Road Trip

Well, I just took a road trip to Nebraska and back, and here are the pictures. (And the general story of the trip)
              
                                             Utah

This was in Salt Lake City, Utah. It's a huge organ with 11,623 pipes and is considered to be one of the finest organs in the world.

                                                              Wyoming
                                This is Devils Tower in Wyoming.

                 
     A closer up shot of Devils Tower. Here you can see the stone columns that make this a climbing hotspot.

                                                       South Dakota


                              This was in South Dakota. I think the picture pretty much explains itself. 

This is a big horn sheep with a death wish. It was standing in the middle of the road as you can see. Of course, I had to get a picture of it. :)

This is that big horn sheep walking past our car, completely ignoring us.

Mount Rushmore.

This is Crazy Horse Memorial. It has been under construction since 1948.

This is a rock spire in Badlands National Park.

Utah

This is a rather interesting something we saw somewhere in the salt flats, a 100 some-odd mile stretch of nothing.

And here's a picture of the salt flats. It's fairly blurry, as it was taken from a moving car, but you can pretty much tell that there's nothing much to see. We baisicly drove through around 100 miles of this.

Anyway, that's my pictures! Hopefully I didn't bore you TOO much. :)

My life

Well, I havn't posted in  a while, mainly because my life has been fairly uneventful lately, and because I suppose I need to post SOMETHING every once in a while, I'll tell you about what's going on in my life right now, however boring it may be. Okay, so recently I've been refereeing a lot, (for those of you who don't know, I am a soccer referee.) and have decided that I love tournaments. They're awsome because you get free food, extra pay, and you can take more games per day than usual. The tournament I just reffed in  was the Kick or Treat tournament, which was Halloween weekend, so a lot of teams had matching costumes instead of their regular uniforms. Other than lots of refereeing, I have been going on with life as usual, which means doing climbing, (I'm on the rock climbing team at City Beach.) soccer and band. My band, for those of you who are sadly uninformed, is a Venture Scout band, which means it's Boy Scouts, we get to choose what we do, and girls can be in it too.We are a jazz band, and we play regularly on the third Tuesday of the month at Pizza Patio, and we also do whatever gigs we have scheduled. There's also LARP going on of course, and I think most of you who read my blog know what LARP is, but if you don't, LOOK IT UP, as I am too lazy to explain it right now. I'll also be taking a road trip soon, so I'll post about that hopefully, but other than that, I'm probably not gonna be posting much. Hope you enjoyed my rather long and boring post on my life, but if you didn't, DEAL WITH IT. It IS my blog after all. :)

ROSS pics

Hey guys, here's the ROSS camp pictures!

What do you call a banana slug eating a moldy mushroom? A decomposer decomposing a decomposing decomposer! (Yes, I realize this mushroom isn't moldy, the mold was for the purpose of the joke. Just go with it.) This by the way, is a decomposer decomposing a decomposer. We found this banana slug on the ecological staircase, a trail that goes through multiple habitats, such as pygmy forests and redwood forests.

This is the beach at the end of the ecological staircase. The beach actually wasn't this dark; my camera just made it look that way.

One of the amazing tree stumps from the outside...

                                            
                                                     and from the inside.

Another tree stump! This one is the biggest stump in ROSS. Sadly I don't have a picture of it from the inside.

The cabins.

Our awsome bridge.

My friend and my brother being the scarydairyegg for a skit. The Scarydairyegg was an evil monster that hated green so it was burning down all the trees in the forest. It was a half chicken, half cow that threw exploding eggs. Their skit was very odd.

One of the amazingly advanced toilet paper holders.

That's all for right now! Hope you liked my pictures!

Camps

Hi guys! I know I havn't posted in a while, and I'm sorry. Anyway, my life has been pretty busy latly, with climbing, band and soccer all going at the same time. Anyway, here are some of the cooler things I've been up to: I just got back from ROSS camp, (I'm not sure what the R stands for, but I think the rest stands for Outdoor Science School.) and it was awsome. ROSS casmp is in Mendicino woodlands and is, as you may have guessed, near Mendecino. There were tons of banana slugs and stuff, and there were tons of huge redwoods, not to mention the awsome redwood stumps. (You'll hear more about the stumps in my next post. As I was the oldest student there this year, I got to be an assistant naturalist! It was pretty cool, and I think that one of the highlights was this hike where there were lots of huckleberrys. For those of you who don't know, huckleberrys are in the same family as blueberrys, and are a shiny black color when they are ripe. Normally huckleberry season is earlier in the year, but up near Mendecino it's colder, so the berrys grow later. Now, time to tell you about Venture Rendezvous. Venture Rendezvous is up near Willits, and is an awsome camp for Venture scouts where you get to do stuff like shooting guns, outdoor rock climbing and sailing. We stayed in these tiny tent cabins that could only fit two people, but they were pretty nice. My troop had the best cabin area, Sailors Rest. It was right near the waterfront and wasn't too far from the dining hall. My favorite activity there was probably the shooting guns. For the guns, you had to give the people running the ranges a ticket for every round. You got five tickets to start with, and you could buy more for 1$ each at the "Trading Post" There were multiple kinds of guns there: rifles, shotguns and black powder rifles. The one I spent the most time on was the rifles (I even shot a happy face into the target!). They had a big rifle range with shooting spots on one side and paper targets on another. We got ten shots for each ticket, and at the end of each round when everyone had used all their bullets, we all put down our guns and replaced the targets. I had a whole lot of fun at both camps and am posting pictures of ROSS camp soon.

BOOM GOAT

Hey guys, I just got back from the after camp cleanup party, where we ready the camp for the winter, and it was AWESOME! Though apparently the third session tags had a thing about Yugoslavia and goats. The goats thing though, led to "BOOM, GOAT!" because one of the little kids said that every time he opened something. So, my friends, BOOM, GOAT!!!!!! Oh, and also, everybody there gets their pick of the leftover food. We managed to snag plenty of candy, and a couple boxes of girl scout cookies.

Camp

Hey guys, I just got back from camp, so here are the pics! There will be more coming.

Here's the BIFFY: the Bathroom In Forest For You

Me in the back with my friends (from right to left) Malissa, Kimberly and Marisa.

My friend Malissa and Coco (one of the counselors, they all have camp names there.)

Me with my friends Malissa, Kimberly and Marisa.

Spock, Malissa and Coco.

Kimberly, Malissa and me at Silver Lake.

The amazing chair rock, with my friend Marisa climbing on top of it.

Me, with braids and my hat, but the camera was tilted so the pic looks weird.

The camp sign.

A map of the camp, I was in the Docker unit.

The Docker and Gypsy unit signs. This year both the Gypsy and the Docker

units were really small so they got combined.

Me with my friends, during the closing ceremony. Yes,

Malissa stole my hat.

My unit, the Dypsies.

The Two Sentinels.

YAY!! I just found a picture of a Green Spiky Thing! Here it is:

Awsome, is it not? Ah, yes, by the way, their seeds explode if you throw them in a fire! (I found this out as my friend Allison and I were expressing our inner pyromaniacs.) Oh, and apparently, the actual name for them is wild cucumber.