Seattle T-Shirt And Mug!

My mum was thinking about making American Boys T-shirts and mugs, so that I could get them promoted - imagine someone drinking out of a Washington, Dallas and Chicago mug, or someone wearing a Boston T-shirt!

Originally I was going to get the T-shirt and mug on Friday, but my mum forgot to collect them from the printing shop where they make them, so I had to wait until yesterday.

So I went to collect them, just before going to have a picnic at the park. The T-shirt and mug came in a paper bag (the mug was in a polystyrene box to protect it). I opened the bag, and printed onto the T-shirt and mug, was the one and only... SEATTLE!!!!!!!

It was the artwork of him wearing the "Rainy City" leotard (the one with the rainclouds printed on it). I was really ectstatic, so I pulled it on. I was very happy to get gifts like these - a T-shirt and mug with my own character printed on them.

Now I can wear Seattle, and drink my tea out of my very own Seattle mug!

(BTW, I also got to drink a Seattle Latte at the picnic we had later on. It seems that I need that latte every time I see it, ha ha!)

The Ducks of London

All week, I was in the house, tapping away on my computer. When I did go out, it was only to go to school (obviously). Even though I love surfing the Web and playing computer games, it started to get it a bit boring just hitting American cities' names into the Google box and looking at the Seattle artworks on my memory stick.

So yesterday, I went out to go to the park, along with my sister. At the pond, there were lots of different kinds of birds: pigeons, geese, moorhens, coots, and my most favorite aquatic birds of all: DUCKS!

We had brought some brown bread with us (apparently white bread isn't good for them). We dropped some on the floor, and the ducks gobbled it up, quacking happily. Unfortunately the geese, pigeons and other birds would come for the bread and snatch it - thieves!

Then I had a GREAT idea. We would give the ducks names. No, not city names, but people names. We got six ducks, three girls and three boys. We named the girls Amalie, Chenoa and Vee Vee, and the boys Demetrius, Samuel and Edwin. I took a photo with my sister's mobile phone with all the boys in it, but I couldn't get all the girls into one photo, so I had to take one photo for each one.

Now time for some American fun...

In the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, there is a five-star hotel, named the Peabody. On the rooftop, five ducks (four girls and one boy) make their home. Every morning at 11 o'clock, they go down in the lift (or, as American Boys say it, elevator) and the "Daily Duck Parade" is held, with marching music, cameras flashing and people of all ages going mad, shouting "YAY!! DUCKS OF MEMPHIS!!!!" A red carpet is rolled out for them, leading up to the fountain, where they splash around joyfully. Then at 5 PM, it goes the other way round. The same music is played, and the screaming crowds and flashing cameras are still present, but this time the ducks go back into the lift up to their "Duck Palace" on the rooftop.

The TV show, The Ducks of Memphis, was inspired by this unusual but charming custom.

Back to London...

Three ducklings behind Amalie caught my eye. I thought, "Wait a minute. Amalie has kids?" They looked so cute, I wanted to take a photo of them! So I did. I liked how they were following her. I haven't come up with names for them yet, but with some of work of my imagination, I'll come up with some soon.

Because ducks are my favorite aquatic birds, I took LOTS of photos - I even took some of the geese and pigeons!

After all that, I went to a barbecue at a friends' house - it was fun! I was SO tired afterwards.

Now, every time I go to feed the ducks, I'll call them Amalie, Chenoa, Vee Vee, Demetrius, Samuel and Edwin!

A Surprise From Starbucks!

Following the excitement of the release of Seattle's Big Party, today I went to Central London to have a drink and something to eat at Starbucks, not knowing that there was a surprise for me.

It just seemed so normal until something caught my eye. There was the Space Needle, and of course the Starbucks logo. My heart went boom-boom, boom-boom. It was... SEATTLE! My favourite city in the whole of America. The label said: Seattle Latte. I knew that Starbucks started in Seattle, so I wanted to give it a try.

At first, it tasted HORRIBLE. (I've never drunk coffee, but I have eaten it... as sweets.) But then I liked the taste of Seattleness, so I went on drinking. I got my mum to drink some of it, and she said it tasted of... Seattleness.

I was a bit sick when I drunk it all (I blame Seattle! LOL). But I seem to have become addicted to it, like a drug. Now every time I go to Starbucks, I'll ask them for SEATTLE LATTE! (Woohoo!)

It's so addictive, it might even appear in SBP. Seattle's a massive coffeeholic!