My Lock 33

   On vacation we went on a canal houseboat on the Erie canal. At one point I got out and biked alongside the boat. When I got to lock 33, (a point where a boat can change elevations) the "Lock master" gave me a tour that included the machine that opens the water valves. In the machine, there were electrical relays. Later, when my parents radioed in to get in the lock and pass through, he let me answer them! Then when they got in, they were sealed in, then I got to fill the lock with water. Then I put my bike on top of the boat, said goodbye to the lock master, and floated away.

Moldy mold, and maybe some bread

7 days ago I put a piece of moist bread and dry bread in separate bags. Now the dry one has only a tiny spot of mold, but there is almost no moist bread left! It's mostly a huge pile of mold. Hairy mold. =P (ew!) That shows that moist bread makes more killer mold!

When I went to the Gateway Arch!

    For my birthday this year I went to the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri. I went to the absolute top! To get there, you had to go up in an elevator not unlike a space pod. It went up on one tilting track, so the "pod" had to readjust and tilt the other way about every 20-30 seconds.

    Did you know the arch is 630 ft high and wide? Cool, right? The arch was actually built as a monument to Thomas Jefferson. It's also taller than the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. When I was in the top of the arch, I could look out a slanted window and see so straight down, I could almost look at the other side!

Salem Poem

These trials are so wrong
The girls scream at naught,
And they see me to blame.
I have never bewitched
Though they accuse the fact.
I am put in stocks,
In place of the culprit.
They believe this nonsense,
To think of me with magic.
And now I am hanged,
All for the fun of a girl.

-Written by Trevor Liloia, age 12