Catching Up With Connie

Hiya! It's me Connie! Well, I have not written in a LONG time. (I blame Mom) Since I wrote last, life has been good, nothing to complain about. We went on a trip but Belle already wrote about that so I get to talk about school.
School has been OK. My grades did dip at one point. I was not doing well at school, I was on very thin ice with Mom. Every day after school I would get the same lecture. It went a little like this,
"Connie, if grades don't get better you will go back to school!" said Mom.
"But I don't want to go to school!" I said.
"Then improve your grades!" Mom said.
Every day I would get that lecture. Some days it went longer and it always ended with, "Improve your grades"
Then we discovered two things, if I work upstairs and listen to my music I do pretty well at school, or at least better than I was. I have not been threatened with public school in quite at bit. The one thing that is not so great about listening to my music is that I have to listen to Mom always saying how much she doesn't like me working with music. She does NOT like the music I listen to. I like rap and she hates in SO much but my grades are doing pretty well so she puts up with it.

Biltmore with Belle

Hey. This is Belle. I know we have not posted in awhile, but you can blame my mom for that.
A few weeks ago, for my Grandmother's birthday, we went to, The Biltmore House! It was so exciting!
We woke up that morning around seven 'o clock and got ready to leave. We went with our Aunt Lisa, our cousin Jillian and of course our Grandma ( and all of us ). Connie and I rode with Aunt Lisa and Jillian. It took about 3 and a half hours to get there.
When we finally got there, we took a few minutes to take pictures of the house from the outside. You are not allowed to take pictures inside the house ( even though we snuck a few ). We also took one BIG family picture in front of the house.
When we went inside, it looked amazing! The furniture was so perfect and there were paintings everywhere!!!!! The dinning room look fit for a king! The library was so big. I have never seen so many books at once in my life!! After a few more rooms we went upstairs. The stairs were very curvy and there were a lot of them.
There were so many bedrooms. Of course for the family, then a lot of guest rooms. After we were done upstairs we went to the.......... basement! It looked like a dungeon. There was a room with paintings on the walls. My favorite of the whole house was the swimming pool! It had no water in it, but it looked like it was 20 feet deep!
After we looked at the house we went to get a snack then looked at the gardens. We all posed with statues. It was so funny. Even Grandma posed!
After that, we went to a little village. It was so cute. We went to a petting zoo. Bram thought it was so funny that he could touch the animals. We walked a little more then went to eat at a place called " Cedric's Tavern ". The Vanderbilt's dog was Cedric. I ate fish and chips and tried new things! When we finished eating, we headed home. We got there around 9 'o clock. It was such an awesome trip!

Thanks for listening! This is Belle, signing off! :)