Riley's Adventures

Tonight, I made my own Garfield comic: Make your own at  Professor Garfield .

Well, do you know how adults always want us, kids, to try different foods? I'll just say, as a kid myself, that I think that isn't true in most cases. Most of us, if not all of us, have probably at some point gone out to eat at a restaurant. And if you choose off the kids' menu, you most likely notice that all items on the kids menu are the same at all restaurants. This is weird, escpecially since adults want us to try different food choices. I think each restaurant should have their own kids' menu with food that fits their restaurant's personality. For example, a mexican restaurant should have a Mexican kids' menu, not just hot dogs and hamburgers. I guess every restaurant should have one or two american food items, for kids that don't like ranging their food choices. But still, have foods that fit the resturantpersonality. They want us to try, but also, lie.

Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you had a great Christmas. Let's hope! for a great 2013!

One more day until Christmas Vacation. Can't wait! Countdown

Isn't 12/12/12 such a cool date? If I'm right, this won't happen for another 88 years, when there is 01/01/01 (in 2101). Today, I think I will get close to all of my holiday shopping done. I haven't really started it yet, just a little bit. Today's Garfield Comic I thought was funny. Really, don't the spiders know to not bother Garfield? He always smashes them with coffee mugs, or newspapers. We are also going to the Ski Mountain we go to (we started last year) to get our pictures taken for our ID cards, and get sizings for our ski shoes.

 The Live Dresden Christmas Market Cam is so cool. View it by clicking  here .

I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. We are going to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving this year, as our family has had it there for the past 3 years. Maggie and I are bringing our piano to play the song Heart and Soul, or the one they have in the iPad mini commercial: I am playing the regular iPad's part, and Maggie is playing the iPad mini part. Because she is mini. Get it? Maggie is also playing "Home" by Phillip Phillips. She is a master at playing that song. Again, have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Iron Roost is a new restaurant in downtown Ballston Spa. They have waffles, pancakes, etc. I am ordering a waffle with Nutella on it. Giant paper clip!

Today, Maggie got bangs. "She looks older to me." Mom said. She also said she looks like that Carly Rae Jepson girl.  To me, she looks younger. I also think she looks like Adele a little bit. The first picture is before, and the second one is after.

I found this old iMac commercial on Youtube. I thought it was pretty funny:

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Last night, we went to the Circus Café with our friends from Germany, Bika, Rick, Shaun, and Devin. At the end for dessert, they came out with the biggest bowl of cotton candy. I woke up this morning, and found my iPod in my bed :-)

In Progress of Cutting it Down After we planted the new tree. Today, Dad and I went to get a new tree in our front yard since our old one we had to cut down because it was old.  The new tree has red leaves.  

Today, our tree is being cut down. It is old, 20 years or so. Dad said if we didn't cut it down, it could collapse on our house. It has been there every since we moved to Ballston Spa (when I was 2 years old). But we will replant a new tree there soon.

Last week, I found out I was Student Council president. I won by one vote. I hope to make good changes in the school this year. Next week, I will start to lead the Student Council meetings. I think I will be a great president this year.

Aunt Mari's wedding rehearsal was today. I planned where I will put my cameras, voice recorders, etc. I thought it would be a lot longer, but it was short. Then we had a picnic in Crandall Park in Glens Falls, catered by the Gourmet Cafe. Loved the meatballs! Tomorrow is the real wedding, and I'm looking forward to it. We will be having a great time. If I have time, I'll blog tomorrow night!!

Guppy, our new dog. Guppy, is a Boston Terrier and French Bulldog Mix. My mom first spotted him on PetFinder.com. And then, we decided to get him. He is a extremely playful dog, loves tennis balls. He snorts, sort of like our grandparents dog, T-Bone. He also shows his teeth. We pick him up on Thursday morning. Hot day!

Today, is my birthday. I will officially be 10 at 10:00PM. I am also going to an Apple Camp at the Apple Retail Store at Crossgates today. It will be exciting!! I love Apple. At the camp, we make a song with GarageBand on an iPad, Make a Movie with iMovie on a Mac, and since we're making a movie, shoot some footage, too. All on AUGUST 1ST!!!! Posted via AOL Mail

Now, we are back from Vermont. Our grandparents on my Dad's side. They came on their RV from Washington STATE! I wonder how long that even takes. They also brought along their two dogs (they are both Boston Terriers). A comic I made with the dogs. It isn't very funny, but it was fun to test a new app! T/Bone (The one looking up on the picture below), and Baily, playing with a toy, are both some active dogs, unlike Toga.   The big RV was parked in our backyard, our grandfather's truck behind it, the corvair (my dad's old car) beside it, and our Volvo behind that. It seemed like our driveway was a public road! T/Bone loves to play with a little blue ball, that bounces. He runs and catches it with a single bounce.

We are having a great time in Vermont now. Yesterday, we went to Burlington, and walked down Church St. Marketplace. We had Flatbread (Can't tell the difference between that and pizza. The waitress called it flatbread when we ordered and said our pizza was ready when she served us), which was good. The pictures below are Toga Like a little boy, and the view of Lake Champlain from our cabin.

Yesterday, I made a Photo Journal with an app from Apple, "iPhoto". You can view it at . Today, we went fishing. I caught 2 fish, but I think it was the same one. Dad caught a big one. Today, we hope to play a game called "Taboo". I will post again later in the day.

Vermont Vacation! I hope most of you figured that. That starts on Saturday. I'm excited. Fishing, the thing we will do most, is what I like the most from our previous vacation in Vermont. We caught at least 50 fish, this time I will count. I hope we catch more than 100 fish this time. Catching at least 50 fish last V.V.

This year is going by so fast Never like my past I love this year Because I'm here Above is just a short 4 lined poem I wrote within 2 minutes. I like this year because most of the kids in my class are like me, which is good. Everyone is well behaved. I love my teacher (as a teacher). Now we only have 5 more days left of school (2 are half days), so I'm going to try to make the best of it.

I wrote a poem about iPod touches, since I have a strong interest in them: The most amazing technology in your ears In your hands With retina display, and not much to pay You get to listen to great music Play games, chat, dance But at a glance, everyone needs one of these It's everybody's mission to listen to a song maybe long but always fantastic This isn't plastic, It's special It's the iPod So get your rod, go to a shop, and listen to some hip-hop Dedicated to Steve Jobs, my inspiration

On Monday, Apple hosted its 21st WWDC. It introduced iOS 6 for iPad 2, the new iPad, iPhone 3GS,iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPod touch 4th Generation. It also introduced a new generation of Mac Book Pro, a Mac with retina display. Other thing introduced at WWDC were new stuff for Siri. Siri now knows sports, to for example, you could say, "Who won the last NBA game?" and Siri would know what you were saying.. Also, Siri can now redirect you to other apps. It is also introducing Siri on the new iPad! For other introduced things, go to apple.com. WWDC report by Riley Walz

Good Morning! I had to play soccer in the rain, at 10am in the morning, on a weekend. I'm sure nobody would want to do that. I like soccer, but not on a weekend, when its raining, and early in the morning. Above is a video of a song I got into. "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley. I like the beat. 14 more school days! I'm excited for the summer. But also, I don't want to school year to end, too. I have a good class, like me this year. We also  have a few class clowns, so its funny when you walk in and walk out of school. Over the summer, Maggie wants me to teach her multiplication. And also, since I'm good at making videos/movies, we are going to try to make a music video every day in the summer. My aunts wedding is in September, and she asked me to make it into a big movie, so I'm starting to get prepared. Do you know how on TV, they have several cameras in different spots, not just one camera? Will I'm going to try to make it like this is on TV. I have to p

Tonight=A good night. We went to Malta and Beyond. A international activities thing. After that, we played on the playground with our good friends, the LaGoys. We went out to eat at Front St. Deli. Last, we went to watch a movie, in the Room Above the Garage. We should really get a better name for that! Well, good night!

Tonight, we had a fun time with our family friends, the LaGoys. We went to their house, went swimming, had hot dogs, and told spooky campfire jokes. Overall, this was a good Memorial Day weekend. Tomorrow we may go to our Aunt Mari's house to have a barbecue picnic. If we don't do that we will probably go to the Great Escape. It's 11:26pm, so good night!

I've been watching Jeopardy every day now, so I wanted to make one for you to play. "Riley's Jeopardy" is online by clicking  here . We didn't have our soccer game today, because it's raining. I hope over the weekend the weather is nice, because we already missed 2 games in a row. Crazy, huh? I'm researching Thomas Paine from the Revolutionary War. I think this is a cool project because he wrote books, probably what I'm going to do someday. " These are the times that try men's souls "-Thomas Paine (from the book The Crisis )

I decided to write a post of all the exciting things that happened to me last month. My Dad had his birthday on the 16th. He turned 42 years old.  We had a nice night on his birthday. Our dog, Toga, had his birthday on the 30th, turning 12. My Aunt Mari got engaged while taking a trip to Jamaica. She will be having her wedding in September. Maggie is going to be the flower girl, I will be recording the wedding and put it into a nice movie. I will also be having a live broadcast online for family members not being able to attend. I can't wait for the wedding! Since my class is hosting one of our school's "School Wide Meetings", I am going to be a host of a Mystery Guest show. I can't wait for the show on Thursday! I really enjoy the "Garfield" comics by Jim Davis. It is about a fat cat that has wacky and childishness owner. There is also a dog that gets teased by the cat (Garfield).  Here is one that came out 2 days ago:

Maggie Getting Silly (I love the bottom left picture!) Me

Right now, I am at the Malta Community Center. Maggie has a hip hop dance class right now, so I'm just sitting around. I come here twice a week, Wednesday and Thursday. Boy, Maggie comes here a lot for classes. The class she has a Thursday is a Zoomba Class. Some sort of fitness dance class. I was just looking at a couple of movies I made, and meant to show you this one last year.  Maggie, Callie (Maggie's friend), Cade (my best friend), and I made when they came to our house.  I hope you enjoy it! My mother has been writing on her own blog, Forty and Fabulous , every day for a contest " Slice of Life ". She has been writing some pretty good stuff, so check out her blog by clicking Forty and Fabulous above.

Today, I had my head shaved for St. Baldricks. I was pretty happy about it.  On the left, there is a video of my shaving. I hope you enjoy it! Also, I raised the most amount of money out of the other 80 shavees. I raised $3,000.  Below I have a picture of me bald. Would you shave your head for S.B.?

St. Baldricks Logo Well, I'm getting my head shaved tomorrow. I still need $185 to reach my goal. So donate now if you haven't! Click here  to donate! You only have one more day! Last week, my school had a fundraiser for St. Baldricks. It was called "Hat Day". The students wear a hat to school and pay $1 to St. Baldricks. We raised $260! Wait a Go Malta Ave! This week went by so fast! Tomorrow I'm getting my head shaved!

I have been collecting money for St. Baldricks, a program that finds cures for kids with cancer. I signed up on Sunday, and already have $810. My goal is $2,000, but am still getting there. If you still haven't donated yet, donate now! Click here to go to my page, then scroll down to the left side, and under my picture, you will see the donate button.

I joined St. Baldricks and I'm shaving my head. Please donate. The money will go to kids with cancer. To donate, please click here , then find the button that says, "Donate". You can call, or mail to donate to.