Monday 30 of April

Hello, today is our last day here so we want to take advantage to it¡... we went early to the caverns, because we want see more than yesterday. 
I took lots of pictures of the differents caverns. The guide explained all god and easy to understand. 
All the caverns are of limestone- a sedimentary rock compose of calcium carbonate(CaCO₃)- and the water has change the rocks. The limestone in contact with water is transformed into calcium bicarbonate.   
The water in contact with limestone formed a tipe of landscape: the karst. 
The process that produce that is weathering, more specifically, chemical wheathering. 

Peter with a stalagmite

In the caverns there are many stalactites and stalagmites. The stalactites are formed in the roof of the cave by filtration in the cave of mineralized water being deposited (a process of dissolution). The stalagmites are formed in the soil by the deposition of the mineralized water in the ground( a precess of precipitation). Also there are columns, that are the union of a stalagmite and a stalactite. 
The caverns are formed by a process of dissolution, and are big spaces in the rocks. In this National Park, there are some that are big and others that are smaller. 
The roads inside the caves are wide and comfortable. It has posters explained the things good.
In these caves there are enormous deposits of gypsum. The limestone was impregnated with petroleum, whose descomposition by bacteria produces hydrogen sulfide, which reacts with oxygen and water to produce sulfuric acid. This acid dissolves the limestone like sugar, and the result is the frmation of calcium sultate (gypsum).

Sunday 29 of April

We get up this morning late, at eleven. We has breakfast and then we ordered the caravan. In the afternoon we went to the caverns and we started to explore, to get some of them you have to bend down or crawl, although most can be reached on foot. There is also an elevator for those people who don´t want  to walk. We had to pay 7$ Rebecca and me, and Peter had to pay 12$. 
I was reading some posters of the caves and the mountains, desert,...
It´s interesting¡¡
This night we´re going to see the "Bat Fly". It has to be impresionant, but I can´t take pictures, we can not carry with phones, cameras,...
The guide explained to all the group-something like twenty people- why the bats do that, the things we have to do, how should behave,...
Was incredible, it is unfortunate that we couldn´t take pictures... 
We arrived to the camping- it is more than 29 km of the National Park- at twelve and we slept because tomorrow we are going to do an excursion with a guide. 

Saturday 28 of April

Hello, this morning I had to woke up very early, at 6 a.m. We needed to prepare the things in the caravan: the food, the suitcases,...
We began the journey at ten in the morning, the trip will take us more than seven hours.
We were a little tired when we started so we sing some typical songs of Texas, and when it was bored we sing actual songs.
During the travel I searched information about the national park:
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is full of archaeological treasures. Is in Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The 113 caves beneath the surface of the Chiuhuahuan Desert have huge speleothemsand chambers accesible. It covers an area of 189.2 km2 and since 1930 it is a National Park .Is a set of caverns formed by sixty million years ago as the result of the actionof water in limestone. The stent of the park couldn´t be determinated. 
Over 300 metres deep and several rooms, some of them of a huge wide. Have also many stalactites and stalagmites of various shapes and sizes. In the caverns abound mices and other rodent species.
The park is named as the Czech city of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad in German). In the evenings more than 400.000 bats leaves the caves. 
We stop at lunchtime for eat something and take a rest. Then we continue the trip.
We arrive to the city of Carlsbad at ten in the night. We search for a camping and then we dinner and we started to sleep. 

Friday 27 of April

Today I woke up so happy because I hace four days without school. The monday and the thursday we don´t have to go th the school. 

The teachers glad us the mini- vacation because they didn´t put homeworks. 

Back at home, Julia and Joseph were discussing abput something I didn´t understand. Iwent up the stairs quietly to not interrupt them. I started talking with Grace in the phone. This weekend we were planing to go to RiverWalk. 

At seven in the afternoon the parents cited us in the living room. Rebecca and I went and we sit in the chairs. They started with: "You are goning to do a trip..." I couldn´t imagine a think like that, because that I think was the discusion before. We´re going to Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Also we go with the uncle of Rebecca, Peter, in a caravan of one of his friends. It has four beds, a kitchen, a small bathroom,... Is llike a house with wheels. 
We pack the suitcases together, I put lot os clothes, a camera, the laptop, the mp4,... We have more than 650 kilometres to do¡¡¡
We will share the costs between the three, it makes cheaper the trip.
I´m impatient, I wanna start just now. 

Sunday 22 of April

Today I´m going to a grill of the friends of Rebecca. The rest of the family go too. 
There was to many friends-we were more than thirty people. She introduced me to more frieds: Sarah, Emily, Joshua, MAdison, William,...
Was very funny, Grace went too. 
In the afternoon, I went to house early than the others. I watched a film in the TV. 

Saturday 21 of April

Today I woke up and I has breakfast at the house of Grace. In the morning we went to the pool of her uncle, because were hot.
We stayed there all the morning and we ate some macaroni that did the girlfriend of the uncle. Ummm, was delicious...
In the afternoon we went with the brother of Grace to the cinema again. We wanted to see "The hunger games", JAcob has read all the colection, the three books.
I want to read the books, but first I´m going to watch the film.
The film was incredible, amazing,...  I like it a lot¡¡ :D

Friday 20 of April

Hello, today in class we did a proyect in technology. Was very fun.

In home I did the homework and Grace explained me some more words of Italian. Also she told me some phrases of italian people.

After that we went to the park with the bikes. We made more than ten kilometres.

In the night I slept at the Grace´s house.

Wednesday 18 of April

Today I woke up, I had breakfast and I went to school. In class Grace and me told about what we want to do this weekend, she asked me if I wanted to go with she to RiverWalk. We need to take the bus to go there but isn´t very expensive. 
In the break we went to the school´s library because we need to choose one book and read it. I choosed one of the history of the city. 
In the afternoon I read the book after doing the homework. 
The history: 
The first spanish settlement of San Antonio began with the Martin de Alarcon expedition and the establishment of the San Antonio de Valero Mission. The viceroy, at the instigation of Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, made the suppression of illicit trade from Louisiana. The viceroy gave formal approval for a halfway mission and presidio in late 1716, and assigned responsibility for their establishment to Martin de Alarcón.  On May 1, on the San Antonio River, the governor founded Mission San Antonio de Valero (later famous as the Alamo). San Antonio de Béjar Presidio, the center of Spanish defense in western Texas, was founded by Martín de Alarcón on May 5, 1718, on the west side of the San Antonio River. On February 14, 1719, the Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo made a report to the king of Spain proposing that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands, Galicia, or Havana to populate the province of Texas. San Antonio grew to become the largest Spanish settlement in Texas. In 1845, the United States finally decided to annex Texas and include it as a state in the Union. This led to the Mexican-American War. 


The history is very interesting, I needed to find more information because the book is short and not tells all. 

Monday 16 of April

Hello, today I think will be a marvelous day because... I have an excursion¡ We´re going to a museum: The Alamo.
On the east side of Alamo plaza is the most famous place in Texas because is where 189 defenders fell on March 6, after repeated attacks by Mexican General Santa Anna´s army. Originally named Mission SAn Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years. Construction began on the present site in 1724. 
We´re going to be here until the four in the afternoon.

That´s the web of the site: http://www.thealamo.org/main/index.php

The excursion was interesting and funny. The guide explained all very clear.

When I arrived to house I went with Grace to McAllister Park: she´s going to teach me how to speak Italian.
We started for the regards, in Italian is "ciao" what in english is "hello". The Italian isn´t very difficult, for me is easy because I know a family from Italy. 

Sunday 15 of April

Hiiii, today when I woke up I had a surprise... Patrick and Peter were here¡¡ They are the brothers of Julia. 
Patrick (the smaller of the family) is a magician, and Peter is a writer. Both of them are funny, and they get along very well together, they complement the other and is as if they could live without the other. 
They live in the same house. All the family also was surprised...
In the morning there was a familiar reunion, because they weren´t together for a long period of time.
At four pm. Patrick showed us some tricks, between them, he did the rabbit in the hat, of course¡
Then he taught us how to do some of they, was very very funny, we couldn´t stop laughing.
At night, Emma, John and their sons returned to their houses, this house is very quiet without the rest of the family.

Saturday 14 of April

Hey... this week was wonderful, the parents of Julia were here all the time. 

In the afternoons, we took the bikes, the skates,... and we walked by the roads. They spoke a lot but they aren´t bored, and they´re enjoyable. The told me some thing about their life, for example, the met at a restaurant in their first date, but they had to leave it because John forgot the money and Emma has to use her money to bought a hamburger for each one. After that John thought that she won´t be with he but Emma kissed he and they started to be boyfriends. The history was incredible and they still so much in love from that day. 

Emma is very friendly and is a wonderful gradma for the kids. The triplets love she, and also I. Emma is a splendid cook, her food is marvelous. 

John know so much of sports, specially of rugby and baseball. He spoke a lot of the best baseballs players of the league. He also explained me the rules of the rugby. He loves the rugby, when he was young he played at the high school. His team of rugby are the Philadelphia Eagles, and the team of baseball are the Houston Astros. 

The friday John took Rebecca and me to a big parking with the car, we didn´t imagine taht he would teach us to drive. In EE.UU. you can drive a car from the 16 years old.  John is a fantastic teacher, he have patience. We stayed in the parking for three hours and then he invited us to eat a pizza.

Today we went to the zoo. The triplets like the zoo because for they that is a safari, like be in an authentic savannah. Joseph also likes because it´s very educative and he loves the animals. Joseph know so much things about so many tipes of animals. Rebecca loves draw the differents animals with their habitats. Julia don´t like the zoo because it is so hot, and sometimes it smells so bad. The grandparents likes also the animals and they took a lot of photos.

Harry in the aquarium

We stayed in the entrance really early in the morning because usually there are many people. We watched all the shows we could and all the animal, of course. The zoo also have an aquarium, it´s spectacular¡¡¡ 

Rebecca drews an elefant, the lion,... She gave me one draw. 

I took lot of pictures for my family so they can see it. 

We arrived to home at seven in the night. While Julia and her mom did the diner I spoke with my family and I showed all the pictures. 

Today was an amazing day...

See you tomorrow.

Draw that Rebecca gave me

Saturday 7 of April

Hiii, today Emma and John visited us. They are the father and the mother of Julia. The live in Illinois, in Chicago.
They were surprised to meet with me but they are friendly. They have more than sixty years but I don´t know more because they don´t say nothing. 
They have two more sons: Patrick and Peter, both smaller than Julia. I hope they can visit us soon. 
In the afternoon, Emma showed me and Rebecca how do cookies. It was delicious¡¡ 
We also walked to the park while John told lots of histories about his life. 
This night they sleept here.

Friday 6 of April

Today we´re going to do the easter´s eggs. Then Rebecca and me we´re going to hide them by the road, and then the children of the road will looking for them. Win who has more at the end of the morning. Also there are some contests to win it.
I tested one and the chocolate was...incredible¡¡
I liked the morning, the triplets arrived to home really excited because they won more than twenty eggs and they finished in the third position.
I took a lot of pictures of the eggs because all were differents and amazing.

In home, we cleaned and ordered all the house because tomorrow the grandfathers are goning to visit us. =)

Thursday 5 of April

Hello everyone¡¡ This morning Grace and me wanted to go to the cinema to watch "Titanic 3D", because we love that film. We has to wait until the three in the afternoon because the film starts at that hour. The film takes more than three hours. We are goning to watch the film in 3D in an enormous screen.
At half past two we arrived to the cinema. There wasn´t too much people so we bought the tickets and we had to wait more than 15 minutes to buy the popcorn and the cola. Jacob (brother of Grace) came too. The film started at 3:15pm.
In the afternoon I prefered t stay in home. I finished reeding the book. It was very interesting.

Wednesday 4 of April

Hii, I woke up angry this morning because Rebecca and her friends woke up at seven and started screaming and running by the house. They woke up whole the family. In the night, Noah came to my bed and slept with me because he was scared. The parents of Rebecca were angry with the girls. They made the breakfast and ate it, and then they leave the house. All of us we could sleep, and we did it until the lunch time.
I had a shower and I helped to Julia to bath the kids.
After lunch Julia, the triplets and me went to North Star Mall. Julia was looking for a special tipe of tea. She loves the teas. We also visited some shops, and she bought some jeans for the children. 

Tuesday 3 of April

Hello, today is a special day because... is the birthday of Rebecca¡¡¡ From six in the morning she has sixteen years old. All the family woke up at six and we prepared the breakfast and all together took it to her bed. We woke up she screaming Happy Birthday¡¡ and Harry, Phillip and Noah jumped into the bed. 

Well, this afternoon we have a party, so this morning all went to buy the food, ballons,... I take advantage of the shoppings, and I bought a gift. Don´t say to her but is a set of T-shirt and a jeans, and also earrings. 

At 4pm we started to decorate the house, prepare the food,.. I dressed up at half past five, few minutes before the guest arrived. We were more than twenty people there. 

First we ate and spoke for two hours (more or less) and then she opened the presents. They gave her lot of clothes, shoes,... One friend gave her a turtle¡¡ Finally she blew the sails. 

Some of her friens will stay here for sleep. I meet with some and are nice. 

Rebecca likes my gift. 

Today was a great day, now  have to go bed, see you soon¡¡ 

Monday 2 of April

Hey ¡¡ This morning I didn´t woke up at six because I´m on vacation. Today I read more of the book that Rebeca borrowed me and she and me did the lunch because Joseph and Julia had to work. The triplets don´t have classes also, so we have to take care of them. They played all the morning to buildings. Rebecca practise the guitar because she has classes today. 
While the kids had a nap, we watched a comedy on the TV. We also made popcorn. 
When the parents arrived (at 4pm), I went with Grace to the library. She wants to ask for a book. Thata book is sold out for months. The library only has two editions, and if you want read it, you have to reserve it. She did, and now she has to pick up. 
At night, I spoke with my family by skype, and with Joseph and Julia. 

Sunday 1 of April

Today we woke up late. In the morning Joseph, the triplets, Rebecca and me went to walked around the park. The triplets were in bikes and Rebecca and me in skates. Rebecca introduced me to some friends. They were Ethan, Emma, Olivia y Ryan. All are very nice and friendly. I met with Grace too and I introduced to Rebecca. Grace is much better of her disease. We conversed until the lunch time. 
After lunch I met for have a picnic in the pool of her uncle. It was amazing, the pool was enormous (more than 20mx25m) and the water was incredibly transparent and clear. We spent all the afternoon there. The uncle also made us homemade pizza. My pizza was with tuna and ham.

Tomorrow we don´t have classes because is Easter. Great¡¡¡