Finally we are back from the much anticipated road trip – the Giant Causeway Road Trip. It was just amazing. I could not believe my eyes when I saw the beautiful scenic beauties. Through the entire road trip we saw amazing natural landscapes, bubbling stream and breathtaking waterfalls.

As we started our road trip, mumma said it is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Northern Ireland. When I asked her, what is a world heritage site, she explained that a world heritage site is place – a building, monument, desert, mountain or anything that has some physical or cultural significance and is marked important by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

It was about a hundred miles and as full of spectacular sceneries. It is centred around the nine gorgeous glens (valleys) of Antrim and is considered to be the most scenic drives in the world.

The drive starts from Belfast and ends in city of Derry-Londonderry. We started from Belfast quite early and then drive through the Gobbins Cliff Path to reach the famous Giant Causeway. On the way to the Giant Causeway, there are many spectacles that include the 12th-century Carrickfergus Castle in Antrim (it is the oldest in the Northern Ireland), the Gobbins, the amazing Mussenden Temple which stands on the edge of the sheer drop overlooking the Downhill Beach and many more.

One thing that I liked the most was the long stretches of beach, almost 6 miles (mumma said). I had a lot of fun on the beach making sand castles, playing in the water with mumma and dadda.

But the centre of attraction was surely the Giant’s Causeway. The name sounds quite weird, so I asked dadda why it is called so. He said there is a small legend behind the name – there were two giants Finn Mac Cool and Benandonner. Finn Mac Cool was challenged by Benandonner to fight him; Finn accepted the challenge and made built the causeway so that they can meet to fight each other.

But then Finn realises that Benandonner was much bigger and stronger than him. So to scare away Benandonner, Finn’s wife disguised him as a baby and tells that it is Finn’s baby. Seeing the size of the baby Benandonner gets scared thinking that his father must be a huge giant and he runs away destroying the causeway, so that Finn couldn’t follow him. The huge columns of Basalt protruding from the ocean are the remains of the Giant’s Causeway.

This was the best road trip ever. We had a lot of fun clicking pictures, eating at local restaurants and playing. We also saw a variety of sea birds at the Gobbins Cliffs. One thing that I want to share with you all is that we were staying in a cottage in the countryside and it was excellent. The view was amazing and cottages looked very nice. I liked everything about the trip. I told dadda that I want to visit the Giant Causeway one more time.

Hello everyone! I am too excited this week. First, we are about to go on a trip this weekend and secondly I had the best birthday party ever! Yes I had my birthday this week and dadda and mumma planned an ‘Angry Bird’ themed birthday party. It was all too much fun.

I love playing Angry Birds with dadda, so he said it would be the perfect theme for my birthday party. Mumma made handmade invitation cards that looked like the angry birds and pigs and some even in the shape of the golden eggs. I helped mumma colour them and dadda wrote the invitation message inside them. I invited many school friends and a few children from the neighbourhood.

Everything else was also designed to match the theme. Mumma ordered a wonderful cake with pictures of Angry Birds on it. It just looked amazing and tasted yum! She also got cookies that had angry birds on them. The pig pudding the served in little cups with pig picture on them. They were perfectly green in colour! Birthdays are incomplete without candies, so dadda got the best candies for my birthday party.

The candies were wrapped in red papers and decorated as red angry birds. He also got some egg shaped candies that looked perfectly like the golden eggs. She alsoarranged for Angry Bird popcorns. The table was also decorated to match the Angry Bird theme.Everything looked so nice and perfect for the Angry Bird birthday party theme.

The entire living room was also filled up with Angry Bird and Pig balloons and decorated with Angry Bird banner and crepe paper decorations. Dadda got Angry Bird masks for us and also arranged for some tattoos. He also organised an egg-hunt game for us. He hid some surprise gifts inside the eggs, so everyone was sure to get something. For return gifts, mumma packed Angry Bird goodies like small Angry Bird balls, stickers, candies, etc. inside little bags. She packed the goody bags very nicely.

The party started around 7 in the evening and everyone arrived on time. All my friends were so excited to see everything decorated in the Angry Bird theme. When everyone arrived, I cut the cake. All my friends sang the ‘Happy Birthday to You’ song for me. The cake was delicious and I had two pieces. Then we got tattoos on our hands. All the tattoos were unique – I had a red bird, my friend got a pig, someone got a blue bird, etc. Then we played games and hada lot of fun. It was the best birthday party ever!

I also received a lot of gifts from my friends; I am too excited to open them. I am very happy; I hope we had birthdays every month, so that we could have so much fun every month. I had a great day and now I am excited about our road trip this week.