France Switzerland & Holland

On Friday morning at 4am we drove in the car to Edinburgh. Then we had to get dressed and take our suitcases to the shuttle bus to go to the airport. When we got there we went through customs and did all that stuff. Then we had to wait in the departure lounge for about an hour - we played cards and sat and sat and sat, then Matt played on Dad's phone and we did the sudoku puzzles. We finished it.When we got to France we caught a train to our hotel and then we walked around the city and had a look. The next day after the next day we climbed the Eiffel Tower to the second floor - you had to get a lift to the top floor and we didn't pay for the lift. I liked climbing the steps but we had to stay at the top and Mum explained all these boring details to us - I just wanted to go down again.
When we got to zermatt in Switzerland we played in the snow. The snow felt soft, fluffy, crunchy when you step on it when it's been there for a couple of days. That day we hired our snow gear and got everything ready. Our coach said he'd be coming at 9am to the hotel to meet us except it got changed because the snow fields didn't open until 9.30am. So we got our ski passes while we waited and Matt and mine were free.

The first day we did boring stuff and I got sick of it by the end but the next day we did more fun stuff - we went down the mountain to the junior slope where we did all the boring stuff - I don't think I stacked it. The third day we did heaps of fun stuff - we went down a new slope and I only stacked it two times - it was pretty hard and very long. Matthew went head first into the soft snow when he fell. The last skiing day the clouds were really low on the mountain and it was so foggy we could barely see the ski slope in front of us. On another slope somewhere else that day Sam couldn't see the poles that marked the ski slope and he went through two poles on the same side and went right into the soft snow. It's really hard to get out of the soft snow because your skis are as long as your chest.

On the slope that we started on the second last day we went down both the slopes without stopping at the junior slope. When I was skiing I got so boiling and it was fun.

When we went to Holland we went on a hop on hop off boat cruise along the canals. We hopped off and went to this TunFun place. It's sort of like Kid's Paradise (in Perth) except it's got different things to do. It's got these little car type things that you sit on and turn the handlebars from side to side to start moving. There's lots of traffic lights to stop at. We had heaps of fun.
These are some of the words I've learnt from being in different countries. France: merci - thankyou, pardon - sorry, Bon jour - hello, au revoir(pronounced o revwah)- goodbye, bon soir (pronounced bon swuh) - after 6pm you have to say bon soir. German: gutten tag or tag it dosen't matter - hello, Danke - thankyou. Most of the people in Holland spoke French or English.