The Somme Centre

Today I went to the Somme Centre with my Grandad. When we arrived the first thing we saw was a World War One machine gun with sandbags all round it. We were looking around the place when the tour guide came over to us and asked if we would like to have a tour.

We went on the tour and we walked to France. When we got to France we went into the trenches. We had to walk all around the trenches in the battlefield. We saw the place were they would have eaten their food. They had corned beef and stew to eat. We saw the hospital too. There were lots of hand grenades going off and snipers shooting and machine guns firing so it was very noisy. There were also bombs going off.

The trenches were scary. Plus my Grandad pretended there was a rat running up my leg because the guide said 'be careful of the rats!'. At the gift shop you could buy a Victoria Cross.

My friend Ryan

Yesterday my friend Ryan, who lives in the USA, came over to play with me. He is here for a holiday at the minute.

When he was here, we went golfing at Knockbracken golf range and we watched the Winter Olympics edition of Top Gear. The funniest bit of the DVD was when one of the presenters shot down a tree instead of hitting a target. Ryan and I laughed our heads off at that!

Today Ryan is getting on his plane to go back to America. I think he is coming back before Christmas. I am looking forward to seeing him again then.