Thursday, May 29, 2014

Day Two - Magical Mendocino!

Happy Wednesday!

Our morning was pretty unorganized. We were expected to be at the dining hall at 7:30 for breakfast and the chefs were expected to be there at 7:15. Unfortunately, many of the students seemed to have excuses for sleeping in, and missing most of breakfast preparation. Both my cabin mates alarms seemed to not be working so, like many others, we struggled to get our clothes on and our bags packed before all the breakfast was gone. Todd, who yelled a very pleasing moose like call outside our cabin, woke us up. He then proceeded to take pictures (with his iPhone) of our beautiful morning hair. Fortunately, most of us arrived at breakfast (barely) on time and we had a choice of scrambled eggs, cereal, fruit salad, oatmeal and bagels. Yum! (And no one got eaten alive by spiders!)

After breakfast, we split into two groups. Half of us were driven to a trailhead and half of us were driven to a beach. Half of us went on a hike that took about two hours and the other half went sea kayaking. I went on the hike first. It was pretty uneventful apart from one of my peers finding and picking up a salamander. The salamander was probably scared out of its mind, the poor creature. When we finished our hike, we went straight to kayaking and the kayakers went to the hike. We had a choice of single of double kayaks (one person or two people). Getting into the water was not an extremely difficult task and no one capsized! Throughout our trip, we managed not to get stuck anywhere but running into each other was pretty common. Apparently, the other group was the same. My favorite part was going into small caves in the rocks and seeing a few seals.

When we returned to base, we had free time ( and are still having it now. I am choosing to spend part of it writing this blog) .  The cooking crew is making the dinner right now right next to me.  We are having burritos tonight!

-         Lane Fricke, 5/28/14           

Today we went kayaking and then on a hike. On the kayak trip we went through caves and up currents.  I was in my own kayak. We all got wet suits so we weren’t cold. After that we went on the hike, which was not very difficult. Then we came back to camp and had a fire building challenge. Hudson’s group won. After that we ate dinner, which was burritos. After dinner we are going to have a talent show. Then it is bedtime. It was a fun day.

-         August Rosedale
     
      Hi Mom and Dad,

We went sea kayaking today, and I was really nervous about being pulled into waves and stuff because I am not a very good swimmer. In the end it was actually really fun, and we saw a ton of seals. Then we went on a really easy hike. We came back to camp, and it was my groups turn to cook, which was surprisingly fun. I just finished dinner, and it is getting really cold L. After dinner we have a talent show, and then we are going to bed. I hope I sleep tonight.

I love you, Clara

Hiya fam,

Today, my classmates and I went on a fantabulous sea-kayak adventure!
It was fantabulous because we got to paddle through aquatic caves, and because we saw some baby seals. Today was also my day to cook, and I made some delicious burritos. It was such a great experience. Julia jumped into my arms, and we posed for a quality photo!

See you soon, Isaac

Camping trip update to my parents!

Today I woke up to a raven at 2:32 and at 7:34 by Kelsey. I was almost late for breakfast, which was great! When everyone was done eating, cleaning, and packing their daypacks we headed fifteen minutes out of our campsite to get to the coast. Once we arrived we at the kayaking place we split in two and three groups went to go hiking and the other three kayaked. I was the first to hop in to the water. We went in through two caves and saw at least seven seals. We then traded activities and we left to go on a hike for one hour. When we were at the beach and about to leave I slipped on the gravel and now have huge scrapes on the side of my left leg L. We then went back to camp and hung around the camp for two hours. I took a shower so I don’t smell and then ate dinner. Once everyone ate we had our talent show and had some fun telling jokes and stories; I have a joke, what do you call a sleeping cow? A BULL DOZER!! Hahaha. After all that I am here writing this. See you on Sunday.

Jason out peace!

Hey family!

On the first day of the 8th grade trip, we go into car groups (mine was Lars, Jillian, Paulina, Julia, and Izzy.) and started the brief drive to Fairfax to go grocery shopping.  My team was assigned to cook spaghetti, garlic bread, and steamed broccoli.  After we had finished shopping, we all boarded our cars once more and continued towards Mendocino.  The drive was OK because I got to take a nap and read some Game of Thrones.  Once we had arrived at the campsite, Jonah and I were assigned to sleep in Cabin 4.  Everyone but me had a terrible phobia of spiders, which kept me awake all night long. The following day, I went kayaking with about half of my classmates.  It was a highly enjoyable experience and I hope that I can go kayaking in the future.  Afterward we went on an hour-long death march through the woods.  This hike was very tiring and dull.  We returned to the camp at a little past twilight, we also had a talent show around the fire.  That night when we went back to our cabins, Jonah decided to go and sleep with Isaac, Arlo, and Manny because he was afraid of a giant spider in our cabin.  The four of them were hitting sticks against trees and tents until midnight.  So far my trip has been above average, I’d give it 7/10 because we haven’t done anything that’s super memorable or fun.

Zach

Dear parental units!

On the first day we got into our car groups and rode up here. When we got here everyone was tired from to ride, so of course the teachers made us go on a hike. We hiked to a big tree that was almost 20 feet around, and took a class picture. For dinner that night we had pasta and it was great. That night we went on a night hike and it was scary but fun. The next day was even better; we ate breakfast and went straight to the beach. At the beach I went on a hike for an hour and then went ocean kayaking. When we went ocean kayaking we went on a little river and went in caves and stuff. It was awesome. Now we are going to trinity and I will update you when I get there. See you soon guys

Love Arlo

Hi Madre!

Yesterday we went sea-kayaking! There were lots of caves that we went in to explore. We also saw a family of seals! There are about a billion spiders and bugs here. Last night was the first talent show. We had s’mores to celebrate Eloise’s birthday (I gave her my card) and I was the first to perform my ‘talent’. I told a joke… Why couldn’t the flower ride his bike? Because his petals fell off! That was fun. Today is the drive up to Trinity, but tomorrow we are going to swim and collect trash. The next day is rafting! That will be fun.

Love, Daniella
P.S. 9:45!

Hi Family,

Right now we are waiting to leave to Trinity. It is very cold here and because of that I am having trouble writing this because of my frozen fingers. Yesterday I had lots of fun kayaking around the coast. We saw a family of seals playing in the water. We also had our first talent show where we shared poems, stories and jokes. See you Sunday!

Love, Eloise

Hey Familia!

We are waiting to leave to the next place now but it’s taking forever! Yesterday was so fun we went kayaking! We went through a bunch of sea caves and there were many families of seals it was adorable! Then had a whole class talent show. I’m showing my talent tomorrow night with the Fab Four hehehe! Eloise and I had a traumatic bug experience last night! The car rides are fun and I mainly sleep during them. We also finally got to take showers yesterday! Im having a really great time and miss you guys.

Love, Stella

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