Winter Camp Part 2.5

OK, I'm taking a break.

Winter Camp Part 2

Well, 45 minutes after I got in the bus, we left the church parking lot. (It was a camp that oh.. what d'ya-call it.. Y'know- Sort of a camp were you learn about god and have fun. Anyway, I was sitting right by Peter and Noah, both very nice kids that I knew pretty well from Sunday School. Soon after we had gone a little ways, Peter started hosting a game of Mafia. I didn't know how to play, but they let me just learn as the game went on. Mafia is this great mystery game that I had a lot of fun playing, and if you want to look it up on the web, go for it, but I am NOT explaining it. It's very complicated, and I've had enough trying to explain it to my family. I'm getting off the point. We played Mafia for a while, and did Other Stuff, and then we got to WINTER CAMP!!!

Winter Camp Part 1

OK, so last Friday I left school right before lunch for camp pretty dejectedly; I was definitely having second thoughts about how much fun Winter Camp would be, knowing that the weather channel reported a low of 40 degrees where it was taking place. Even with the knowledge that there wasn't going to be any snow at winter camp, the suitcases were loaded on the bus and I got in the back and said goodbye to dad, I felt pretty exited.

Pre: Camp

I'm going to start working on some entries about Winter Camp, it might take a little while.

Sorry

Sorry I haven't posted in a million years, I was distracted and then I went to camp and then I was distracted again.

Beeeeach!!!

We just got back from the beach and had a whoopin' good time! Sorry I haven't posted for a while, there's been so many fun things to do. Ruth and I got some really good waves, and some really good dunks. One of the most interesting dunks for me was when we were on the top of this really big wave, sort of looking over the edge of of a cliff. I freaked out and pulled back just in time, but Ruth shot over the edge and plummeted head-downward into the water. about a second later, Ruth's boogie board shot up like 5 feet in the air. On one of the other waves that was sort of like a cliff that we did catch, I went over the cliff and sort of bounced off the water at the bottom. When Ruth and I both catch a wave, we like to lean towards each other and "link up" by holding on to each other's boogie boards. once there was a big wave that we both caught, and I was leaning over, getting ready to link up with Ruth, when my boogie board shot out from under me. It happened right when I had grabbed her boogie board, so I was still hanging on after I lost my boogie board. And believe it or not, I caught that wave feeling like a sidecar of a motorcycle holding on to Ruth's boogie board.

Zoo

Today we went to the Washington Zoo. It was really neat; my favorite animals were the beavers and the llamas. The beavers had this idea that they had to make a dam, as if they were living in the wild. It was so fun to watch them try to get the sticks up their little fake river, I felt as if I could watch them forever. The llamas were very active when we saw them, running around and tying their necks together. They were just climb all over each other, scrambling up someone's neck or trying to ride on each other's backs. We also saw a big ol' honkin hippo that would do nothing but eat, a scary tiger that was roaring strangely the whole time we were watching it, and some really pretty peacocks. There was a group of wild deer that you could see from the zoo, two fawns and about 6 does, that were fun to watch.

Washington D. C.

Well, we've been out here in Washington D. C. for about two days now. (We arrived Monday, at nine-o-clock) The 3-hour time change hasn't affected me as much as I thought it would.

Mom and Dad and Ruth and I are staying at this great little bed and breakfast hotel with creaky wooden floors and nooooo elevator. If you opened the door to our room and started to walk in, you would be in this sort-of long doorway with a ladder built into the wall leading up to the attic. Take one more step and there would be a sink to your right. the doorway opens up into a large room that has three beds in it. At the far end of the room there are a closet and a bathroom. It's fun to use the bathroom because there's no sink there so you have to go way over to the doorway thingy when you're ready to wash your hands.

Yesterday we went to the top of the Washington Monument and to the Natural History museum with Mom.

The natural history museum was really cool, We saw crinoids that were three feet long, a big tank of tropical fish, and a sculpture of a giant jellyfish in the sea section. We saw the real Hope Diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, HUGE quartz crystals, and too much more in the endless corridors of the minerals section. We were all getting museum-itus by then.

The views from the windows of the Washington monument were spectacular. You could see so far, even when it was as foggy as it was then.

Today we went to the Air and Space museum and saw really cool things like the first plane that ever flew or the actual thing that landed on the moon. We saw this very interesting airplane that seems like it's made of toothpicks and plastic wrap. It's completely human powered, and the video of it shows it going about the speed of a bike three feet off the ground.

We also went to the Capitol building, but it's time to go to bed so Bye-bye.

Survey

OK, Whoever voted Creamy Pasta for the survey, thank you for voting. I don't know if the reason why hardly anybody is voting on the surveys is that nobody reads by blog anymore or nobody likes the surveys or it's just confusing, but I think that I'll give up on them for now. Oh, and I almost forgot to say, on Christmas Eve I had Stuffed Sopapillas for dinner.

Happy New Year Every Body!!!

Good morning, 2008!

Mom and Dad are really tired because they stayed up till midnight!

There's a sign on Mom and Dad's door that says...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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(Oh, actually it doesn't have any weird symbols)