I'm Bored.

Ruth is at camp, so I can't think of anything to do, so I made this blog entry.

Winter Camp Introduction

OK, less description now, or I'll never get through the post. I slept in a cabin with bunk beds lining the walls, and the other kids that were in the same room with me were named Peter, a very smart kid who was friends with Noah, also in our cabin. Noah is very funny, and his "little line" that he used all the time was "NooOoO!!!". It was funny, because he said it in sort of the voice that you would use for saying "noooo.. really??" and also "noooo, duh!", but he mainly just used it for any time he wanted to give a negative response. The rest of the kids in my cabin were David, Owen, Drew, and somebody else, I don't remember his name. our counselors were named John and Anthony.

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.

Camping on the Channel Islands

I couldn't blog while I was camping, so here is a "late" blog entry of my camping trip:
July 17, 2008
Today is my birthday! AND WE'RE GOING CAMPING ON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS!!! Yesterday I got a chicken pox shot (which hurt when I got it), a tetanus shot (which was very sore when I got it and is going to still be a little swollen in three days (present time)), and a hepatitis A shot, that didn't hurt in the past, present, or future. Today at 46 minutes past midnight Mom woke me up to take a typhoid pill that has a nausea side effect. I got up in the morning and the nausea had started. It wasn't that bad. then we waited at the harbor for our boat to come, and got on the boat. We had just gotten out of the harbor when we saw this big red buoy packed with sea lions. some of them were shedding their fur, looking white and fluffy. Some of them were trying repeatedly to get on to the buoy but kept slipping off the backs of the others. We saw lots of dolphins, passed an oil rig, an enormous container ship with train cars stacked 5-6 high passed us, and then we got to Santa Cruz Island. We climbed trees, went on a hike, and came back and ate lunch and brownies.Then we went snorkeling. The water is so clear, it's like you're swimming in a fish tank! We saw some bright orange fish, light blue fish, and gray fish. We also swam through kelp forests, looked at thousands of bright purple sea urchins, but no coral. Ruth and I found this path made by a little landslide on a hill that is almost a cliff. We hiked up it and watched the sunset. We called that view channel 1. That is one of the best views I have ever seen. We turned around and admired the view on the other side. There's this place where the cliffs part and you can see the ocean. We came back the next morning to see the sunrise and what do know; the sun rose on that very spot. And did I mention the channel island fox? It was sooo cute!! here's a photo dad got of it:

Yep, that was definitely the best birthday party I ever had.