My Grandad

My Grandad's first time playing Monopoly with me 

After I got out of the car I strolled my way to my grandparents front porch with them both there to greet me and my siblings. We were going to be staying the night at their house and since I was only 8 I had no idea what I was going to do.

As I was moping with nothing to do I came across a very creaky cupboard in my uncle's room and I decided to have a little peak inside to see if there was anything interesting to do.  Sitting right there at the very top corner was the beloved game Monopoly.

I was quite happy with my luxurious find and  I ran to grandad and asked him if we could play together. After we had set up our game (which took some time) our game finally got underway. I rolled first and rolled an 11 and bought Pall Mall. Back then I wasn't very wise and my strategy was just to buy everything I landed on and hope the money starts rolling in. My Grandad was playing a very different kind of game to me he was only buying the good properties like Leciester Square and saving lots of money.  After about 2 hours the game started going to plan for me and grandad started paying up and before you knew it my grandad went broke by landing on my Northumberland Avenue hotel and having to pay £750.

After that my Grandad and I shook hands and said "good game" to each other. Now whenever I'm at a sleepover at my grandparents I never forget to get the monopoly out and start playing.



 

Fiji

Fiji -Malolo Island



Our family rolled off the boat onto Malolo island and we were blasted with the singing and the high fives from the Fijian staff. As our family walked over the jetty to find our room after all the singing I knew it was going to be a great holiday. As part of this blog post I am going to talk about three of my favourite things I did on my holiday.

Snorkelling 

Snorkelling was very fun at Fiji and I also got to snorkel in two different places one place was near the jetty at Malolo and the other one was at a sandbar a couple of Km from Malolo and we had to take the boat to get there. The snorkelling at Malolo didn't have as nice fish as the sandbar but it still had a whole school of grey fish which I really enjoyed swimming with. My favourite was the one I saw at the sandbar which were clown fishes which is what Nemo is. The coral I mostly enjoyed seeing was brain coral because it looked so much like a brain and it came in many different colours. Snorkelling was probably the funnest thing I did at Malolo.

Kayaking

Kayaking was fun and quite challenging because I hadn't done much of it before. At Malolo I went kayaking every day. When we went kayaking we would always travel to the same two places stinky Island and a mini sandbar and they were both very close to each other. The time I found hardest was the second time I went kayaking because the first time my dad was doubles partners with me and he would do most of the work. But the second time I was on my own in a single kayak and I had to do all the work. Kayaking was quite hard and I got a lot better at it since the start of the holiday.

Table Tennis and friends

Table Tennis at Malolo was a really big hit. I got to play against the staff, my friends and sometimes my siblings. The place where the table tennis was found was in the teenage room where there was also a TV and some bean bags. I also made lots of friends while I was playing table tennis there names were kip, Cullum, Fin, Duke and Christian. I also played in a tournament and I got third. By the end of my holiday I was heaps better at table tennis than at the start of my holiday

So those were my favourite things I did on my holiday and I'm missing the place already.