England Facts:)

Facts...

1.England is the largest country in Great Britain and the UK.

2.Nearly 84% of the population of the UK lives in England.

3.England is only 35 km from France and is now linked by a tunnel under the English Channel.

4.An Englishman drinks more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than
Americans!).

5.The London Eye is the tallest wheel in the world and each rotation takes about 30 minutes.

6.Beef is one of England’s biggest exports.

7.French was the official language of England from 1066 to 1362.

8.Windsor castle is the oldest and largest royal caste and is still in use.

9.Great Britain is made up of 3 countries - England, Scotland, and Wales

10.The total population is 49.1 million people.

11.This is an increase of 1.26 million from 1991.

12. A fave food are fish and chips.

13.In England the weather doesn't get much lower the 0ºC in winter and not much higher than 32ºC in
summer. It also means that it is damp and is subject to frequent changes.

14.July and August are normally the warmest months in England.

15.January and February are the coldest months.

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Birthday weekend!

This weekend was birthday weekend in the Collins home. My Dad's birthday was first, we went up to Clent Hills and had monster bacon sandwiches. We also went to Birmingham on the train - we catch the train a lot in the UK. It was my first visit to Bham since I came back. Birmingham is the second biggest city in the UK, London is first. Talking about Birmingham, my Mom ran her first half marathon with Dad on Sunday. 13 miles in 2hours and 9 minutes. Well done Mommy!
Then onto Josiah's birthday - he is 5! We had a fun day, first to a play area called Chilly Kiddys, then to paint some pottery at a place called Cockleshell. Josiah enjoyed his day with family and friends and lots of presents.

Happy Birthday Daddy and Josiah!!
xx

St Ives weekend away...

On Monday I went to a little village called St Ives. We went with my friend called Charis and another family, the Barkers it was awesome even though to had to go home on the Wednesday it was still loads of fun. The day we got there we went into the sea it was absolutely freezing... they were very big waves about 6 feet high. Me and my friend got out first and ran back to our hotel, the hotel we were staying at was called Tregenna Castle it was beautiful! We ran straight into the hotel and went in to the steam room-hot tub-sauna- and the pool! It was amazing:) Me&Em&Charis got a room to ourselves with 3 single beds and one double. We had a television and a place to make drinks... during the evening we all went out for a meal it was lovely. We played this game when you had to run down the steps and try and get back up before the waves came crashing down it was so fun Charis' boots were ruined:( The next day we went surfing! I was surprisingly pretty good at it. Lol. This time it was warmer because we had on wetsuits. I managed to stand up a couple of times but went under more times tho:( When we all got out we got a hot chocolate each. Yummyy, we then walked around town we brought presents... and we went to Pizza Express as were walking home at 10pm Emily and Charis jumped in the sea! It was weird that they would do that but they did get us all a hot chocolate with marshmallows and squirty cream .Yummy!

by Jessica:D

Cousin and Coffee

Today i went in to town with my cousin Charlotte we went on the little train which is cool, it took like 2 minutes to get there... When we got there we went to a coffee house it is called 'Cafe Nero' It is very busy in there! Then we went to find some shoes for me - they are for my moms birthday party! The party is tomorrow there is gonna be about 100 people there which is going to be very cool! I'm wearing a blue dress it is very pretty<3 but i might where a red one which is also very nice:D 

It is raining here what sucks;( i don't really like rain :( 

Catch up soon, Jess

Bondi!

The sleepover on Friday was awesome!  I had so much fun - Bondi was cool! swimming-screaming-laughing-jumping in<3 Loved it we took to train into town and back! It was so much fun. First my friend Lena lost 5 pounds and after she found it then Emily lost hers so that was a bit confusing .... when we got home we told my mom and dad that we had awesome night...  We all slept over at my house, got to sleep about 4am and ate so much 'candy' otherwise known as 'sweets' it was AMAZING! One of the best nights of my lifeee!:L

By Jess 

Church:D

Yesterday I went to church, the church is called Chawn Hill in Stourbridge.  It was so cool seeing all my church friends again, I went to youth - it was a lot of fun we played games and we talked about God, baptisms and played on XBox . . . After that we went to my friends house for a Canadian thanksgiving we had a roast dinner and we all bought food to share. There were 5 desserts to choose from. Chocolate cake- fruit bowl- more chocolate cake for kids- cheese cake- and there was something else but i just can't remember it :| It was  awesome as in England they don't do thanksgiving! We told them about it. There was over 40 people there 8 Families:L "WOW". It was so loud and so cool at the same time.  Me my friends- Millie, Charis, Harmony and Em all took a lot of pictures. It was amazing seeing everyone again.

By Jess. . .

Sleepovers:)

Tonight i am  having a sleepover with some friend's summer,Lena and Amy we are planning to go to "BONDI"! this is some where you can swim only on Friday night it has loud music and it is really awesome. When Emily and Amy went last time  I couldn't go because i had a broken arm:(They said the fire alarm went off so they had to go outside in there bathing suits as in  England they call them "Swimming Costumes " every one thinks i have a Canadian accent but I don't think I do! They keep asking me to say words so i just say it. Eh?

by Jessica:)

Friends..:D

Yesterday I hung out with some of my old friends - Summer, Amy, Lena and Ruby.My friends mom picked me up from my house then Me and Em went to surprise them... they were scream and crying. I saw most of my old class it was so awesome seeing everyone again. After that my other friends came to our house to hang out it was pretty fun! My jet lag has mostly gone the first few days i had really bad jet lag i woke up at 2-3 am everyday except last night. It's been a long week! 

from Jessica:)

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England!!!

I am now in England, I have jet lag which sucks! The plane ride was okay - we had a treat and got to go in business class what was really awesome =) I am going to see my old school friends today what is going to be fun, I'm going to surprise them at the train station when they finish school. Emily might climbing a mountain in Wales with her friend she is very excited.        

I'm missing everyone in Canada.

From Jess ;)