Hearse Castle Near Pismo

I'm now in Pismo! I found internet access at our campground, so I will keep in touch here in our trailer! But anyway, I brought my camera that I won at the Jog-a-thon rally, and I took pictures of our tour at hearse castle!! This castle is HUUUUUGGGEE!!!!!!!!!!

To the right is a picture of the enormous property!! It takes 20 minutes on the tour bus that takes us up there, to get to the top of the thousands of acres of property!!!!!!!!

This is the main castle that is built with reinforced concrete made to withstand an 8.5 

earthquake!!!!! COOOL! This entire front of the bulding took around 7 YEARS to complete!!!! 

 We were walking on paths with real GOLD tiles!!!

These are pictures of the way up on the bus.  That log cabin is not open to the public, but it was the SHED!! Like a tool shed! But the estate was filled with animals from elephants to llamas to cheetas and lions!!! They're not visible  as much anymore, though. Mr. Hearse had the largest collection of animals in his own Zoo in the world!!!!!!!!!!  Even polar bears!! He once had Polar bears!! 

The estate was given to the public because it was too expansive for the inheriting family to manage!! Awesome!!!! Mr. Hearse had some 17 WIVES!!! ( That's just not right...   :/   ) How was he sooooo rich?????

Mr. Hearse owned 17 NEWSPAPERS, 2 MOVIE STUDIOS, HE OWNED METRO (MGM), AND 5 OTHER COMPANIES THAT I FORGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well, my first day in Pismo was tight! How will tomorrow turn out?????????? Well, I'll bring my camera and post tomorrow!! 

This is Gabe, signing out from Pismo!!

I found a new song....

We're going to Pismo Beach!

Pismo??? This vacation I'm going to Pismo?????? I never thought about that place, but I guess I'm being too shallow? It could be fun, right? It could end up totally awesome. After all, it IS PISMO BEACH, RIGHT?? It actually sounds fun, now that I think about it... Maybe............. Ha ha, Yeah, and I almost forgot, we're going in our trailer! I'm not much of a fan for TRAILERS, only MOTOR HOMES!! Anyway, I don't know what exactly we'll be doing there, but I just hope I won't be doing activities that only my parents pick for us..... Like horseback riding.. I love horseback riding, but last time, we were almost attacked by a mother bear and her cubs! There was a tour in front of ours, and there was this bear with her cubs just walking around the area around the trail that the tours were supposed to be traveling!! Apparently, the mother bear was seeing horses and humans all day and was fed up with the tours watching her cubs, so she spooked the horses in the tour ahead of us! Meanwhile, we're traveling along when three horses start appearing ahead on the trail, and the tour guide stopped them.  Then I look at these horses coming into view, and then I'm like, "Holy smokes, man!! There aren't any riders on these horses!!", and there was nobody riding them! Later we found out that when we were helping to return the horses to their riders, all of the riders were fine, like no major injury, they were only launched of of their horses when the mother bear STOOD UP in less than 30 seconds growling!! There were only some scratches, but the tour ahead of us and well, our tour party; were all good! Just something that is somewhat scary.... But that's a story to remember.   So, anyway, I don't know about what were going to be doing at Pismo... With my family in a trailer, I just wish I could have been able to like invite a friend at least?? I could ask Andrew... As if I could invite any other friend....

The Hitchhikker's Guide to the Galaxy!!!

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The Book: It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a Sperm Whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet and since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity. This is what it thought, as it fell: 
The Whale: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground! 
[dies] 
The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now. 
 (you may want to lower your speakers a bit, I think I recorded it funny)

HNM Jog-A Thon!

This year's jog-a-thon was totally awesome! As always, the event was at Damien HS (YAY! IM GOING THERE) and they got a brand new track! The track used to be dirt in previous years, but now, it's rubber! This year, I saw no 8th graders actually participating except Lauren and McKenna and Bianca! No, Lauren cheated.... But anyway, I wanted to see how quickly I could dash across the football field on the track; my best is 17 seconds!!!