We are finally in San Francisco. I earned two more badges, the first badge was with a friend named Caitlin at Marin Headlands. Marin Headlands is over the Golden Gate Bridge. The second badge was from the Maritime Museum with 4 more friends. They were Caitlin, Jillian, Miles, and Olivia. The Maritime Museum is in the city down at the wharf.
The next place we are going to is Yosemite and we are going to meet Caitlin and her family there again with other friends. After Yosemite we will be backpacking out in the Eastern Sierras. We have to hike for 6 miles to set up camp.
I feel pretty bad for the town of Middleburgh because it was a really nice place to live. It had a flood because so much rain going down the river. It got so big that it hit another town where my great grandpa lives. I feel pretty bad for them. I hope the horses and cows and dogs and cats are O.K.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Olympia and Mount Rainier
When we went to Washington we stayed with my cousins named Stacy and Paul in Shelton, WA. While we were there I helped their garden grow by giving it water. We went Kayaking on Puget Sound and we loved it. We liked it so much that we wanted to go again but I was freaked out because I kept going farther out in the current. Stacy and my mom told me to paddle my right paddle to come back in and I did but to help me turn even more I had to put my left side in to help me turn left all the way back to shore.
We also went hiking to Staircase Rapids, in Olympic National Park. We went on a ranger led hike with Ranger Jeff. He taught me about spittle bugs, banana slugs, caterpillars and showed us baby Osprey's trying to flap their wings. He told us that banana slugs can get 2 feet long. We also learned that people came here and hunted down elk for just four teeth to use in jewelry for the Elks Club. I said if I was in the Elks club I would want to have that jewelry but not kill the animal. It's not good to kill an animal just for it's teeth. They left piles of dead elk everywhere because they didn't use the rest of the body. It would be better to find a dead animal and use those teeth instead of killing an animal. It made me feel very bad because they killed them for no reason and wasted their body. I think that is part of the reason why this area became a national park.
While we were there we went to our friends wedding. Jen and Timmy were married in Olympia on a farm. I played games at the wedding and I took a tractor tour, it was so fun. When my mom went on the tour there were a lot of other grownups that went on too. When she came on I started talking on the speaker because I had gone on the tour before. I told everybody about one baby cow and how he was a year old. The tractor was green and the trailer was wooden brown. It went through trails in the woods where there were a lot of cows. Some of them followed the tractor. After the tour we went to go dance, we took pictures in the photo booth with a lot of my friends, my mom, and Jennifer and Timmy.
We left Stacy and Pauls and went to Mt. Rainier. We saw two foxes at a lookout on the snow. One was sitting looking at the people, one was behind the tree on the snow. People fed these foxes so now they sit and keep waiting for food and they could die because these people fed them and they forget how to hunt. The signs say a fed animal is a dead animal. When the foxes were begging the people were looking at them and taking pictures.
When we went to the first visitors center at Paradise, there were no animals. It was really foggy so we couldn't see Mt. Rainier. There was a lot of snow on the ground. I started playing snow ball fight with my Mom and some other kids. In the visitors center we watched a movie about Mt. Rainier, and went to a ranger program on climate change. After the ranger program a ranger gave me my Junior Ranger Booklet to work on and we explored the visitors center. When we left Paradise we drove down the mountain and then we started seeing Mt. Rainier. We headed to the Ohanapecosh visitors center to turn in my Junior Ranger Booklet and receive my badge. I also always get to keep my booklet.
After I received my badge we went hiking behind the visitors center, then we drove to go see Mt. Rainier at the Sunrise Visitors Center. Oh my gosh it was so beautiful because we got to see Mt. Rainier and it was humongous and we even got to see the top of Mt. Rainier. I took some pictures with my moms camera.
When we were driving down we were worried that we would run out of gas, but luckily we survived and we didn't run out of gas. We finally got gas at the gas station in the second town. When we saw Mt. Rainier from the town we saw this brown horse chasing this black horse to play with him. We started taking pictures of those horses and the brown horse was being a really great poser for my mom. Mt. Rainier was behind them so we got them both with Mt. Rainier behind them, YEAH!
When we saw those horses we remembered we had to get gas so we went and bought gas and came back to take pictures. Then we had to go to a friends house named Tyler. I'll write more about that later. Bye, Bye.
We also went hiking to Staircase Rapids, in Olympic National Park. We went on a ranger led hike with Ranger Jeff. He taught me about spittle bugs, banana slugs, caterpillars and showed us baby Osprey's trying to flap their wings. He told us that banana slugs can get 2 feet long. We also learned that people came here and hunted down elk for just four teeth to use in jewelry for the Elks Club. I said if I was in the Elks club I would want to have that jewelry but not kill the animal. It's not good to kill an animal just for it's teeth. They left piles of dead elk everywhere because they didn't use the rest of the body. It would be better to find a dead animal and use those teeth instead of killing an animal. It made me feel very bad because they killed them for no reason and wasted their body. I think that is part of the reason why this area became a national park.
While we were there we went to our friends wedding. Jen and Timmy were married in Olympia on a farm. I played games at the wedding and I took a tractor tour, it was so fun. When my mom went on the tour there were a lot of other grownups that went on too. When she came on I started talking on the speaker because I had gone on the tour before. I told everybody about one baby cow and how he was a year old. The tractor was green and the trailer was wooden brown. It went through trails in the woods where there were a lot of cows. Some of them followed the tractor. After the tour we went to go dance, we took pictures in the photo booth with a lot of my friends, my mom, and Jennifer and Timmy.
We left Stacy and Pauls and went to Mt. Rainier. We saw two foxes at a lookout on the snow. One was sitting looking at the people, one was behind the tree on the snow. People fed these foxes so now they sit and keep waiting for food and they could die because these people fed them and they forget how to hunt. The signs say a fed animal is a dead animal. When the foxes were begging the people were looking at them and taking pictures.
When we went to the first visitors center at Paradise, there were no animals. It was really foggy so we couldn't see Mt. Rainier. There was a lot of snow on the ground. I started playing snow ball fight with my Mom and some other kids. In the visitors center we watched a movie about Mt. Rainier, and went to a ranger program on climate change. After the ranger program a ranger gave me my Junior Ranger Booklet to work on and we explored the visitors center. When we left Paradise we drove down the mountain and then we started seeing Mt. Rainier. We headed to the Ohanapecosh visitors center to turn in my Junior Ranger Booklet and receive my badge. I also always get to keep my booklet.
After I received my badge we went hiking behind the visitors center, then we drove to go see Mt. Rainier at the Sunrise Visitors Center. Oh my gosh it was so beautiful because we got to see Mt. Rainier and it was humongous and we even got to see the top of Mt. Rainier. I took some pictures with my moms camera.
When we were driving down we were worried that we would run out of gas, but luckily we survived and we didn't run out of gas. We finally got gas at the gas station in the second town. When we saw Mt. Rainier from the town we saw this brown horse chasing this black horse to play with him. We started taking pictures of those horses and the brown horse was being a really great poser for my mom. Mt. Rainier was behind them so we got them both with Mt. Rainier behind them, YEAH!
When we saw those horses we remembered we had to get gas so we went and bought gas and came back to take pictures. Then we had to go to a friends house named Tyler. I'll write more about that later. Bye, Bye.
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