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I bet this is what everybody is talking about tonight, and you certainly don’t have to read my blog tonight, but here it is anyway. Today when I woke up I remembered my weird dream, which was about Christmas. And after I woke up I was surprised, like “what happened,” and then I saw my room and thought, this is the real Christmas.After that I went downstairs, and opened up what was in my stocking. It turned out that I had some very interesting presents in there, and it was the first time I received a pack of candy, besides Pez. Later after everybody shuffled down-stairs, we were opening the big presents ( the ones under the tree, not necessarily meaning they were big) and I opened mine too, first the book The Hobbit,which I had read before, but that was a library book and I wanted to own it. The next presents I opened were a little decorated box, handcrafted in India, and had something to do with Boulder, Colorado, where I lived from the summer of 2005-2006, and a Lego matching thing that my sister bought at her school-Christmas shopping. The last presents I opened are electronics, one an iPod dock and the other a Gateway laptop which I am entering my first post on right now! This Christmas I am very happy, and nobody was too severely sick, either. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas just as I did. Also, if you are a common reader of Green-Flamingo, I would enjoy reading the blogs of my viewers, so just enter a comment to show me to your sight.

 To all my new viewers that I have picked up from links, welcome! Read all past posts to catch up on things. Now, as I said last night, tonight I will tell you about the Cirque du Soleil show I saw. Here it is: Yesterday we started off from the house and had our two-hour drive to New York City, where we dawdled around until the show began. When we got into the theatre, ( the WaMu theater at Madison Square Garden), I already had that magical feeling, seeing the massive set and with the ice layers. The show we saw was called Wintuk,and it was basically about a boy who wanted it to snow, of course with Cirque adding to it all their tricks. It started a scene with all these people skateboarding, and rollerblading just like in a skate park, except this ground gave you the impression of ice. The following scenes carried on with their tricks, first some about a pickpocket and cycling police, who was an interesting character because his tricks and “policemanness” combined. After that there was juggling, a person who looked like a doll, but was really an extremely flexible human. There were more, some acts are just to hard to explain. I will tell you one thing though, at the end it snowed, all over the audience! Since we were close to the stage, we caught a lot of the little paper snowflakes. This was a wonderful experience which I will treasure. I hope you all have a chance to see something like this, sometime, maybe you already have! Oh, one more thing I forgot but I know you’re wondering. Presents! Just to tell you, and to get your mind away from it I got a Indiglo watch, a Canon powershot A560 camera (I’ve been taking pictures all day with it), a mystery type book, Inkheart, and a memory card to go with the camera! From my dad I received a very bright flashlight which can be used as a weapon, and sometime soon we’re going to shop for a scientific calculator. Well, that’s about all I have to say, and again, feel free to comment on anything related to these subjects.

So, as I told you yesterday, today is my birthday, December 19th! And, if you read my previous post, I said I would be going to see Cirque du Soleil. And I did. In the morning when I woke up, I lay there in bed and thought about all my birthdays from the past, for a few years how I would come downstairs and see a  on the wall the age I was turning in rope lights (for example: if I was turning 6, there would be a 6 on the wall). Also on the wall there may be a little printed poster saying something like ,”Happy Birthday Nathaniel,” with some animals by it. I thought about all the different presents I received in the past, and retrieved a small Emu called “Emu,” and Orangutan called “Chili,” from below my bed. This is all I have time for tonight, I’ll tell you about the Cirque du Soleil show tomorrow. But please, leave comments on your memories of past birthdays, even if you are 100 years old and your birthday is in July. 

Here’s a little something more. I would have put it in with the last post, but that would have made it sound bad. So guess what? Tomorrow is my birthday! And we are going to Cirque du Soleil. I’ll tell you all about it demain. (“Tomorrow” in French).