Albie

I went boogie-boarding on the beach today. I liked it. It was fun. Going over the waves on a boogie board was like flying!

I met a new friend, Max. He was very nice. He knows how to boogie board very well.

Noah

The waves were very gentle, gentle like a sheep at the start, but they became rough, so it was in like a sheep and out like a wolf!

I felt good. I met a new friend, Max. He was nice. He will be in my class.

Albie

We got a new dog to look after in our house. Her name is Mona. She is very nice and kind. She looks out for us.

Noah

Today, we learned how to make the drink Jamaica. The Jamaica is made with dried hibiscus flowers. You take the flowers and add water in a saucepan, and then you boil them for a few minutes. That makes a hibiscus tea. You add sugar. You had the sugary tea to a pitcher of water, then you strain the flowers out and you put that in the refrigerator. And then you have Jamaica! It’s sweet with a tiny hint of bitter. I like it.

For dinner, we had salmon, beans, mango salsa, bread and butter and Jamaica. 

The mango salsa is made with local mangos and cilantro. The mango salsa is good. It’s sweet and kind of bitter. 

Albie

I think the Jamaica tastes a little sour and quite sweet. It’s a little tart. It’s very dark red. As red as a rose.

The mangos were very yellow, yellow as the sun. The mangos tasted tart-y too. 

Noah

We drove to Puerta Vallarta today and had brunch there. We had chocolate pancakes covered in chocolate sauce, and they were very, very, very, very, very, very, a million times very good!

We also had a taster of three different Prehispanic drinks. That means drinks that the Native people drank before the Spanish came. They were made from water, sugar, corn and cocoa. They tasted kind of chocolatey. One was really good, one was in the middle, and one tasted like water with sugar. I liked the one called Tascalate (the chocolatey one) best.

The waiter told us that the legend of the drinks is that warriors would drink them before going to war, and they would give them special powers and make them very strong!

Albie

I liked the Tejate and Tascalate drinks the best. The Tascalate tasted nutty.

Albie

We found a vinegaroon when we arrived at our new house! It’s a type of creature that looks like a scorpion, but it’s not. We learned that we really can’t forget to check our shoes! If you leave your shoes outside, you have to check that there isn’t a vinegaroon or a scorpion or a child of the earth in them!

Noah

A vinegaroon is smaller than a scorpion, and their tail isn’t like a scorpion’s tail. Its tail isn’t segmented like a scorpion, and they have different looking stingers. We aren’t even sure if the vinegaroon had a stinger at all.

Vinegaroons and scorpions are arachnids, and have more legs than insects.

Albie

There was a dog called Doris at the last campsite we stayed in. I tried to feed her but I couldn’t. The water there was very dangerous.

Noah

We travelled the last day to Sayulita, where we will live for four months. Everything along the way was every single shade of green you can think of. As many shades of green as there are stars in the galaxy!

Noah

We met a new friend. He’s called Mateo. He will be in 2nd grade with me in our school in Mexico. We went to look at crabs and sea urchins with him. We saw lots of them. Mateo is really fun.

Albie

When we went to the beach with Mateo it was very fun.

Albie

The journey here was really fun. The beach is very awesome. The waves are actually very dangerous. The not-dangerous waves crashed us and we tried to escape. When we played dominoes, I won every time. The sunset was so orange it was basically the sun, and it was also purple. It was very relaxing watching it.

Noah

We are at a cool place. The waves have rip tides. They could knock you down and you would pop up in the middle of the ocean. Albie and I ran around and tried to escape the waves. The sunset was as orange as lava.

Noah

We are camping on the beach for two nights. The beach is really fun, and the water is warm but not too warm. We found a lot of coral and seashells. There were shells that looked like party hats, and shells that looked like mouths without teeth.

We played in the ocean and I got collapsed by a wave. It was very fun. After I got collapsed by a wave, we went to get a late breakfast. We had guacamole and chips and the guacamole was in an edible bowl. It was kind of smooth with little bits of tomato in it.

Albie

We found a bunch of cool shells. The ocean water was very salty and warm. The waves were so powerful. It’s very hot. The water is right by the camping area. The stones are very hard. The ocean is very blue and the mud is very brown. The sand is super beige. The shells are purple and a bunch of colours.