Allan Quartermain

Hi. This blog is on Allan Quartermain. Allan Quartermain is a adventurer.






Dad suggested it. I read it on the kindle app on my iPad. Dad said it was like Indiana Jones. I read the first book. It was called King Solomon's Mines.


Allan Quartermain met sir Henry and Good. And Sir Henry mentioned the quest because his brother was lost their. Allan had a map but never believed it. So they set off into the desert. With a servant named Umpoba.



Soon though they were dying of thirst, starvation, and the cold in the mountain. Eventually they made it to a lost land and savages were there. They almost killed them. But they convinced them that they were gods from the stars. So then they had to unseat the cruel king and escape with jewels from Solomon's mines.



Allan Quartermain was a good book. It was a little slow in the beginning but it got more intense. I thought that it was pretty good but not as good as Tarzan or Warlord of Mars. I thought he was like John Carter in the sense that they didn't see themselves as heroes. It made a whole new genre. Bye!

Bakugan

Hi. Today I'm going to tell you about Bakugan. Bakugan is another Japanese style toy.

My favorite Bakugan
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Bakugan are small round balls that open when you put its magnet on something. It's a lot like Pokemon or Beyblades. Bakugan is a game you can play. It's 2-4 players. The goal of the game is to get 3 gate cards. You can collect Bakugan too.

So first you need 3 Bakugan. Next you need 6 different cards. 3 gate cards and 3 ability cards. The Bakugans attribute or element can be Pyris,


Aquos,


Haos,


Darkus,


Ventus,


and Sub-terra.


In other words fire, water, light, dark, wind, and earth.

To play you roll a Bakugan onto a gate card and if it opens you add it's power printed inside it to the gate cards bonus for you're element and any ability card. The highest number wins the gate card. Those are the basics but they are a lot more rules too. Some cards especially ability cards can bend rules and do special things. There's also different Bakugan types. Like clear,


translucent,


pearl,


spinning,


jumping,


dice rolling,


double Bakugan,


double attribute,


split in half,


element wheel, and more. They are also Bakugan traps which are not just round and can change you're element.


Bakugan battle gear fits on the backs of some Bakugan and give it more power.



Bakugan are really cool. My brother plays it with me too. Bye!

Grandparents and the canal

Hie. Today I'm gonna talk about my grandparents. Also the canal.



So on Thursday Grandma and Grandad came over. They came at 4:00 and mom came at 5 and later we went to a resteraunt called Fat Tuesday's. It's a New Orleans style restaurant and I got my favorite meal so far there. It's a jumbo shrimp po boy. A po boy is a sub type sandwich from New Orleans and mine had Shrimp in it. I liked the shrimp better because it only had a thin layer of breading on it unlike buffalo wild wings when you can barley taste the shrimp. You could also really taste the ocean inside the shrimp.


On Friday Katie stayed home from school. She and Grandma worked on the garden outback. When I got home I mowed the front yard, side yard, and back yard for the second time by myself. When I was finished grandma made a awesome dinner with pork, garlic bread, green beans, and Mac and cheese. The Mac and cheese was the best because she always puts on a thick layer of cheese on the top. After we had cheesecake and watched Sherlock Holmes, a game of shadows. It was really good.



On Saturday we got up and started biking on the canal with our grandparents. This time we went farther up the canal. Which I liked much better because there's a whole lot more to see and mess around with. We saw a old mill, a lockeepers house, and a whole lot more nature too. After we went to a pizza place in Maryland and me, my mom, and Alex shared a crab meat pizza. At dinner we had a really good grilled steak, rice, and cheesy cauliflower cooked by Mom. We were not starving this weekend.



It had to end though. So now I'm writing this after grandma and granddad left on Saturday. Check out Sherlock Holmes too because I think it was better than the first movie. Bye!

Mission Impossible

Hi peoples today I'm gonna do a movie review. It is on the first mission impossible. Here it goes.



Last night we watched the first Mission Impossible movie. My sister, and my parents watched it with me. If you haven't heard of it it is a movie based off of an old tv show. It is a movie about a spy named Ethan. The actor is Tom Cruise.



It has a lot of action in it. It starts out with an agent named Jim who gets his mission on a plane. He puts together the mission impossible team and starts a mission. (Spoiler alert) But the plan goes wrong and soon everybody except Ethan dies in Prague. Soon he meets up with his contact and he finds out it was a mole hunt.



From there on he has to find the mole and stop the weapons dealer they are working with. Katie rates it on a scale of 1-10 a 9. I rate it a 7. So far Katie's favorite is Tremors. My top 3 are the Thing, Changeling, and Die Hard.



So mission impossible was really good. Maybe I'll watch the sequels too. Bye!

Planet of the Apes!

Hi peoples! Next up my spring break movie marathon. First up Planet of the Apes!






So recently I saw the oldest Planet of the apes and the newer 2001 version. First I'll tell you about the first movie. The first movie had a good plot that had action and just the right amount of mystery and creepiness. It started with their spaceship crashing on the unknown planet in nearly the year 4000. Only 3 men survived and soon the main character is thrust into a awesome battle with the rest of the native humans semi intelligent and mute for the truth and freedom for the human race.





Now for the second movie. The second movie started with a society much more advanced and the main character takes a one man ship into a electromagnetic storm. He crashes into the jungle and is soon caught in a slave raid by the apes. A girl ape finds him and sees his intelligence and buys him with a girl. Soon they escape into the jungle to find the truth.


So in conclusion I like the first movie better. Which I admit surprised me. For one thing I liked the terrain better which was the woods instead of the jungle but I guess it did make more sense for apes to be in the jungle. Also I didn't like how they changed it so much like the first movie was to good to change so much. The apes in the first movie were also more advanced with guns and crossbows. Also in the second movie the native humans could talk and were a bit smarter making that more like African Americans being slaves than having humans who actually acted like apes in the first movie. More ever the girl in the second movie almost never talked to him and then randomly kissed him in the end. Also the costumes in the second movie were better but somehow the costumes in the first movie were scarier. Lastly I liked the ending much better. I think having the hero find out the past in front of the wrecked statue of liberty is better than a goofy ending that didn't make much sense ( I won't spoil it ). Not to say it was bad just could of been better.



So I hope you see the planet of the apes. It really makes you think about today's society. Maybe I'll even see the movies after the first one and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Bye!

Epoch

Today I'm reviewing a game. It's called Epoch. It is about robots fighting each other.










So recently me and my sister have been begging my mom and dad for iPads. Luckily I called firsts. That's right I have an iPad maw ha ha!! But I really paid my dad 200 bucks for his old one.

I play epoch on the iPad. Epoch is post apocalyptic warfare between robots. Supposedly the world ended because it's present day but there's lots of robots for bodyguards and even butlers. So suddenly the omega tronics brand started fighting the guardian brand and shooting Down humans in the crossfire without caring. So you're the robot.

Here's enemies weakest to strongest.












You reboot but you don't know how long you've been out. All you're memory files are there except one. You're mission is to find Princess Amelia. I'm guessing she is a princess somewhere in europe but it doesn't tell you. You are probably the only working robot.



You are a guardian. She is in the cryo tower in the other side of the city. So you have to fight you're way there. You can buy different guns like an machine gun, a laser gun, a grenade launcher, a acid gun... You can also buy grenades, missiles, and special powers.


So I hope you buy. It it's fast paced, you can doge behind barriers and target enemies. Bye!