Christmas Trip to Dubai

By Porter Fairbourne

This year for Christmas break we went to Dubai.  So I was ready to go to Dubai.  We drove to the airport and we got in line and we got there really early so we had to wait. Everett bought some really gross Oreos. We finally got on the plane and then I felt so uncomfortable.  Well I did what I always do on planes, I fell asleep on my dads lap for the whole plane ride.  When we got to the Dubai airport and had to get in line.  We saw two people faint which was crazy! Then later that day, we went and hit the slopes which was pretty awesome. They had jumps and stuff and it was pretty steep for inside a mall. The mall were massive. We ate at Shake Shack a lot that week. It was the most mouth watering, stomach growling, hamburger place ever. We also went to a place I like to call Atlantis, I call it that because everybody else does and that's what it says on the sign. 
It's so cool, they have slides that go up hill and lazy rivers that are so fun they are more like rapids. We also went to a really big mosque.  It wass so cool, there were all of these gold leave poles and big chandeliers. That was fun. We had a really good time.     

Our Dubai Vacation

By Alta Fairbourne

 Let me say that Dubai reminds me of home. With skyscrapers as tall as Paul Bunyan and the same old restaurants like Subway, Mc Donald's , KFC, Wendy's, Pizza Hut etc. We were in heaven as we spent every little second at the biggest mall in the world it had every store you could think of including the biggest toy store in the world, a ice rink, indoor amusement park, Movie theater, A little kids place were you go through lessons to do what you want to do when your older and its called  Kidzania and its really big and expensive look it up.There is also another mall we went to that wasn't as big but it was still huge and it had a indoor ski hill.  This is were we went. It was super awesome because me and Everett got one piece ski suits. We all got on our matching ski equipment and hit the slopes (bunny hill). It was colder in there than we thought, and really slow ski lifts to the top.

Then we would skied down in three seconds. We didn't have gloves so our fingers felt like there were going to fall off. After a couple dozen runs our time was up and we had to leave. Right after we went to Shake Shack. The best food ever!  We all had super fun skiing and eating.  As we headed back to hotel,  my dad couldn't seem to get home. The roads kept sucking us back onto the freeway.  It felt as if it was taking hours,  even though we were so very close. Well, anyway, our hotel was called the Al Barsha Hotel Apartments and our hotel room was huge. It had a living room with a black couch a TV, and a coffee table with three lamp posts around it. Next to the living room was a dining table and the kitchen. The kitchen had a big fridge and a microwave also a oven and cupboards full of cups spoons plates etc. Next to the kitchen was a washing machine. That followed up to our rooms which both had a bathroom with a shower. The next day we decided not to go to the mall but to go to Atlantis. It is one of the biggest water parks ever. It was so super duper fun! Where we went on pitch black dark water slides down into a shark tank to super steep rides that you barely touched the slide. But I thought that the family rides were the best.  We headed up to the top not knowing what was ahead.  We all got in the huge tube which soon started down the slide with drop offs twists and turns and it seemed like the tube could easily go off track and we could all die. In the end all of us were laughing and smiling and saying, "let's go again!" but Little Everett was crying saying, "no way! too scary!"  We ended up going on the other family ride, that was way more scary. I was going backwards; I didn't know we were going to drop as we got closer the drop I started to scream, "turn me around! help! help! help!" My life flashed before my eyes as we dropped super fast and then went up the slope and back down it ended up so fun. But little Everett was crying saying, "way too scary!" but then we went again on both of them and this time Everett didn't cry. After that we split up, my mom and dad went on a ride we were to small for and we went on a different ride. My mom and dad didn't know what it was like as they stepped on a glass circle and a dome closed around them. Someone's voice said, "one. two. three." and the glass fell away from their feet and they dropped into the slide, shooting them up and up and up and then they went down and down and down. After that, my mom and dad were pooped as they went to get their clothes on and we went on more rides. We soon left and we went home taking us a half an hour due to my dads expert driving skills, if you know what I mean.
The next day we drove really far and went to church then we went to a park and rented a four person bike  (we managed to fit 5) and road along the boardwalk. Then we went to a big Mosque.The next day we went ice skating and saw a really cool fountain show. The we got on a long airplane home back to the old Kenya then I realized Dubai is the complete opposite of Kenya.

THE BEST PARTY ROCKEN FRIDAY EVER!!!!!!

Waking up, with a new beautiful day, knowing it was going to be THE BEST PARTY ROCKIN' FRIDAY EVER!

I was super ready for school because it was the last...for term. We did not learn anything, but how to watch two movies from morning to lunch.  After that it was an awesome school party.  I knew to not eat sugar for an other week because we had lots and lots of candy and junk food.  I still ate sugar at the next party, which was a girl in my class's birthday party.   It was the classic Braeburn girl party (everyone does the same thing),  at the White sands Hotel,  they always have the worst/meanest  people to look after you and they never let you do anything fun. You always have to do the stupid games they want to do.  Its still kind of fun because all my friends were there and we got to swim in the pool and have lots of food and sodas.  I also learned an important lesson,  never bully.  I learned that because the birthday girl was getting bullied by an inpatient boy who pushed her and she fell down the slide and she hit her head badly.
  Well... I guess that's it... not that exciting... oh wait, my birthday party!  How could I forget!
I invited Reiss, Jake, Philip, Zharan and Carol. I had the best GUYS NIGHT OUT ever.  That's right,  guys night.  We went to the movies (cloudy of a chance of meatballs 2).  Then we went bowling,  then we went to eat at Roberto's.  That's were I got my t-shirt that's says, "Awesome Everett Worlds Best Trainer" from Ben and Natasha. I love it!  Luckily Reiss and Jake got to sleep over.  We stayed up all night and played with my new toys, we watched TV and I even took them to the gym to train them.  After all that, the next day we had a hang over.  It was a really great birthday!

I'm Bringing Suga Back

By Porter Fairbourne

So I started up the one and only Suga Rush again. If this name sounds unfamiliar, than your ether really old or just a looser. This is a company that I started with some friends in Hobble Creek Canyon. I was selling it at our school for about a week until the unthinkable happened,  the principal  himself told us that we could not continue Suga Rush so our company was finished after only one week. The worst part was, I barely got out with 100$.  Yet it came to pass, that here in Kenya a new market approaches.  A new school, so I got a sales team together and they were ready to sell. The only problem was that I only had a little bit of the ?secret? ingredient that my mom gave me for my birthday.  People loved it, they were buying it like crazy.  Before I knew it, I was out.  Luckily, I already had lots more of the secret ingredient coming from America and I got back in business quick. The really cool thing is the kids love it. I've been making tons of money, and my Dad says that maybe one day he will buy my company from me!

 

Camping trip

 As soon as school got out went camping for three days.  It was a really fun camping trip.  It was full of excitement and fun. When we arrived,  it was around one p.m. and it was really hot.  The beach was beautiful and the ocean was even more beautiful.  It was way out and you could see the coral stretch out really far.  We started to set up our tents as my dad blew up our stand up paddle board, then he and drove away and left us there (my dad doesn't like to miss work).  I stayed in a tent with all of the girls, Natasha, Lorna, Tatyana, and Philine. I realized not to ever stay in a tent with  a bunch of girls.  All night it was all chit chat and gossip while I was trying to sleep in the hot humid air, swarmed with groups of mosquitos.  To make matters worse, it started to rain! The rain started to come in our tent, and some of the girls when into the boys tent, but they had water in their tent. I was so happy it was morning.  When morning came we had breakfast.  Quickly we got on our swimsuits then we got blocked up before the sun shone on our faces and burnt our cheeks. As every one got a boogie board and swam out to the waves me and Everett were left without a board so we got in the ocean and then the dogs from our campsite got in the water and started to swim with us. They were jumping on our shoulders and licking our faces. Soon enough, my mom came to get me to help her bury treasure for a treasure hunt.  As we were putting out the clues some dude asked us what we were doing and we said we are burying treasure for a treasure hunt for the kids.  As we walked back to our campsite every one was back from boogie boarding and we had lunch. After lunch we did the treasure hunt. We gave them the first clue, which soon led them to the treasure. Once they figured out where it was, everyone started to dig.  It wasn't there!  The dude must have dug it up and took it!  We were all really sad because we all really would have loved the treasure (treasure=Rainbow belts candy). We all went back to the ocean. After that,  another one of our friends showed up, everyone was happy, then we played down by the banks. Then we got the idea to go down to these coral caves where there was a small pool of ocean water deep enough to jump off the coral cliffs into.  So then we all started to jump.  As the tide started to come up we had to go back to the campsite. My mom then got out all of the Scoobys  (like boondoggle) then we all started to Scooby.  Lorna soon went and asked these other campers if we could use their hammocks, and they said yes so they started to swing in the hammocks.  It got violent as they started to lay in the hammocks and swing into each other. We all started to get bored so we thought about a beach walk to build up our appetite for dinner. But me Natasha and Melia didn't want to go so we went on the paddle board. As we went we sang camping songs.  My mom noticed us and then she and Natasha's mom wanted us to come back because we were to far away. On our way back there was a group of Kenyan teenagers in the water.  We passed and they started to follow us.  As they started to hold on to the back of the paddle board screaming,  "give us ride! give us ride! give us ride!" We started to tell them no, and they started throwing sand at us and kept following us no matter what we said.  Eventually, Natasha's mom came up to them and started to scream at them in Swahili then they all left. We got out of the water as quick as we could then hurried to shower. After the shower we were surprisingly really late for dinner. We had a bomb fire and a dance competition.  We also made s'mores.  Most of the kids had never had a s'more.
I soon got really tired and went to sleep but this time in my moms tent. Early that morning I went paddle boarding with my mom.  After lunch my dad came and and picked us up, it was time to go home.  It was a really fun trip.  Its weird that its december and Christmas time because it doesn't feel like it at all!

  

Mombasa Rounders Tournament

This Saturday me and my rounders team went to a school called Aka Khan went to compete in the Mombasa rounders tournament. We were going to play all of the teams we all ready played to see who would win the league. We arrived at Aga Khan at 8:00 am. The first team we played was Jeffry. We were fielding first they ended up with 4 rounders. It was our tern to bat we ended up with 10 rounders we won the game. The next team we played was a team I forgot their name but they beat Aga Khan so we new they would be hard to beat . But we beat them too, so two down two to go. The next team we played was Oshwall. They had really bad sports man ship they were calling our team stupid and our coach stupid and when we went to shake there hands for a good game they said no I'm  not shaking your hand then we gave them three cheers and they laughed. But we ended up winning anyways. Our last game was against Aga Khan they won us before so we were really scared. We were bating first we had good bating but we ended up with 7 rounders we went into the field as it was their turn to bat. they ended up with 6 rounders. We all started to scream like mad because we one the league. Our team won last year too so the trophy was still at our school. We ended up leaving at 2:00 pm it was a very long day out in the sun.

Kenyan Christmas Tree

By Porter Fairbourne

Once upon a time there was a Fairbourne family who needed a Christmas tree so they went to Haller Park (its kinda like a zoo with lots of trees and grass and water and stuff )  So they asked a worker where they could cut a tree down. He showed us the way. I was riding in the tuk tuk (he would transport the tree to our house. The worker was in the car with my family, leading us the way and then we stopped. I got out of the tuk tuk and we walked into the forest. We saw the biggest Charley Brown Christmas tree ever. Then we told the worker we want that one and he went up and with four big saw motions he cut down the tree. Then he lifted it up and put it on his shoulder and carried to the tuk tuk and put it into the back.

We all got into the car and the tuk tuk followed us home.  A hour or so later we started putting lights on it that our friend  brought from the US. So we got them on and they looked so good for about 2 minutes.  When they turned off apparently the flow of electricity was different here so they burned out. So mother went out to the store and bought some lights here. She put them on and it took a while to get them to work and then to stop twinkling (she hates twinkling lights) then we hung stuff on it and it looked wonderful.  We opened the doors to the balcony to let some air come in and the wind blew the Christmas tree over.  The water from the
tree was everywhere.  The ornaments fell off the lights turned off.  By then my mom was to tired to do it all again, she didn't even want to come out of her room.  We were all kind off bummed, but my mom set it up the next day while we were at school and we all lived a Merry Christmas.