John Mikel

    Hey you guys! My blog is really late because the place I do my website with, weebly was really messed up. Well, today we got up did school and then went up to the room. Taylor web called Jake and Mrs. McBrayer. then while she was on the video mom got an email....... Taylor got a part for Lens Crafters! Yay! Jake and Mrs. McBrayer screamed! Then we did more school and went to Olive Garden. Then when we came back I played on the computer and Taylor got a audition for Thursday. So this Wednesday we will go for a Target callback ( We don't know if she got the part or not) and then on Thursday go to Lens Crafters and then go to her new audition and back to her Target thing if she gets the part. Well, That the news for now.

My shout out goes to Mom! Love you!! Your the best teacher in the world (for now)!!

- John Mikel

            Well, today we have a few stories and didn't stay in all day. Haha. Ok, today we woke up and drove over to Long Island - we went across the Brooklyn Bridge it was so cool, then we went to Coney Island and walked on the beach and went out on the pier. And its the first time I've been to the beach with a coat on. Well, it was a big beach bend really. But, its only open in the summer. And it was really big in the 50s and 60s. Well, while we were on the pier, we saw a guy pull back a sting ray with a fishing rod. It was so cool. Then we saw him sling him over the side of the pier and just heard a "Plop"! Then we went to Nathans hot dog place...... That was an experience in itself - just making me think about that food makes me wanna...... go on a diet. This is the restaurant where the worlds hot dog eating contest is. The winner of last year ate 66. I couldn't even eat one. It was so gross and it was so crowded..... it was like Grand Central Station crawling all up and down that place! Well, after we tried to eat we drove to Staten Island and crossed the bridge back to Secaucus or home for now. Then I built a house out of cards - its my hobby and my talent now! Then I video called my twin cousins in Chicago and I also saw my other cousin in Russellville. Well then we ate outback and I played on Club Penguin. Haha.

My shout out goes to the Sewells!

- John Mikel

          Hey guys!! We didn't do much today, just wake up do school and then go to Dunkin Donuts then to Olive Garden after a while in the hotel playing around. But, we didn't go to Olive Garden,  we just went to Burger King. Then to the grocery store and we got back and played Scrabble, Tay was in last with 105 ( She forfitted ) then mom came in second with 166, and I won with 271! ( I am so awesome!)Haha. Well, we haven't done nothing today.

My shoutout goes to my aunts, Julie, Kelly and Donna.

Writing the shortest blog ever, John Mikel.

 

 

           Hey guys we didn't do that much today.... Well we got up and me mom and Taylor went to Burger King and it was so gross we waited forever because they were training new employees and they got the order wrong like 5 times and had to throw it away.... then we got it and the cheese wasn't melted and the tomatoes were frozen and on top of that the heat in there was broken and we heard the manager say it was 64 degrees in there. Then we left, went back to the hotel room and I video called my class. Yay! Then I did school and video called Mrs. McBrayer and my grandma! Then I played scrabble with mom.

Whats your guys' favorite board game?? Leave me comments and tell!!

My shout out today goes to Megan and Luke....... (My dogs!)

- John Mikel

        Oh my goodness!! I just typed a really long blog and clicked backspace and all of it was gone!  Sorry you guys!! The clock kinda got ahead of me tonight!! Well, like I said before we went to get a bus to go to a real estate place for Trump and we looked some and saw some really cool apartments! Then we caught another bus and we went to the hotel room and Taylor left to go to an audition with dad. Then while Tay and Dad were gone me and mom set up the webcam and I video called my grandma then after I hung up... Taylor called.... They were stuck in Manhattan. Because there was a big traffic jam and there bus was delayed and on and on. Well they got back about an hour later and we sent them back out to get Chipotle for us. When they came back we ate and then watched tv. 

My shout out today goes to the button pushing lady at the CVS camera machine. I hope someday she sees this and knows I'm talking about her... But if not I still know she is somewhere in this big world pushing buttons over someone else's shoulder ( Wonder if they will back her up quickly like my mom did)...

- John Mikel   

            Hey you guys! Well, today we woke up and I spent most of my day doing school. Then dad took us to Olive Garden for lunch. Yum!! I spent  my time tonight loading pictures. I hope you enjoy them! We will be going into the city tomorrow for 2 of Tays appointments, maybe I will get more pictures or stories for tomorrow.

Also, Mrs. McBrayer just got a webcam for her classroom! So, I can talk to you guys on it tomorrow during school. Yay! I might try to do some video blogging too! And, Taylors webcam on her laptop does all these different type of looks to it - so you can make it look like you have a big nose or little eyes and a big head! It made me laugh so hard today!!

My shoutout today goes to my homeroom class! You guys rock!!

- John Mikel

 

     Hey guys! Well, my blog is kinda late so sorry! Today we went to look at apartments and then to Taylor's auditions. She said she did really good. YEAH! The apartments we looked at were on the Hudson River. Some of them were really neat. Some of them were not. Well, after looking at the apts. we rode on the PATH Train (subway) under the Hudson River and through Ground Zero right through the construction site of the new Freedom Tower. It was kinda scary, but fun at the same time. We then caught a taxi, not the cash cab, and made it to Taylor's audition right on time. After that we went to Chelsea Market. It is a really cool old warehouse that has been turned into a mall with lots of bakerys. I got a cupcake from Ruthy's Bakery. It was really cool.... it had Big Bird on it. Ha-Ha. They had lots of really neat cakes. I think they were neater than Ace Of Cakes. There was one that looked like a stack of diapers for a baby shower, and another one was a full wedding dress! There was also one that had a lot of Webkins on it. They were really fun to look at; and really good to eat too!

    Well it is kinda late so I have to go to bed now. We are watching Law & Order now. They film these in NY. We saw one being filmed one day by the Flat Iron Bldg. Tomorrow, Chelsea Market is going to be closed because they are filming a new Universal Studios movie there. Wonder who will be in the movie? Oh well...... keep reading my blog! I really love to hear from my friends; I really miss you guys and my school..... Leave me comments and tell me what your favorite TV show is!

My shout out tonight goes to Mrs Bilbrey! Thanks for leaving me lots of comments!!

        Hey!! Today we didn't get out much.... we did a lot of school work!! Ugh! We woke up, got our books, and went down to the hotel lobby to do our work. We worked for a few hours and while we were working Dad left to go get a pizza and to look around some. He came back with a HUGE pizza! There was so much that we shared with the people working at the front desk in the hotel.....that is so, Dad! We went up to the room and ate some pizza. We worked on spelling some while in the room. I wanted to go upload my camera at CVS so that I could post more pictures for you. You know how sometimes things seem like they are just going to be a "quick trip" so you don't really take the time to get, "fancied up" to go? Yeah.... this was one of those times. We uploaded all of my pictures and waited at least 15 minutes for the disc to burn.... and the computer messed up! We had to re-do the upload about 6 times until the lady behind the counter just gave up and left the store! Her shift was up and she was probably like, "hallelujiah, I can go home and leave the madness of these Kentucky weirdos!"  Well, it shows that CVS is a really customer friendly store! Then... came George! He comes, waddling up to us and tries to help. He has us load the memory card at least 3 more times.... because, of course, he thought it was our fault; not the machine's fault! This was all happening while Tay and Dad uploaded their camera and it worked the first time on their machine. Finally, when they were done, and there was a long line behind us, (more on that later...) George moved us to another machine. Funny thing, it worked the first time.... it was the CVS machine broken and not the Kentucky Weirdos! During the chaos, a lady came up, reached over mom's shoulder and just started pushing buttons trying to load her camera at the same time..... needless to say, mom backed her up quickly!! She didn't speak English; so we really don't know what her response was!! ha! Well, after mom's altercation with the CVS button pusher, we went back to the hotel for more school work.... I think my trip to CVS should count as PE today, considering the physical activity! But, overall George was nice (he didn't walk out on us) and even gave us credit for the 16 times our upload didn't work.... including the pictures the button pushing lady loaded on top of our order! We were there so long that the lady next too us on the other machine, grabbed a Snickers and ate it and Taylor took a bottle of water out of the cooler and drank it.... Of course, we both paid when we paid for our pictures....

Whew, what a Monday! The rain didn't stop us from having fun! It all goes to show, that anything can work out if you find the humor in the situation. Did I mention, Dad bailed during the fiasco? He went to the truck and had tulips waiting for mom when she came out! He should have had a card that said, "as I was saying before the circus came to town...." ;-)

I wonder what Tuesday will bring? I'm hoping for more of the same! Tee-Hee!

My shout out today goes to God! He is so awesome, giving Taylor her talent and opportunity to use it and for me to be in New York! I love the city!

 ~ John Mikel

            Well  today we got up, went to the car and hit the road to get to the Museum of Natural History. Once we were in the car and we got to NYC, we got out and went to eat. When me and mom got the food, Taylor and dad went to a huge flea market across the street near Central Park. I called it the piece of Kentucky in New York. Haha. Well, when we ( me and mom) got the food we went to get a bench across the street and when we sat down, here comes Taylor down the street with her new Ray - Bans. And dad was walking next to her. Well, we ate and then went into the museum and took some pictures I might upload tomorrow. And you think it would look like the movie, Night At The Museum, it looks nothing like it. But I did see "Dexter" The monkey in that movie. We spent our day there and went outside and ate a snowcone and went to our hotel room and now we are watching tv. I had fun today in the museum! 

My shout out now goes to my best friend Aaron B!

- John Mikel

              Well, today as you can tell we went walking and my legs were hurting. Haha. Anyway, we went to get on a bus and we rode to the subway station and rode on it. Ok, we got our tickets then went down on a escalator to get down to the actual station and our subway came and it is like a fight to get on it because the doors literally stay open for like 5 seconds so people were craming to get on and we were just waiting and getting on last, and the doors closed and it was flying! So we waited until the next train came, got in the most crowded car there was. And it was so packed that you couldn't breathe and when it took off, mom almost went down! It jerks really hard! Then on the next stop, we knew to hold on tight before it takes off. Haha. Then we were gonna go to the Museum of Natural History, but we chose to walk all the way around Central Park, not just a little look like yesterday. Well, before we went into the park to walk we ate, I ate a snowcone, and Taylor ate a hotdog, while mom and dad ate a pretzel. We fed some birds and got really good pics of them. Well, then we went to walk around Central Park, and watched some breakdancers put on a show in the middle of the park. Well, we basically spent our day there and we walked to the bus stop and my legs were killing me! Haha, when we got there I was so glad! Then, we went to our hotel room and watched tv. Thats all for now!

My shout out today goes to Mrs. Carrico!

- John Mikel