Car spys

I was riding my bike down my driveway on Saturday afternoon and when I was halfway down my driveway a orange car pulled in from the road and parked next to the abandoned house next door. We raced inside and told Mum and she said to wait until it came further down. I thought the people were going to ask about buying the mill house next door as people have done this lots of times before.

We waited and waited but they didn't come any further down and we thought it would be a good idea to not go further down the driveway. Both my sisters and I watched. Mum suggested we write down the number plate, however we couldn't see the numbers. Rachel got the binoculars and we still couldn't see. We felt like car spys.

Then I had a great idea to go through the mango trees to our raintree cuddy house where we could watch closer. Two men got out of the orange car. One was wearing a green shirt and brown shorts with dark brown hair. The other man had a yellow shirt, green shorts and light brown hair. They had a look around, took something from the back of the boot and jumped back in the car with the thing from the back of the boot and drove on the grass closer the our other neighbours house.

They got out again looked around and looked through the mangoes that we were spying from under bush cover. They got back in their car and drove off onto the bitumen road and turned towards town. They seemed to be looking at the houses and the mangoes and the sugar cane. This was really exciting and my sister kept telling me that we should go home as she was worried that they would come down the mangoes after us.

K'nex car racing

My Dad and I are having a competition on who can make the fastest car out of my knex and rubber bands. So far we have made about eight changes and modifications to our cars.

We have changed the wheel size, the rubber band length, the length of the car, gears and rubber bands systems. We race them to see who's is faster after we make changes. Then we both work on the cars and make new changes - take away or exchange or put on new parts.

My Dad made another car powered by catapault power and it is like an automatic attacking machine when you wind it up because the catapault is pulled back and then it flings forward and then smashes everything in its way. We have made our own power system using cogs and rubber bands.

My Dad ordered new pieces for our cars because we were running out of pieces that we could put on our cars. The parts that have come today are different to what we have been working with so far so hopefully they will make our cars faster.<