We really wanted to visit NASA on this trip, since I watched “Interstellar” and “The Martian” many times. I had the chance to have lunch with Astronaut Jerry Ross, the only astronaut to be in Space seven times!! We took a tour to the three platforms where the spaceships take off. We also saw the platform where the take off to Mars will take place! Now I have one mission – to convince my mom to come back in 2018 for the take off of the new spaceship “SLS”. It looks super sleek.
Everglades National Park Florida
A boat tour among dense mangroves was nothing compared to walking between alligator tails and vultures, which were eating rubber from our windscreens. Not sure who we were more scared of: alligators with open jaws or locals with gold teeth. (you can email mom for full details). An abundance of birds, mosquitos 😉 and inhabitats was impressive. Enjoy.
Animal Kingdom is one of the largest theme parks in the world.
There was nothing better than a Safari; we went twice as we were lucky as there were no line ups. It was nice seeing all the wildlife roaming on the savanna grass land, and us in a super cool safari track crossing rivers, driving on old squeaky bridges and through jungle. Animals are kept in very good conditions, with lots of space. I learned a lot about animals that are close to extinction and Animal Kingdom is putting lots of effort into repopulating them in their original countries.
We loved Expedition Everest, Maharajah Jungle Trek and Pangani Forest Exploration Trail with Gorillas. We learned that Gorillas have already had 7 babies in Animal Kingdom which is so impressive as breeding in captivity hasn’t been that successful in other places.
Lots has happened since my last update. Mom had her annual Eastside Culture Crawl event, this time 2 000 people visited her studio. Elsa and Ana from Frozen came to Vancouver to perform the show Frozen on Ice, where I went with my best buddy Yara. Meanwhile Santa came to town with a big parade and he brought North Pole cold for a few days. We visited a few Art Shows, one at Ayden and the Jimi Cummins one as well, where I got super cute magnets. I attended a super cool birthday party at an indoor parkour terrain. At school we had a Christmas Concert, where mom teared up a bit. And Santa brought me me my bunk bed after I wrote a nice letter to him. We had our annual family tradition and we all went to see Cirque Du Soleil, it was fantastic as always. I worked on a lovely project for my school; a family traditions and activities poster which is hanging at school at the moment. We had lovely Christmas at my grandparents and day after at ours. Last but not least we saw the new STAR WARS, mom and dad made me a Rey costume and I had a blast and hundreds of people around did too. I felt like I was on the red carpet.
For Daddy’s birthday we took off to Tofino, taking perfect weather with us for 3 days. Three full days of running around Chesterman beach. Everybody was super happy, me going crazy with sand, water, and ice. Mom with photography (this is why there are not many pictures of her as the camera was glued to her). Dad was happy exploring beaches and looking for “bad lads” (bugs by Daddy).
My parents had some free time too, Dad reading and Mom playing with her new split camera app which made multiple Gingers on demand. The last day was epic. We built a massive ice castle, I almost lost my fingers from cold and Dad didn’t feel his for the next few hours. On the way home we stopped in the frosty forests to take even more pictures. You can see that all the photographs are either sunny-orange or snowy-white 😉
Tradition demands that I post a crystallized view, in 8 minutes phone quality video, of my 4th year. Enjoy!!!! ..and with my favourite background song
Gingers4 from beata kacy on Vimeo.
My first day of school was successful, I didn’t cry and my parents almost managed not to. First 2 weeks was uniform free and in the old school. Today we entered the new school with big enthusiasm and big smile on the faces wearing our uniforms. Fun!!!
At the end of the summer we had visitors from Montreal my dear Tia Rosa and Josee and from Toronto aunty Nancy. It was to my dad’s surprise that Rosa is not a Nun. Why? Mom has been calling her Sister for ages and since Mom doesn’t have a sister, Rosa must be a Nun 
Mom has known Rosa for the last 20 years, since they both enjoyed living in London when they were young.
Anyhow we had lots of fun together, swimming, baking and exploring. Rosa is like a scientist, she loves experiments and my mom was just running behind us cleaning the mess 😉 ( just a little)
Mom met Nancy about 15 years ago in Vancouver. Nancy was a great climber and they did some epic climbing trips together.
We all celebrated mine and Rosa’s birthday together. It was small party this time, Grandparents, Greg and Tomo, Rosa, Jos, Nancy and of course parents.
Video of one of the experiments below.
Rosa and Ginger as Scientists from beata kacy on Vimeo.
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