Islands of Adventure

Islands of Adventures opened in 2000 in Orlando, Florida. It is a theme park with many different roller coaster rides and attractions. It has 5 different "worlds" if you want to call it that in the park, "worlds" like: Seuss Landing, which has the theme of Dr. Seuss; The Lost Continent, which has a fairy tale theme of dragons, unicorns, and Poseidon; The Marvel Super Hero Island, which has Spiderman, x-men, Dr. Doom; Toon Lagoon, which features Popeye, Betty Boop, and etc. and last but not least is Jurassic Park, which of course is about dinosaurs.

Marvel Super Hero Island has rides like: The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman where it’s a 3D virtual roller coaster and you go in and battle all the bad guys. Doctor Doom’s Fearfall is where you will go 150 ft up in the air and drop. Storm Force Acceleration is where basically you’re in a tea cup thing and will spin around pretty fast. The last is the most amazing roller coaster of all time called The Incredible Hulk Coaster. This amazing roller coaster goes from 0 to 40 in 2 seconds with many turns and spins.

Toon Lagoon has fun rides too. Dudley Do-Right’s Ripsaw Falls is a fun water ride where YOU WILL GET SOAKED! Then there is Popeye and Bluto’s Bilge Rat Barges where you are going to get soaked then too :)

Jurassic Park River Adventure is a water ride and at the end you do a big drop before getting ate by a T-rex. Then we have Pteranodon Flyers where you go around flying in a hanger.

The Lost Continent has Poseidon’s Fury which is a little show that has much action through it and is definitely is something you need to see. The Flying Unicorn is a little miniature roller coaster that was made for little kids so they could go on them which is fun too if you ask me. Then they have another roller coaster called Dueling Dragons, this is a roller coaster between either choosing ice or fire with the dragons and basically its two roller coasters all in one.

Dr. Seuss Landing has The Cat in the Hat this ride is fun for all ages, but mainly this little section is made for littler ones.

I would definitely recommend going to this park it’s so fun and it never leaves anyone unsatisfied or leaving unhappy.

Robert the Doll

I will tell you a little bit about Robert the Doll. He is a 3 ft doll from head to toe and was given life like features and was also said to be a voo doo doll. He was given as a gift to Gene from his Jamaican nurse, now usually every kid has an imagination with everything and has an imaginary play mate. Gene’s parents usually heard him talking to Robert, but the weird thing is there was a voice that would answer back that wouldn’t be Gene’s voice. Mishaps started to happen and Gene’s answer would be “Robert did it.” Usually when the Otto’s were out of the house neighbors said they could see Robert run from window to window in the house and they said they could often hear Robert talk and giggle. At night Gene started to scream out in the night and when his parents would run to his room his furniture would be turned over and at the foot of Gene’s bed there would be Robert sitting there glaring. Eventually Gene’s parents put Robert up in the attic.
When Robert’s parents died they gave the house to Gene. Now all grown up Gene and his wife moved in to his childhood home. He was now an artist and felt him and his wife needed a more spacious house. It wasn’t long till Gene found Robert up in the attic and moved him down to the turret room. Gene’s wife did not like Robert one bit and felt an evil presence to the doll. One day when Gene was out of the house his wife moved Robert back up to the attic, when Gene came home to find Robert misplaced he got mad and said Robert needed a room to himself and moved Robert back to the turret room. The people of Key West always hated walking by the Otto home. Gene finally got tired of Robert’s antics and moved him back to the attic. Guest often heard things in the attic move around and hears giggling and all together stopped visiting. Gene died in 1972 and his wife sold the house leaving Robert in the attic. The rumors died down in Key West and a new family moved in. A little girl who was ten found Robert in the attic and added him to her toy collection. It wasn’t long before she started screaming in the night. They then donated him to the East Martello museum where you can now find Robert the Doll. People have had bad experiences with him there too. You never want to make fun of Robert, because things start to happen to you that are not good. You are always suppose to ask Robert to take his picture, and if your picture turns out black he didn’t want you to take his picture. Robert is a real thing and if you don’t believe me why don’t you visit him in Key Wet, Florida.

Savannah, Georgia

Just these past weeks I came home from South Carolina. But on my trip there I was on the border of Georgia and got to go to Savannah, Georgia, which is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The city is awesome and set out in 26 squares. The oldest street there is River Street and it has many little shops and places to eat. Savannah has many of their old historical houses up and it’s really neat. They say it is also one of the most haunted cities in the U.S. and everywhere you step whether that be on the sidewalk street or on top of a floor board in a house people are buried under you. Savannah is also known for the introduction of voo doo in the U.S. back in the 18th century people brought slaves over from Africa and hence then they brought voo doo with them. Voo doo can be good and bad, when you look at all the older houses in Savannah you will see blue shutters. This is said to protect the people and house from evil spirits entering. The first people in to ever be in Savannah were Indians. They were about 7 to 8 feet tall and then here come settlers from England whose average height was about 5’8 except the leader who befriended the chief of the Indians and who helped him lay out and build Savannah. In one of the squares you will see a huge rock in the middle of it, the rock was dedicated to the chief and underneath he lays resting. In that same squares they use to have the gallows there and no moss grows there and if you look everywhere else moss is everywhere. The story is that someone was hung there and they were innocent well what happened is they cursed that place. From then on moss has never grew there even if the wind blows hard the moss will not come on that square but every other square has moss. Then there is the Pirate’s House, which is the coolest place ever. Pirates from the early time all lived there and in Savannah you can find tunnels all over the city from the pirates bootlegging alcohol, because back then the only alcohol they could drink was wine and beer. So the pirates would sneek in hard liquor, especially rum. Now the pirate’s house is suppose to be the most haunted place in Savannah and was actually featured on Ghost Hunters. I would advise going there it is fun and especially if you’re a history person Savannah would be your place to go.

Breaking Dawn

I just got done reading the fourth book in the Twilight series called Breaking Dawn. It was really good and exciting to read and I must say the best book I have read by far out of the whole series.
In the beginning of the book Bella and Edward get married and go off to an island that Carlisle bought for Esme and spend their honeymoon there. Well from there Bella and Edward consummate their marriage which leads to an uh o baby. From this baby Bella gets very sick because the baby is half vampire so therefore it’s basically going to kill her from feeding off her body. And just like that the honeymoon was over and they call Carlisle and come home.
Then the book switches over to Jacob Black’s point of view in the book. They hear about Bella and that she was going to produce a monstrous baby. So the pack came up with the idea that they had to kill the Cullens including Bella. Well by this Jacob didn’t want to do it for Bella’s sake. So he left the pack for good and Sam was not to happy about this. From there on Jacob went to warn the Cullens about their plan to attack them. He saw Bella and how sick and fragile she was, even though she wouldn’t let them take the baby out of her. From there on Jacob kept the look out for the pack to find that Leah and her little brother joined Jacob to protect Bella. During this time Bella is dying so the Cullens try to find a way to help her. They find that by her drinking blood that the baby seems to respond to that and take that away from her instead. Bella finally has her baby and when this happens Jacob instantly imprints on Renesmee.
The book then switches back to Bella’s point of view and she is finally a vampire and is exploring her views. A girl from the Volturi come to visit the Cullens and see Renesmee well she reports this back to the Volturi and they think they made a little child this way which is against the rules. From this they want to destroy the child and the Cullens. The Cullens then ban together to get as many vampires to stick up for them. When the Volturi finds out it was all a misunderstanding they kill the girl who reports this. And let the Cullens be in peace. This book is really outstanding and I would recommend you to read this.

A Haunting In Connecticut

The movie "A Haunting in Connecticut" is a scary movie and actually based on a true story and real events. The beginning of the story starts out with scary pictures that were placed in the 50’s and then it’ll flash back to something scary. So then right from the beginning you knew it had to do with scissors and being cut. Then it goes right in to a woman talking about why she didn’t know why those things happened to her when they moved in to the house.
Her son has cancer and they lived so far from the hospitals which he had to go there weekly to do treatments on him. The treatments make him really sick and driving back from the hospital was always a pain. So then they found a house that wasn’t far from the hospital. Instantly from the first night staying in the house Adam, the boy, had experiences and dreams about a little bit of what happened. After this they bought the house and moved their whole family in to the house. As days progressed on more and more things started happening. Adam wouldn’t tell anything that was happening because they said the treatment made him see things and they didn’t want Adam to get put away. The flashbacks that he would have would be people sitting around a table as if to conduct a ceremony and then it’ll flash back to a guy cutting bodies and their eyelids off.
While the mom and dad snooped around they found out their house use to a funeral home. One day in the movie the kids were playing hid and seek well we know how that turned out some kids saw something and the little girl hid upstairs and fell through the floor. When everyone came up there to pull her out the found photos and a box inside the box was another little box with weird things in them. From then on they went and tried to find research out about the house. They learned there was a boy that lived there in the funeral home with the older man who owned it. He was a medium and always performed a ceremony for families whose loved ones passed away. But some bad things happened and they let something bad out. They also found out that in the cemetery a lot of bodies went missing. When Adam went in for a treatment he meant a revenuer who told him the reason why they can see the dead is because they are closer to death and unhealthy. At the end of the stories he finds out the bodies that were stolen were cursed to be awake forever because the small things in the box were eyelids and w/ out their eyelids they see forever. So Adam had to burn the house down to make them go to sleep.

Chris Brown and Rihanna Case

America’s biggest sweetheart and rising star attacked??? The shocker is by her boyfriend, who captured America’s teen’s hearts, Chris Brown. Rihanna is born in Barbados and started in the music industry in 2005 signing on with Def Jam Records and under the protection of music producer and recorder, Jay-Z. Her first album to be recorded is “Music of the Sun.” And she is the first Barbadian woman to ever receive a Grammy Award. Following her album “A Girl like Me” in 2006, “A Good Girl Gone Bad” in 2007-2009, and now she is working on her fourth album “Dark Angels” which will be introduced sometime in 2009. There’s no doubt Rihanna is the next big star.
Chris Brown captures a lot of the teen’s hearts in America. He started out getting recognized only at age 16 (now 19) and he left school to start with his music. His first album was released in 2005 with the hits like “Run it!” and “Excuse me Miss.” And in 2008 released another album.

The scary thing is we would have never pictured it to be like this. Just hours before the Grammy Awards the police got a call from a woman on alleged assault against her. When they got there they were shocked to find out it was the talented singer, Rihanna. She said her boyfriend, Chris Brown, and her got into a major fight which led to a brawl and when she called he left. There are a few reasons to why this happened, one was to be linked that he was mad because she gave him a STD and the other was because Chris was having an affair. Whatever it was it caused a lot of controversy considering Chris once sat down with Tyra Banks and confessed that he would never lay a hand on a girl because his mother was a victim of abuse. Doublemint gum dropped his commercial just right after the allegations of the assault and his record label thought about it. Chris and Rihanna split apart for a while but now they are said to be back together and living in P Diddy’s house right now. A lot of people supported Rihanna and told her not to go back to him and also they said that it would ruin her image. For now they are on the down low til Chris Brown’s court date. For now we’ll just have to see what happens.

Gay Marriage in Iowa?

Some people are for gay marriage and some just can’t plain out stand gay marriage. My outlook on this is what is really the big deal about all this? They say some people are just born to love the same sex. I say as long as you’re happy then what really is the huge deal about it? I try to look at it from their side and see that why is it ok for people to be in love with the opposite sex and get married, but not their own sex. Yes it says in the bible that gay marriage is not accepted, but then again God plans everything for a reason. So if that’s the case why do people like the same sex? Recently as of April 24, 2009 gay marriage was allowed in the state of Iowa. The ban first happened in 1998 when Hawaii first came up with this “issue”. On April 3, 2009 the issue came up again in Iowa over a ruling and it was finally Ok’d on April 24. Same sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, Iowa, and Connecticut. A lot of people are already trying to change this happening for Iowa for a lot are not happy with it. Which I still don’t understand what the big problem is? When scientist went to study this subject they used twins. It was hard thought because twins only share 50% of their genes.