horrible gas after the second time. So you get to use each vehicle twice. When you're done, go back and grab the red fist I was talking about and you will rise up to the tank.
Grab the green switch and pull it backwards to make the tank go forwards. Don't use the cannon until the end. Don't worry - you will destroy all the enemies anyway. If you destroy the tank, you only get two so watch out.
After you drive the tank all the way to the end you have to use the cannon even if it says "don't use the cannon or it might kill you" you have to use it anyway. Jump up to get the tank prize bubble on a glass slide. And that's the end of the level.

Flower on PS3
There's this really cool game called "Flower". You're a special petal that controls the wind. You get more petals by activating the flowers you find. Once you get a whole special group of flowers that are different colors in different levels, that activates special stuff.
Here are some examples:
Level 5 - turning dangerous wreckages into shiny silver so you don't get hurt by them.
Level 4 - lighting up the darkness by getting lights on, including lighting up haystacks with cool silver blue light - ha ha!
Level 2 - Turn all the rocks from black and white into their usual colors and changing the grass color so it looks cool and grassy
Level 1 and 6 - Help the tree by destroying the wreckage in the city and in level 1 by getting all the flowers around the tree

On level 6 the music and everything made me cry in happiness because destroying the wreckages in the city was so happy. Also I was crying because I had never been that happy before in my life. Restoring the city to pure shininess made me feel very very happy.

And then there is this bonus level I played today (my dad really had the controller but I was watching him) it was a credit bonus level by making the flowers into pure happiness with the peoples names who made the game, the letters floated into the sky. You get to see the rest of the credits once you completed everything else.

I would give this game a rating of MAXIMUM STARS! Because it was such an AWESOME game!

Going to the Space Needle and Seattle Center
Today we went to the Space Needle. It was my first time riding the elevator all the way up to the top! I got to look through the binoculars and see all the way down on Lake Union. It looks pretty small from up on the Space Needle. Probably like only 2 inches tall!

I conquered a fear. Before I never wanted to go up there. I thought I might have fun up there and make the fear go away. And it did.

I got a pack of Starburst candy for later. Then we waited in line for the elevator behind some Russians (which my dad knows how to speak their language). I asked daddy what they were saying and they were talking about their kids, while they took turns feeding their little baby.

Then we met up with Jace and Rachel. Jace didn't want to go up when I did so they had gone to go on the rides. Then Jace changed his mind and wanted to go up.

So my dad got them tickets to go up to the top while we went to the Fun Forest and played some Air hockey, went on the big indoor bouncy slide, threw some darts to pop balloons for prizes (I got a red dragon for me and a black penguin for my brother (he LOVES penguins)), and tried Skeeball but the points we had to get was too large to get a prize. Then we got a picture at the SketchMaster and it looked like we were sketched by a pencil artist.

Here is what the picture looks like:




Then we went to the Center House to get me and my dad some food. I got a hot dog and chocolate milk while my dad got a crispy hot dog with some ketchup and mustard. And he got a lemonade. I got another souveneir penny for my collection.

While we were eating, Jace and Rachel (my nanny for the summer), came by. They had fun up at the top of the Space Needle. Rachel said, "When we were at the top of the Space Needle, I told Jace 'Look at the Ocean!' Jace said, "It's not the Ocean, it's a SOUND!" meaning Puget Sound. My dad said, "Don't challenge the Geography Kid!" (which is my brother, he loves maps, he goes on Google Maps EVERY DAY.)

Then my dad and Jace and I went down the elevator but Rachel was trapped outside the elevator so she took the stairs. We met up with her down at the Children's Museum and went inside.

First place we went to was Cog City. We went there first because we love it. Because of all the balls and the button that you hold down that does a cool thing - it pours water out of a tube onto a water wheel. Then it spins clockwise. (because the tube is sticking out of the right side)

I was with Rachel and my dad and Jace went missing. So we looked at the left side of the museum and we found them at the fire engine.

After we left that we went to the middle part of the children's museum (the pretend rocks and trees). You have to lift up rocks to see what's underneath them - you might see some familiar animals.

Moving on...

We got outside and Jace didn't want to go to the fountain. So my dad and me went to the fountain. My dad watched while I went down to the fountain. When it was done playing music I touched the fountain and it was very very wet. We saw some rainbows in the fountain.

We caught up with Jace and Rachel. We got some cotton candy. Then we went into the Science Center for a little while. Then it was time to head home. We stopped at the Space Needle to get our picture and got it made into a magnet.

Then we drove home in our van. The traffic was really bad. We went to Safeway on the way home and got groceries.

That was my big trip for today.