Kurt'sstories

THRILLER

On Friday night (May 25th), we went on a ghost tour. We met our tour guide in the Octagon and started it beside the library. We then walked to First Church where Andrew told us about the lady ghost that lived there. We went around the back of the church - the ghost has been seen in the car park, she has a dress on and is in white. We took some photos and then we walked to the next place, opposite First Church, an alley called Black Dog Alley. People say that in the 1960’s, two butcher’s that had a butcher’s shop down there created a story about the ghost of a dog to scare people away from this butchers shop to protect it from thieves. We then we went to another place, the back of the Reagent Threatre where there was a bad fire in the gold rush day’s and lot’s of people (50) got burnt to death. Now they say that if there is a ghost present you can smell smoke. Lastly we walked to Carnegie Centre in Moray Place and Andrew took us down 8 flights to a bunker room. Andrew told us that the man who owned the centre, called Andrew Carnegie died and now haunt’s it and that sometimes a ghost can punch you but you can not feel it until a day or so later when you feel a bruise.

//__ MY Trip to Australia __// = =

On Thursday before school finished we went to the airport to go to Australia. The flight seemed to go on for ever. It was four hours long. When we got to the Brisbane airport we got our bags and then we drove to Palm Beach, but we got lost. When we finally got there we had tea and then we went to bed. When i got up we went to movie world we had to stand in line for about one hour and when we got in we went on to the roller coaster .It went really fast and then it was over quick. Next we went to the 3D movie, it was ice age 4 it was cool but it did not go for very long. Our chairs moved and we rocked. We went on lots of rides but had to wait in long lines because it was school holidays. We also went to Dreamworld, but I liked Movie World best. Because I still had my cast on I couldn't go on some rides or go into the water. I would have liked to go on the go carts, but I couldn't. We went to the Wildlife park, and I really liked that. I saw a one ton crocodile and was six meters long. It opened it's mouth and i saw down it's throat. Yuk. There were lizards in the same enclosure. I went up to the Kangaroos and patted the baby. I patted an Emu and it looked for food in my back pack. I watched a dingo show and held a snake. The snake handler told us that one in three houses have snakes in their back yard. Our friends in Australia told us that at this time of the year the snakes do a lot of sleeping, and wake up about the end of August. Lucky for us.We got lots of itchy bites. We saw a 2meter long eel fighting with a pelican. We also watched a tiger show and saw them climbing the tree. I went shopping at Pacific Fair, which is a big shopping centre. Reuben and I got bored. We went to the Markets one day.We also went on the Super Duck which is a bus that can go on roads and water.I really enjoyed going to the Haunted house. It was scary, and we went inside a ghosts tonsils. We also went to Infinity, which is a Super natural laser light out of the blue type of thing.

We cooked some Kangaroo steaks on the bbq. I didn't like it. Mine was tough. We cooked lots of scollops and chicken.On the last four days we went to Brisbane and stayed with our friends. They took us to a Sushi train. That was ok. We went to the zoo and saw Brown bears and Camels and lots of other animals. The highlight of my trip was going to the theme parks, but I didn't like the queues because it was school holidays and busy.We were away for ten days but I was pleased to get home.