February 26th, 2009

Today nothing exiting happened in school so I have nothing to blog about.  Sorry, maybe I'll blog tomorrow.  TTYL!  8-)

February 25th, 2009

Happy Ash Wednesday!!  Today going to a catholic school I had to go to church in the morning and then go to social studies.  That class was cut short since we had church.  After social we had library.  Thats always fun since its like a study hall where you can eat and talk.  Sounds good right?  Then we had math, not as fun as library but still fine.  LUNCH - Today I bought lunch and I got a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup.  Very good actually.  Next we had to go to music.  Not the best class but you can survive it.  Once music was over we got to go to gym to play kickball.  The team I was on won -  Wa-hoo!!  I guess thats goodbye for today!  Goodbye.

home sweet home

Hey everybody my mom, dad, and i are home safe and sound.  I am not enjoying the wonderful orange trees in Taledo but i'm enjoying the cold weather and the snow in Syracuse, New York!!      If you like coldness and all of the shoveling Syracuse, New York is the place for you. Blog to you later!!  Get it??

Hola from Spain (day 3)

Today was again a great day!  My mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, and I took a 30 minute train ride to a town called Toledo.  It was so cold in the morning since its more north than Madrid but it gets warmer when you hike up a lot of hills and it also gets warmer when you just plane out walk a lot.   Here are some pictures I took today.  Like I always say .... enjoy!!

Just one of the amazing buildings.

       Some of the many beautiful buildings

                   

       One of the beautiful streets in Toledo.

Tomorrow we are going to Seville another town in Spain.  Since it is south and closer to the equator it is going to be around 62 degrees there tomorrow.  Hip-Hip-Horray, WARM WEATHER for a true New Yorker!!  Adios. 8-)

     

hola from Spain (day 2)

Today we walked around a lot - such much that my pedometer broke.  These are some photos I took while walking.  Enjoy!

One of the beautiful streets in Madrid, Spain.

A smiley face of Spanish  olives  that I made!  Like it?

The symbol of Madrid... a bear climbing up a strawberry tree.

 

My mom, dad, grandma cook, and grandpa cook in front of the royal palace.

Me with a churro y chocolate for dessert (The best dessert you will ever have!).

Hola from Spain (day 1)

This morning around 7:00am in Spain time my mom, dad, grandma cook,  grandpa cook, and I landed in Madrid, Spain!  That's not where the trip began so let's go to the beginning.  It all started in the big apple New York City.  Here we go!

On Friday night my mom, dad, and I drove down to my aunt kristina and her boyfriend (Silvio)'s house in Manhatten.   Once we got there around 10:00pm we had some pizza and had tons of fun.  The next day we walked all around NYC.  We went to my favorite place - Dylans Candy Bar.  It is filled with candy which is great for the name!!  If you watch the show Gossip Girl this picture will make sense to you - here is the picture...

This is where Dan and Vanessa stood when they were talking and getting black licorice swirls!!        OMG!!  8-)

After, my mom, dad, and I drove to JFK airport in New York City.  There we caught a red-eye flight with my grandma and grandpa cook.

Welcome to Madrid, Spain!!  

Our hotel is beautiful and in a very good location.  All we did today was walk around not to exciting but very beautiful.  Not much to take pictures of but the one to the left is just a quick shot I got.  The temperature is gorgeous and sunny.  I'll take more pictures tomorrow on some of the walking tours that we do. (they are in my mom's Madrid book)  Adios 8-)

February Break

      My parents and I are big on traveling around the world.  Tonight at around 5:30 my mom, dad, and I drove down to my aunt kristina and her boyfriend silvio's apartment to spend the night in NYC.  Tomorrow my aunt, her boyfriend, my mom, my dad, and I will walk all around NYC and then at 6:00pm my dad, mom, and I will catch a "red eye" plane to Madrid, Spain with my grandma and grandpa cook for a week.  We get back on Friday the 20th and I will make sure to put a lot of pictures on my blog.  Make sure to check out my blog all through out this week. Hope everyone has a great February Break and has a "lovely" Valentines Day.      

    

Happy Valentines Day!

School Today (2-9-09)

Today school was pretty boring!  In reading all we did was read four pages in our textbook and we had to do two workbook pages. After I had Science.  It was a little more exciting since all we did was take a really easy quiz and after talk for a half an hour.  Next we had math!  That's always fun.  I am in accelerated math which means that you go faster than the normal math class.  My friend Emily and I are the only ones in the class.  Our teacher let us measure angles in a fun way.  Fun fact- if you look through a see through, colored, plastic protractor it looks like your wearing sunglasses and some times it looks like the room is that color.  You should try it its fun!  Anyway after I had English you got to love your pronouns!!  If you really want to know the worst subject of all it was right after English.  This is the absolute worst subject at my school and EVERYONE  at my school can agree.  Its called... Social Studies!!!  We listen just its hard when you're really tired, but since we are good kids we listen most of the time, just not very attentively.

            

 

<- That's how everyone looks in Social Studies.  But what you don't know is that we listen in that position

Once that was finally over we had lunch.  I had soup made from a Campbell's can.  Then we got to go outside for recess!  When we came in side our class talked with our teacher about whats happening for our Valentine party.  I already got my valentines and they are the best ever!  They're Elmo.  Everyone loves a big red furry dude.  Emily, Steffy, Jessica and I (friends) had to go to flute lessons.  Since we had band we missed Art.  All my class did in Art was make valentine pop-out cards.  I was at first angry that I had to miss Art, but then they told me what they did and I felt better about missing Art.  

That's what I did today.  Now I am off to take a walk with my mom, dad, and this dog I walk that lives across the street. After the walk I am sitting my but on the sofa and I am watching my DVRed Grammies!  Also at 8 I got to watch Gossip Girl.  

                                                             

Welcome

Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog called madison cook's insane and awesome life!  Thats a picture of me on the ferris wheel at the New York State Fair taken by my best friend Amanda.  If you like games, rides, free stuff, animals, and awesome food the New York State Fair looks like the place for you.   Thanks for reading my first post on my blog and I will update it soon.