Monday, April 18, 2011

1,000 VIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got 1,000 views on my most popular video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)
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I AM SOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Busch Gardens!!!!!!!

My family went to Busch Gardens Europe yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy we did because we hardly ever get to because we live so far away from it. But we're on vacation for Spring Break so we're really close! I'm not a roller coaster person(they terrify me) but I went on a lot of other fun stuff! I went on:
1.The Battering Ram(very end!!!! :))
2.The Flying Machine
3.Der(lol) Whirbelwind
4.That thing that's like the flying machine but on the ground near Der Whirbelwind(forgot what it's called)
5.The roller coaster in Sesame Street World(which was surprisingly intense, I can't believe tiny little kids like it)
6.Tradewinds
7.The Curse of DarKastle(LOVED IT!)my fave
8. Europe in the Air

In case you haven't been there before, here is what these things all are:
1. The thing that's like a ship that goes back and forth
2. It spins your car so you feel like you will hit the other cars and wall, this one is in the air
3. Those swings that spin around
4. Same as the flying machine except goes a lot faster and is on the ground
5. A roller coaster that is VERY short but fun
6. Cars that go around in a circle and kind of up and down FREAKISHLY FAST and smush you to the outside of the car :)
7. It's like a 4-D movie but you're in a car and it moves along a track. It's about this dude who lives in a castle and was cursed by a witch so he is a werewolf.  He killed his parents so he could take the throne and has a bunch of skeleton minions. But if he leaves the castle he will turn to ice, so he invites people over to dinner, turns into a wolf, and eats them. During the ride, you are the people who get invited to dinner, and the ghosts of the dude's parents try to help you escape. So you go through all these tunnels and rooms with 3-D screens and it's like you are in a movie. Skeletons throw knives and fruit at you, all while the dude tries to catch you. In the end you and the dude fall from the roof of the castle, then he turns into a wolf, makes his final attempt to eat you, but gets turned into ice and explodes. Yay!!!!!! That's basically it. I was actually very scared to go on this ride. Not because I thought it would be scary, but because I am claustrophobic, and the car and tunnels were kind of tight. But it was worth it, because it was really fun!
8. A 4-D movie that feels like you are in a plane flying over a bunch of sites in Europe. It was really cool. You saw the London Eye, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, etc.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

New Videos

I uploaded a lot of new videos recently.

That one is a video with ALL the music from Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon with screenshots. Believe it or not, it took forever to make!

That one is me playing the Camptown Races theme on my piano. I actually learned this from listening to the song played in Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon.








All these videos are music videos from Nancy Drew: Secret of Shadow Ranch.

Monday, April 4, 2011

More Nancy Drew music I can play

I learned two new songs on my flute. Here they are:
The Haunted Carousel: Miles
Danger on Deception Island: Dirge

Please note: Miles is really hard! I just figured out all the notes yesterday, but I can't play the whole thing through very smoothly at all, and I have to go about 20 times slower than the actual song. I'm still working on it, and will get a video of it in the future, but it wont be for a long time!

You might not see Dirge for a while either, because even though it's easy and I can play it really well, I have a lot of other songs I already scheduled to be uploaded before that one.

My next video will either be Trail of the Twister: Prairie on my flute or Last Train to Blue moon Canyon: Camptown on my piano. It will probably be Camptown.

Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries: Secret of Shadow Ranch

So I got the Nancy Drew game for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. I have an iPod touch, so I played it on that. I finished it last night. and it was pretty good! It was more of a book than a game, but still, it was fun. It was based off of the PC game Secret of Shadow Ranch, but it wasn't anything like the PC game. There were a lot of different plotlines in the different chapters, so basically, there were a lot of different mysteries to solve. And there were a lot of different culprits. The culprits were not anyone form the PC game, because they added a lot of different characters, but Dave, Tex, Shorty, and Mary were still in the game. One thing that was the same: the phantom horse still appeared at night. But nothing bad would happen, it would just scare the guests away from the ranch.

So that's the plotline, now for the actual gameplay. It was bassically just a book with a few minigames here and there. So you would read, and you might come across some words in different colors. The orange ones will give you a fun fact or a definition about the word that is colored. The green ones will give you a sound of the word that is colored. The red ones will give you a collectable, which will let you play a minigame in order to unlock a special thing(which I don't know what it is, because I didn't unlock any). The minigame is to make four words using letters from the collectable you found, because it will have a name like "saguaro" or somehting like that. There also are some pictures, and when you touch them it will show the picture move a little, and it will make a sound.

Every now and then, when something interesting happens in the book, it will give you a choice of what to do. What happens in the next section that you read will depend on what you chose. Sometimes, if you choose the wrong option(like you decide to jump off a cliff) then you will "die"(sometimes without the quotaions) and you can try again, and start over reading the section you (")died(") in.

Some of the options you choose will lead to mingames in the actual gameplay. There are two: horse racing and hidden object finding. For horse racing, you choose a horse(Bob, Ace, Clyde are there, and they added one: Ginger) and then you have to unscramble words in order to get a speed boost. For hidden objects, you just find ten of whatever you need to find in a picture. These can be tricky. The result of winning the minigames is uauaslly that you get a collectable.

Overall, this was a really fun game. It was only 2 bucks, and you can get it from the app store, so I encourage you guys to play it if you have an iPod touch, iPad, and/or iPhone.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Sign Language(continued)

I definetly should've posted this two days ago, but If you read my other post about sign language, you know that I am learning sign language. Well, on thursday I interpreted for my school's morning news show! It was awesome! Another cool part about it was that I got to interpret the day my best friend was an anchor! So we were on together! It was really cool, because I DIDN"T MESS UP AT ALL!!!!! :) Haha. I never even slipped up a little! Before the show started, I was actually really nervous. The hardest part was the fingerspelling. I had to go really fast when I spelled names. But I actually got a video of the show, too. Now I can keep it forever! :)