Currently back home!
Today we went to the Apple store and we programmed some Sphero robots to:
I coded my robot to set off from a yellow spot to go around a chair and then come back exactly to the spot it started on. It was fun because we got to use an iPad to control it.
Today I played tennis and daddy got some new tennis balls so we played tennis with them. It was hot and I played tennis with Sam.
Hello to my tennis friends at Skipton Tennis Centre! I love my lessons there so am practising for when I get back.
It was funny when I hit daddy with the tennis ball.
Next we went to the nearby shopping centre and I got an ice cream and Sam got some cotton candy mini melts ice cream.
For tea we went out with my family from Vancouver and we went out to a restaurant and I had rice and soy sauce.
Here are Sam and Martha’s videos from Microsoft’s STEM event “Camp Know Where: Strange-ify Your World” that they attended today.
They were using Surface Pros and Surface Pens, 3D models from the (soon to be retired) Remix3D.com website, the ‘Mixed Reality’ functionality in the ‘Paint 3D’ app and the ‘Photos’ app to create effects and videos from photos.
Today we went to Granville Island. First we went to the Kids Market and there were lots of cool but expensive toys! After the market we went to a freezing water park. I played with a hose and squirted Martha and some other people. Even though it was freezing we still had a good time because it was sunny. We also went down a water slide. That was cold too.
After that we went inside a food market and we bought some cherries, meat lasagne and cookies for tea. They were very nice!
(Note from Mike: I remember visiting Granville Island when I lived in Vancouver 14 years or so ago and loved the Public Market which has some great food sellers. I used to come across via the Aquabus from Hornby as my apartment was close to there. It’s also has a very arty vibe with lots of craft studios and artisan workshops. It’s a great place to visit and was good to come back.)
In the morning we went for a walk in Deer Lake Park which is near our house.
In the afternoon we went to the nearby shopping centre and created our own emoji at the Apple Store. I created this emoji:
It was great!
We also met daddy’s cousin and had a smoothie.
We got up very early (3am) to go to the airport to catch a plane to Calgary and then a shorter plane journey to Vancouver. On the journey to Calgary I ate biscuits, lots of pretzels and orange juice.
When we got to Vancouver we got a taxi from the airport to our new home in Burnaby, Vancouver. We watched “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” and then went to bed.
