Bonjour from Ben

Bonjour from Ben!!!

I have been really busy! Our time is nearly up!!! we are off to paris on monday.

Over the last few days we have been to Spain.... Bilbao to see the Guggenheim Museum, it was cool and I liked the spider and threw money into the water and made a wish!!! I have been to lots of churches over the last few weeks.

San Sebastian was really fun, I made a friend called Jo who has a Pintxos Bar in Old San Sebastian. He bought us lots of lollies and he gave dad Cider!!! I bought a T shirt there with the Basque flag on it. I will show you it when I get back!!!

We ahd a great Family lunch at La Belle Auberge our Waitress was great and her name was Alice.

Got to go to bed now.

Tell you more from Paris.

Adios Amigos

Ben

I'm coming home soon yal!

whats up pals!

I'll just tell you a bit of what the Schwarzies and me have been doing in the last week or 2.

Dad went to london 3 days ago on a little plane and he seems to be having a great time there, we're picking him up from the airport tomorrow.he is also getting to go to Gordon Ramseys restaurant for free -his friend is paying for him,lucky daddy! one of the main reasons he is going there is to see his big brother, Evan, his wife and their 3 children, he hasn't seen him in years. We went to Spain 3 to 4 days ago and had a great time there! In bilbao we saw the Guggenheim and looked at everything inside. At the same place outside we spotted the cute dog made of beautiful flowers and the colour coated flower sort of things made of titaniam-aswell as the Guggenheim itself. If you don't know what the Guggenheim is, it's a huge building made of heaps of square titaniam sheets all put together to make one very large building.
Anyway, after Bilbao ,the 7 of us all drove to San Sabastian and stayed in hostal alemana for a night. we stayed up till 10:30 to 11:00,and the adults kept us up with coca cola! last time we came here we stayed up till 11:30 to 12:00! (we don't ever stay up that late usually) half the time we were there I searched the town for boot shops, seriously,it drove the adults crazy!
Today Mum Ben and I visited the salt museum,it was interesting.This is an important part of the history of Salies de Bearn. In Salies, they have a weekly market and since I did not find any in Spain,I found some cheep,perfect,simple boots right here in this little town!!!
There was also some wonderful food in the tiny market too.
Oh I forgot to mention that a little while ago,we went to La belle auberge and had a delicous 3 courses,the adults menu had 4 courses, 1st course on the kiddies menu was a lovely salad of carrot,tamato and cucumber,next was a over cooked steak(I prefer mine medium rare)and some yummy garlicy potatoes! then of course we had the dessert, scrumpcious chocolate ice cream with a nice little cake. The waitress was lovely to us and she spoke some english!
rm11,i hope the show went brilliantly and you all are well.
Everyone else,i hope you are doing just fine aswell.
I am coming home in about 9 days with my awesome family!and I really appreciate Nana giving us all this wonderful opportunity, coming to France!!

Good bye for now!

Ben in Bordeaux

Me and big sis Jamie




Me on the tram



Hi guys, i have been in Bordeaux with my cousin Dylan. And we played a realy different marble game.then we had a sleep over and the next day we had a picnic. I did not feel so well.Then we went home.The next day we drove to Talence. And we took the tram into Bordeaux.Then we went to Zara and Dad bought his jacket he wanted to buy. So we got it and after that we went to h&m and it was like paradise for me and i got a gray singlet and some socks. Then we went to a restaurant called l'Entrecote and it started in 1959 and it has been going for 50 years!!!.And it has the best steak and chips ever!!!.Aftter that we went back on the tram to Talence where are car is. And we drove back to our house. I played pingpong and we played with the goats.And the goats are called Mona and Lisa. Lisa is brown and black and white and Mona is same but in different places. Please reply because if you have i haven't been getting them .from Ben

Jamie in Bordeaux

Whats up with Ben?



Me and little bro Ben

Bonjour tout le monde,

I have been doing some amazing things, it sure is cool here, right now I am at a cute litle house in Castillon de Castets, in the middle of nowhere. yesterday my family and me , cousin dylan, and Aunty monique all went to a very famous, very old opera house, you could see some of the costumes that the performers wore and the pit(where the orchestra sits behind the stage) it was like a big theatre.today I went with my family to the Pey- Berland Tower(Saint Andrew's

cathedral bell tower)the first stone was layed on October 13, 1440! You had to walk up 231 stairs to reach the top and the same amount to get back down!=462 stairs altogeter!anyway,after that we went to a restaurant called L'Entrecote. An entrecote is a steak and this restaurant serves only steak plus as many frites (fries) as you can eat! Yum! the restaraunt opened in 1959,10 years before daddy was born!Idid alot more but I have to go now,sorry. I hope you all are well

au revoir, From Jamie

Lunch in France

Hi guys, here's what happens at lunch in France. The French people are crazy!!!

Aren't my family nice...

Love Jamie

BEN IN EUROPE

Me and a cat from the circus
Cousin Jack

Me and Jamie at the park

hi guys, what are you doing? I have been going to the pools but thats over because there is a big festeval on. And i got a yoyo thing called a Diablo. It has two sticks and two pieaces of string. And jordan i will ring you at some stage. now how did the profromince go? I realy wanted to do it and i am missing you all, i realy wanted all of you where we are and i am telling the truth, i am missing you all a lot. love Ben

Ben in Europe

Hi Rm 5 guss what im doing i found hazel nuts when we whent to mini golf!.And we went to the beach and the pools. We played mini golf, we said i won and then we found out that jamie won.when we went to the beach the water was very hot so was the sand.At the pools i was sscared because it was so deep my dad could not even stand! there was a diveing board.

Yesterday i went to the market and the day before we went to the circus

Au revoir room 5 - missing you - but not too much, having fun!

Ben

My first few days in France!!

Firstly, thanks Mrs Travers for sending me that nice email of yours.

Hi again, guess what I have been doing for the last couple of days? well I'll tell you now. On the 2nd day of being in France, I went through my normal morning routine with my family, Christine ( mum) Jason ( dad) Ben (brother),jack ( cousin) Jo Jo ( aunty) Nana (grandma). and then in mid day we all went to the tourist centre and got our golf clubs for mini golf . then we went to play. It was fun , although it was not what I expected, it was old dirty and lonely.after that we recognised a hazelnut and a chestnut tree. so we took some. Any way, that was one of the activities I've done, Lets see what is coming up. The next day e homewe went to the circus,it was cool,and I shared real spun candy floss with Jack and Ben (it was huge)but we ate it fast.It was late by the time the circus had started, so we went straight to bed (after brushing my teeth and getting in my pj's of course)
the next day, I got dressed and went straight to the beach,with everybody else. It was fun there, although,when I was boggy boarding,a huge wave tumbled me over and skinned me badly,oh well,at least, I enjoyed the rest of the day lots.when I was too cold I got out . Ben jack and me, had a nice out door shower in our saturated togs, after that we had an ice cream, I had cinnamon flavour and it was sooooo yummy! then we went home.

Today we are thinking about going to the public pools! (don't worry Mrs Travers, Mum and dad got to do lots of adult activities, as well as sharing in with our fun too!)they're lucky!
p.s we are going to spain in a few days!~from Jamie

Ben in Europe

hi room 5 are you guys having a good time? because i am on the plane i did not like it because i did not feal that good hhhhooooooooooffffffffffffnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

now we are in france and i bought a suduku book for all of you - sorry room 11 and my cousins, the book is for my class. AND I WANT CHOCOLATE AND SEND ME EURO'S!!!.Now where were we - so the suduku book you can have room5 and i am missing you Jordan and Jay and who ever wants me to miss them and miss T. agien where were we oh year when i got to france i had to go to sleep strait away it was not good it was crul!!!!!!! and Jordan i got cooler shoes then you hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

and i say byby every boy including jack you are so cool jack and every boy by Ben love ya

Meeeee!

Hi, guys,how are you all?I'm at my little house in france playing with my cousin and my brother,it is so lovely here . The house is wonderful!This is a photo of me shopping for some "french shoes" in the little town.it is very confusing ,its like your going round and round in a circle because their are so many roads.anyway,the first part on the plane from auckland to brisbane on the plane was three and and a half hours/the second from brisbane to dubi was seventeen hours!/ the third from dubi to paris was six and a half hours/and the last from paris to biarritz was only one hour! altogether I spent fourty two hours on the plane altogether(including all the waiting in the airports)which kind of counts.When my family and me got off the plane, Ben & I felt very jet lagged,especially me.Well,I hope you all do very well in the big show and I hope it goes well.from Jamie ~ in Salies de Bearn (France)