A Blog Post From Maia
14 May 2010 | Galapagos, Ecuador
We were 8 or 9 miles from the equator and we were siting in the cockpit with Mom reading to us
from the book AIRBORN by Kenneth Oppel. Our auto pilot stopped working, so my mom started working on
figuring out what happened to it. I went down stairs hoping we could watch Bewitched but I started listening to my MP3. Zoe came down stairs and told me that we could watch Bewitched (Liam was in the cockpit sleeping), so we got out the DVD player at 11:00 at night and we watched 5 shows waiting for the equator.
It was about 12:00 when we finished then we went to sleep for about 2 hours. Dad woke me up by shining flash light in my face from the cockpit. I got up and found we were at the equator, so I went and woke up everybody else. It was easy to wake up mom, but it was not easy to wake up Zoe and Liam. I had to push and call them about 20 or 30 times.
Finally they woke up from moms help we went up in to the cockpit and had
a party at 3:30 in the morning. Then we went to bed. I slept really well and I got up late. For the hole
day we all helped out and got to Galapagos around 3 in the afternoon.
We saw seals for the first time. They were cute and some were big and some were small. We have been at the Galapagos for a few days now and I have been doing school trying to get it done. I have 3 more Key Questions still to do (key questions are questions that i have to send in to the Ontario school program). I am trying to get them done as soon as I can so I will be free from school when Artemo gets here. I really hope they do!!!!!! And I really miss them.
I am going to write more stories and put them on the blog. I have already started writing one!!!!
Yesterday, we went with a taxi driver Luis to a volcano. It was filled with water and we walked all around the top. On the way we saw wild horses. They were really cool!
Maia