Hmm... What do I Call this Post?

No idea.
Anyways...
Last time I talked I was in Madrid, about to paint on a wall. Now... well, I'm in Bilbao, and I painted my cousin's wall as a birthday present.
The wall had two horses and a flower. I think it was okay, and hope she'll like it (when she grows up of course, she's only 1 now).
So, I've come.
To Bilbao.
I'll come back to Melbourne on Sunday (well, at least go on a plane then, there's no knowing when I'm getting off). I have ANOTHER horse back riding lesson on Saturday (YAY!), and I have done some stuff lately.

Okay, so this was from Madrid, but I couldn't resist. It's my cousin's birthday cake (that I'm going to draw sometime), so cute (I picked it...)!

(Look down) A few days ago I went to see the Puente Colgante (exact translation "Hanging Bridge") otherwise known as Puente Vizcaya ("Vizcaya Bridge"). It's called the hanging bridge because there's this part of the bridge that's hanging from the top that's kind of like a ferry except (is the right word "flying" or "hanging"?). Anyways, the thing is HUGE (and dark red- crimson? It's for representing the location it is in), therefore hard to photo. I don't think this photo is too bad, though. It's pretty cool (with the weird perspective and it looking all black and stuff).

So these pictures are of (part) of the view from the bridge (I was 50m up), and one side is the (river?) with the city, and the other is part of the city with the ocean. It was nice (but cold).
Today I had a walk around the city (it was nice) and got the coolest (seriously, COOLEST) shirt ever (but nobody will get it when I get back home... sigh).
Since I don't have anything else to say...

I'll talk about KITTIES!
So far my favorite breed of cat is the Egyptian Mau (these two). Sure, I like persians and maine coons, but I like the sleeker cats because, really, the persians are so incredibly ugly they're cute (I don't know if that's a compliment...) and the maine coons  are plain ridiculous (too fance`, as I say, like fancy, but with an e sound).
I like the siamese (they're pretty), but so far these guys are the best (but I haven't been able to fully inspect my cat breed book, so). I like fance` cats (at least some of them).
Also, I really want to draw some kitties... in CARTOON! Remember Abby the Kitty? Well, cartoons like that.

 I just randomly remembered (well, not randomly, I started re-writing No Normal Horses as a picture book) these today, and decided to dig them out.
Anastasia...

 Idocus (who reminds me of some sort of dog in the drawing)...

(above) Brom the draft horse.
Kit, the innocent bystander.

 The dumbos (b isn't pronounced).

(my favorite) Sam, the younger child.
(below) Sean, the older child.

(technical difficulties) Onto the random picture!
That's a picture of the pavement in Bilbao. There's barely anything flat, just these flower things. It's the thing I think is most different (aesthetically) in different countries.

Yo!

I'm alive. Seriously.
In the time since I last wrote things have happened...
First was "The Three Kings". Two people have told me it's called Epiphany.
In Spain they have this thing where they put the three kings on carriages (or in parade floats, as in my case) and then have them just go through the whole city until they get to a building (in my case it was the town hall) and then sit down on thrones and have throngs of kids sit on their laps and tell them what they want for the next day.
Anyways, so me and my sisters went to see them at the way end of the trajectory. It was pretty awesome, but since there was so much light and my ipod's camera isn't very good I don't have very amazing pictures, so I'll only show a few.

This was the time when they first appeared around the bend. We had been waiting for an hour/ half an hour, and by then there were SO much people. I managed to stay in front and grab some candy (they were throwing candy, two hit me in the head and one smack dab in the middle of the ipod), as well as take some (not so great) pictures.

This is the only good picture from the day (as you can see in the background, the lights mess the picture up). I thought this was cute, there were three pirates and I shook hands with two (including this one in the picture).

Onto the next day: present day!
In my family we eat the "Roscon" (no idea what to call it in English) for breakfast (others eat it for dessert at lunch). Monkey got the first prize and Dad got a second one (because we ate more than one Roscon). Monkey's was a car and Dad's was a train.
What I got for (should I call it Epiphany?):
-A book
-a race car track
-some other stuff
That's it for that.
I'll move onto my projects.

I found this awesome picture of armor. This is real life. Now I know.

I watched the Hobbit a while ago, and that led me to look up Lord of the Rings armor. This was the only picture that I liked, because of the headpiece.
I will of course make my own version. The M2Anian version.
Also, I haven't started drawing armor yet (although I HAVE drawn a few things).

I was playing a design a horse game a few days ago because I was excited about a horse back riding lesson that was coming up (will add details later) and I (of course) picked my favorite color. Then, accidentally...

I pressed the grey. And it turned out I really liked it. So now I have to reconsider my favorite horse color.
Black appaloosa or grey appaloosa? I'll decide eventually.
Okay, about the horse back riding lesson...
Dad had arranged for all three of us to go horse riding. Problem was, Cat and Monkey got sick. Then, the day I was going to go riding, the aunt that was supposed to drive me there got sick as well (because she insisted on being with my sisters). It was also raining cats and dogs (meaning: it was raining A LOT- right now Bilbao is flooding in places).
So anyways, by some amazing luck, we got one of my other aunts to drive me there because she likes horses as well and knows where the farm is.

When I got there, my horse Pirate was already tacked up for me (since they didn't know what level of experience I have) and within ten minutes I was trotting. TROTTING. It took me half a year to get trotting last time I rode (8-9 years old, I got really frustrated with how slow the lessons were going then). Anyways, it was pretty awesome (except for the times that Pirate got scared of the tractor and went all over the place and even started cantering for a few seconds before I stopped him, but whatever).
The excitemen.t was also increased by the fact that since two other boys in my class hadn't cleaned their horses properly they were told to trot without stirrups and I misheard and took them off too. At first I was fine, but then suddenly Pirate started trotting the tiniest bit faster, and boom I was hanging onto his neck about to fall down. Luckily he had the common sense to stop and I dismounted (off his neck). So technically I didn't fall. But personally, it didn't ruin the lesson at all. Everyone was all surprised that I hadn't screamed or anything, and it's true- I just kind of held on and then slipped off. I'm weird sometimes, and thinking about it, the only other time I've had the threat of falling I didn't scream either (the horse stumbled, but luckily I didn't go over it's head). Personally, that time was much scarier than this. And I didn't even come off the saddle.
Anyways, other news...
I'm in Madrid right now. I came here on a bus, and today we've been in Valladolid to see some of Dad's friends (it was pretty good, I got a new fashion design book {I've already got a dress in mind}, we ate at a buffet, and we played with some kids).
Tomorrow is my youngest cousin's birthday, so we're staying in the house to celebrate (my sisters will be dancing with her, and I'll be painting flowers, mermaids, and horses on her walls). I think it will be nice. This is one of the horses I'm putting on the wall:

My style, of course.
Onto random pictures (yes, in plural, I can't help it)!

Alright, I was playing this game and I came up to this river. I love this river. Can you guess why (answer's next to the next picture)?

This softie is called "The Dollop". It's from a book called "Softies" that I own. I plan to make "The Dollop". It's cute.
By the way, the answer is that the river never goes past the trees. I always crack up when I see it!

Christmas is Coming!

Wooh! In Spain it is, anyways. In English it's called "The Three Wise Men". In Spanish "Los Tres Reyes Magos" (the exact translation to english is  "The Three Wizard Kings"). These three men ride all around the world on their camels to bring kids their presents on the fifth of January. Tonight we're going to see a whole float of giant carriage things bring them around the city. Apparently they will throw approximately 3 tons of candy, and the carriages will use up (600?) watts of electricity (there are seven: one in front, then one of the men, another there, another man, another there, another man, and then another there). Anyways, so then when the kids wake up on the sixth all the carrots that they left in their shoes are eaten by the camels, the bucket of water drunk, and under their shoes there are presents!
This holiday was made up because when Jesus was born a giant star appeared on top of his birthplace. The Three Kings then got on their camels, trying to find where the star comes from, and end up getting together. Right before they get to baby Jesus they have to surpass these three challenges (I think one is courage, another is like "bow to another opinion" or something, and another something to do with emotions), and then they get their golden gifts that they then bring to Jesus on the sixth. That might not be quite right, but at least I tried (from memory).
Okay, onto real life.

At midnight I took a picture on my ipod. I also meant to do it at 2:00 (in the afternoon), since that was when midnight was in Melbourne, but I was reading a book and only realized I had forgotten at like 2:36 or something. Luckily staying up didn't mess up my sleeping times, so that's good. I think it took about 2 days to get used to the time.

I'm pretty sure this was before New Year's, but one of my uncles really likes airplanes so he put together a group of carpenters and got them to make this model airplane, which is really cool (although really dusty).
I still cannot understand how airplanes fly. It's just too complicated. They're big giant lumps of metal, with only a stream of air to keep them going straight coming out the back, and wings that don't even flap! Those brothers that invented the airplanes... they were geniuses.
Since I don't have much else to say, I'll just get on with drawings.

I'm doing this thing called doodle a day, where I just got a planner with big pages to draw on and make myself draw something every day. I believe this was the second.

My favorite on that page is this owl- titled "Cute Owl".

It was inspired by this guy. I would have drawn more details, except I was tired and it was late and I'm not supposed to do more on that page any other day. I guess I could have re-done it, but whatever.

I love this page. It's just really random, and I like that.

I finished this a LONG time ago (like before I left Australia), but I kept forgetting to put it up. Anyways, Miss Kitty is finished, even if the sofa IS two different colors (somehow the colored pencil I was using got lost- and it was a good color, too) and I haven't signed it yet (I suddenly remembered yesterday and still haven't gotten around to it).

I also finished this girl on New Year's: the perfect time to be productive! (copyright M2A)
As I've said before, she might be a bit old, and her shoulder a bit too high, but whatever. I like her. She's pretty much the best human being I've done in all my life. Also, I managed to fit all of "Mars Est Scriptor Eligitur Unum" on the sword!
Last but not least I've come up with a name for armor of my design (the armor references are just REFERENCES, I'm actually trying to design my own): M2Anian armor (sadly I cannot use my real name here, so it shall be called M2Anian, which actually kind of sounds cool, if I know you you can ask me what it actually is, if you comment or email me).
Random picture:

CMM makes the best customs- whether they're Breyers or My Little Ponies!