Friday Stories: Birthday Gifts

For my eighth birthday, I got rollerblades and a chem lab from my mom and dad. Mitch got me a Fantastic Four game for Game Boy. I got a gift card for Target from Grandma Antognini and Grandpa Kent for $25 and I picked out a Star Wars Lego game for Game Boy and a Spy Watch XP-6. It had world time, alarm, night vision, an infrared scope, and a couple other features that I can't remember. It had at least twelve features. From Heidi and Dan and William and Wes, I got a science kit that I've been wanting for ages. I got the Littlest Pet Shop pup from Mommy and Daddy. It came with a pup and a treasure map, a treasure chest, a shovel, and a chew toy. I got a remote control kit for TV from Mom and Dad. I got Trivial Pursuit for Kids from Mom and Dad also. I got a Transformer from Angie and a book that said, Do You Doodle? I got a Expert Jumper parachute guy from Gumdrop and an outer space book and I got a Super Hero DVD from Gumball.

I went to the Mall of America for my birthday. We went to Mall of America on the 17th. I wanted to go to it on the 18th, but the field trip to the Mall of America was on the 17th. We went to Underwater World. At Underwater World, they had a tunnel where you got to walk through and look at the fish. The glass walls were so clean, it looked like you were actually by the fish. We saw sawfish, sharks, guitar sharks, stingrays, yellow puffer fish, sand sharks, and more that I can't remember. Dad and me got to have a behind-the-scene tour. We got to see where they feed the fish and also learned that an iguana has two eyes where we have it, and an eye right in the middle of its head. The littlest turtle took five people to lift it if they had to weigh him or if it was sick, to move it into a different place. I got rocks for my souvenir.

I got to look in Motor Madness. It's a place where you get to build remote control cars. At Motor Madness, you got to build a car. You got to pick out the body, the wheels, how it looked, you could put on stickers. I've never seen a store where you can build your own remote control cars. You also get to use real power tools. I didn't get a remote control car 'cause each car costs fifty dollars to make it.

We also went to Lego Land. I got to pick out a Bionicle and so did Mitch.