Kidderminster

The other day we went to Cadburys (yes, chocolate) World with my aunt Mary, my uncle David and my cousins Reuben and Rachel. We had a great time and I’m not going to eat chocolate for at least a week now. At Cadbury’s, the samples they give are not mini, but full-size! And the chocolate they were selling at the store was really cheap, I bought 4 chocolate bars for about a $1.25. Some of the things we saw were tacky but it didn’t really matter when there was free chocolate to be had.

England

Hello we have been in England for about a week now and we've been having a great time with all my british aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents etc.

We spent the first three or four days with my dad's sister Helen and her family in Murcott near Rugby. We went walking a lot, drank lots of tea, ate lots of toast and saw some scary cows.

On Sunday we had a family reunion, then on Tuesday we left for my Aunty Mary's house and will be staying with her for most of the week we have been having a great time all week playing with her two kids, we went for a great walk up Clee Hill and hopefully sometime this week we will go to Cadbury World.

Clee Hill

Our rental car (nicer than the last I think.)

For more photos vist my parents blog.

Iceland

Well, we have just spent three days driving through the Icelandic country. We drove all the way from the south end to the top of the country, we had tons of fun once we got our car. We saw loads of cool things like volcanoes, lava fields, geysers, hundreds of waterfalls and thousands of sheep. Some of my favourite things were… When we hiked up a mountain way up north, went swimming in completely geothermal hot tubs, (In Iceland all their hot water comes straight from the ground so there is no effort to conserve it, in the hot-tub there were two pipes, one that had a constant flow of water coming in, and one with a constant flow of water going out.) and walking up a volcano. I also learned that Icelanders like three types of chips (crisps) only, Salt, Sour Cream and Onion, and Paprika. I made an iMovie about Iceland but I could not get it on my blog(I will keep trying though) so for now, here are some photos.

Our Car

My dad in the Blue Lagoon

Our Hike

Inside a Volcano

Car Troubles in Iceland

Well, because we had to take a different flight and because it arrived at midnight, our car rental agency was not there to pick us up and now we are in Iceland with no car and its all very confusing because we do not speak Icelandic (The Icelandic kids are back to school already!) But it is all okay because we are in a foreign country!

Boston

Hello everyone this is my first post on the road. We flew from Winnipeg to Toronto first but then our flight from Toronto to Boston was delayed and we missed our flight from Boston to Iceland. Luckily when we got to Boston there was a guy waiting for us with tickets to Iceland the next day, reservations for two rooms at the Hilton and vouchers to buy supper and breakfast.  The next morning we even had time to take the subway into the city and walk around Quincy Market and the North End. Here are some photos

Sam

Welcome

I realized that I have not said on my blog, what my blog is about, so for those of you who are wondering, this blog is about a trip my family is taking this year. We will be traveling through a small portion of the world we will be living out of our backpacks for a year. My parents and my sister also have blogs and hopefully I will have links to them on my site soon enough, I hope you will all read my blog, I will try to make posts regularly.

Sunglasses

Here is a photo of the sunglasses I will be using during our trip.

17 days!

We leave for Iceland in 17 days!

We’ve been packing, cleaning  and planning like crazy.  I just got back from camp Stephens.  I was there for two weeks and I had a great time but now my summer holidays are over, we are working to get ready and our holidays will start again when we leave.

I can’t wait!