Summer!

It's summer for me now! School is out and no more homework! I am going to be going a lot of places this summer, but I will bring my computer everywhere, so I will have more time to finish the things that I needed to do. Like my typed walkthrough for Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge, and my video walkthrough for Zoo Vet 2: Endangered Animals(if I can get the installation to work, so no promises on that). And I have a lot of leftover videos from Kings Dominion still on my computer to upload. Also, check out my latest video! I think you guys will love it!

KINGS DOMINION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG IM GOING THERE TOMORROW! I'm going to ride the Anaconda, which will be my first upside down roller coaster! I'm really scared! But excited too! I will get some more videos at Kings Dominion, so stay tuned! Wish me luck! I will also ride some more roller coasters.

Moving

I moved on Saturday. Not very far. My dad lives in my school neighborhood, and my mom lived in a townhouse complex before, but my mom moved to the neighborhood now. Yay! I'm closer to all my friends now. But there is a problem. Well three actually.
The new house has no....
1. internet
2. hot water
3. cable

AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU LIVE WITHOUT THESE THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thankfully, my dad's house still has internet, so I'm using his as I type. And I have to take all my showers at his house. Meh. Imagine having to drive to another house whenever you take a shower. The dudes who are supposed to fix these things were supposed to come on Sunday. My mom calls them every day, and they always say they will come the next day, but they never do. I swear, if this goes on much longer, I am moving into my dad's house. For good.

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.

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! :)

Sign Language

A thing about me that I have never actually mentioned anywhere on the internet is that I am learning ASL(american sign language). Me and my best friend are actually learning together. There are deaf students at our school, so a lot of staff there know ASL.

Anyway, there was a bunch of contests at our school last month, with a bunch of different options students could choose for their parents to bid on. And one of them was lunch with an interpreter at school and a chance to interpret on the Morning News Show!

The Morning News Show is a little show our school does every morning. There are two anchors(6th grade announcers) and one of the interpreters. The anchors switch off every week. Every day they announce who they are, who the interpreter is, the date and time, their theme for the day, and then they say the Pledge of Allegience. After that there is a moment of silence, then birthdays and important announcements. Then the show ends.

Anyway, I bid for this and WON! I'm really excited because I get to interpret next Thursday! In exactly one week! And the awesome thing is...I'm interpreting the week my best friend is an anchor! We'll be on the show together! I can't wait! :)

Creepy Ice Cream Truck

Last year, there was this creepy ice cream truck that came to my neighborhood EVERY SINGLE DAY. The jingle was stuck in my head all the time, because the driver blared it so you could hear him coming from a mile away! It would just come, drive in circles around our very small neighborhood like twenty times, and then leave. Nobody ever got any ice cream. But he kept coming for three months straight: from April to July. Then he stopped coming, probably because either A. Nobody ever got any ice cream or B. It was the end of summer. I was out of town in August so I'm not sure if he was there.

Anyway, today me and my sister(who is a year older than me) were decorating for our stepsister's(who is my age) surprise birthday party. Her real birthday is on Friday. And all of a sudden, as we're putting up streamers, Taylor(my sister) says "Wait! Everyone be quiet!" So then, what do you know? We hear the jingle of the ice cream truck.

IT"S BACK!!!!!!!!!

Now my sister is convinced he's stalking us. I just hope he wont come EVERY SINGLE DAY like last year, because i don't want that jingle stuck in my head. You might be wondering why I don't take advantage of it and get ice cream every day. I'll tell you why.

1. The ice cream is over priced
2. its not that good anyway
3. the dude is kind of creepy

So yeah. Anyway, I gotta go! My stepsister is coming in a few minutes!

Rango

I saw the movie Rango last night. It's about a lizard who's cage falls out of his owner's car and then he is stranded in the desert. He finds a town with a bunch of other strange looking animals, and discovers that they are in desperate need of water. Then he makes up stories about him being from the west and living tough, and becomes the town's sherriff after he kills a hawk that had been terrorizing the town. Then he goes on a quest to retrieve the water, which they believed to have been stolen.

The rest of the plotline totally confused me. The mayor turned out to be evil, but I'm not sure exactly why. Then there was a rattlesnake who tried to kill Rango, but in the end he was on the good side. So I don't really get what happened.

It was a very strange movie, but entertaining and funny enough. Problem was, the movie theater we were in had no air conditioning, and there were a lot of people. It was so hot in there. And the plotline about being in the desert and needing water, of course, didn't help.

So...yeah.

My first blog!!!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!

Hey people! This is my first blog post so... forgive me if it's not very good. I just made this account now. I didn't go to school today because I had a doctor's appt. that took FOREVER and then my mom took me to her work. It's really cool! I'm there now actually, as I type. I'm also currently listening to Taylor Swift: Back to December and eating gummy bears. Anyway, I will start off telling you all a little about me.

I am a crazy fan of Nancy Drew. It's my favorite book series, and I am addicted to the games!!!!!! I have finished every single game, and I can't wait for the Captive Curse to come out. I don't play the Dossier series. I'm not a big fan of hidden objects games.

I have a youtube account: Madikinz123. I like to post different kinds of videos, with variety. I am currently working on a walkthrough for Zoo Vet. It's knid of slow going, though, because I have to use my mom's computer to record the walkthroughs. The screen recording software on my laptop is horrible.

I also have a website: nancydrewcomputergames.wetpaint.com. There I post reviews for Nancy Drew games, walkthroughs, puzzle cheats, easter eggs and death scenes. I am currently working on a walkthrough for Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge.

So I'm pretty busy. Aside from homework, practicing flute and piano, I have to finish a video walkthrough, for Zoo Vet, a text walkthrough for Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge(plus puzzle cheats), a death scene list for Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel, music videos for Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon, a funny video me and my friend are working on(an "interview" lol), and I also am writing a book, so I need to reserve time for that, too. Whew! Looks like I am not going to be able to post any videos with me playing Nancy Drew music any time soon. Oh yeah, I'm also trying to teach myself two songs,one piano, one flute. I don't like being busy. :(

A lesson for the future, all of you: Don't get into the habit of procrastinating.

-Maddie