• Oct. 11, 2006 - The Camping Trip
We took our camping trip later than planned. We went to River City Campground October 5-8 and the kids learned a lot and we had a great muddy time!
The biggest reason I take them camping is to get them closer to nature and to help them become more aware of plants and animals. I usually take them camping to learn about living without electricity, but this year we stayed in cabins as you'll see by the pictures. Even though they were really only one room, the kids still had acess to a bathroom with flushable toilets and showers. We hadn't had that in the past years! I am just getting too old to pitch tents alone!
We were also extremely blessed to have a COOK the entire time! Mrs. Craig organized all the food and pulled it off, too! I was free then to just spend time teaching the kids. It was a great time of learning!
One of the favorite fun things we did, that had no educational purpose at all really, was to tell them there was a rare Timbuktooian bird in the forest. My daughter-in-law and I hid bags of jelly beans and various colors of feathers. We hid three purple feathers and I told a story about how the Timbuktooian was now extinct but that I was told one still existed in the forest and we were going to go hunt for the eggs. If they found feathers and especially purple ones, they were very rare. The people with purple feathers got a prize. The kids loved it, and the first grader quizzed me all weekend trying to figure out if he was real or not. He knew he wasn't but it was a lot of fun hearing his logic at work figuring it all out!
Enjoy the pictures!
 Meal time!
 Our cook, Mrs. Craig and the teens.
Mrs. Kara Akins, Miss Val, Pastor Mary and Janie
 Bubbles were a big hit at the camp out!
 Getting ready to go fishing the old fashioned way!
 I never did find the right name for these mushrooms. If anyone knows what they are, e-mail me or leave a comment! They make a great smoke when you squeeze them. I didn't let the kids do it, though, in case they were allergic or they were toxic, which disappointed them greatly.
 Mrs. Craig cooking pancakes early in the morning.
 The whole group loves chess. It's a real hit and it tickles me that they enjoy it so much because it is so good for them!
Isaac and Reese about to play checkers. Reese looks pretty determined!
 Inside the cabin that one first place for cleanest cabin!
 Hawthorne Berries? Elderberries? If you know what these are, please leave a comment or e-mail me!
 Cute kids and a cute cabin, too!
 Fungi -- any ideas what kind? Shelf? Please contact me if you know! I love the lines in this picture with all the logs going different directions.
 Fungi! (Again!)
 Hot on the trail of a Timbuktooian!
 Reese working on his nature journal.
 Janie reading another horse book. She rarely puts those down!
 Brandon found a rare Timuktooian feather!
 I've yet to meet a boy who didn't love to throw rocks into the water!
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