Spring Break Plans

      My Spring Break plans are to sleep late Monday through Wednesday so I would be rested for the long ride to Mississippi the following Thursday. We are leaving between 10:30 and 11:00 pm because of my Orthodontics appointment that morning. We won't get to Mississippi till that night. That's why I need a lot of rest. Only time we are stopping is to use the restroom. We are eating in the car.
     
      We are going to Mississippi to visit family there. We are seeing my great aunt and uncle and my cousins. One of my cousins had a baby boy sometime last year so I get to see him. The last time we visited was when the youngest girl was just a baby. She is five years old now. The second oldest girl cousin is a barrel racer. She might be able to teach me how to ride a horse while we visit. They have a little Shetland Pony and my middle brother wants to learn how to ride, too.

      Next Saturday is my oldest brother's birthday. That day we are going to the Memphis Tennessee Zoo and they supposedly built legos to be there at the zoo that day. If it is raining, we will go to the huge Bass Pro Shop there. It is humongous! It has a hotel at it and a glass floor you can walk on outside. We will probably coming back that Sunday.

St. Patrick's Day

   
     St. Patrick's day is held on March 17th every year. It is a national holiday for Ireland. People will have a day off for work for this holiday. The color for this holiday is green and if you don't wear green, you will get pinched. At first blue was the color for the holiday but it changed to green because Ireland is called the "Emerald Isle." People would wear green ribbons and shamrocks on this day.

     St. Patrick's Day is named after a famous patron names Saint Patrick who had died March 17, 461 AD, but he was actually English. His given name was Maewyn Succat. If he did not legally change his name, this holiday would be called Maewyn Succat Day instead. He was caught as a slave when he was 16 and tended sheep. He had escaped back to England and became a priest then he took his teachings to Ireland.

     The reason why we get pinched on St. Patrick's day for not wearing green because people believed that if you wore green, the leprechauns can't see you. If you don't wear green, the leprechauns can see you and they will pinch you. We wear green on this holiday because it also represented the Irish culture. They came to America celebrating with this color on them.

My Animal

      If I was an animal, I would be a horse.  They are beautiful animals and fast runners that can go a long distance. They run track races and can run 2.4 km in a little under 1 minuet or barely over a minute. I'm not a track runner though, I run cross country. I'm not that fast but still can go distance. 

      Horses can run great speeds and still go long distance. The fastest 1 1/4 mile race by a horse was 1.59.4 minuets. When I run 1 1/4 miles, it takes me at least between 8 to 10 minutes to run that far. Secretariat Secretariat was the fastest horse in history of derby racing. This horse also became a Triple Crown winner.

The Triple Crown Race was a race for thoroughbred 3 year old horses. These horses was crowned when they won a derby race. I never completely won a race but I have been first, second, and third for girls my age in races. The third place was in an actual cross country race but the other two were fun runs for charity events. I like to run in charity events during the summer to help me get ready whats coming in September.