Trip post #1

Today we leave. My device doesn't blog, even if I had wifi, so don't expect posts until we get back. :D I slept in the camper with Dad, Mom, and Rachel. Rachel got the bottom bunk which is three times the size of the top bunk. I have no idea how that worked out. Its going to be a great trip! Over and Out...

Posting

You may have noticed my posts kinda halted for a while in there... I got an iPod and am hardly on the computer anymore. (Safari is disabled on the iPod so I can't post from there) but, here I am now. I am gonna post some.

We just returned from a 5 day trip to... the Wisconsin/Minnesota border! Even if it wasn't extremly far away we still had great fun. I have posted some pics below to show what it was like, after all... a picture is worth a thousand words. 

 Over looking the river. The St. Croix river.

 The river. :)

 One of the potholes this place is famous for. (you don't want one this big on your street)

 A little rock that we climbed to.

 Cooking hot sandwiches and pop pies.

 Me. =)

Fishing.  

 The river.

Drew, Me, and our famous 2 foot tinfoil dinner. After we had already eaten regular diner we came back and put all the leftover food in one big tinfoil dinner and ate it.

We had a great time. 

Interstate state park canoe trip on the St. Croix

I decided to upload the pictures from Interstate State Park in two different posts: canoeing and not canoeing. 

 Drew, Jake, and I (in that order) going down the river. It seemed to be Jake and I paddling most of the time, no offense Drew. 

 Me and Drew went swimming, we were the only voluntary swimmers. 

 Getting in the canoe was hard because it was extremely tippy. Even for a canoe. 

Rachel said that she enjoyed it. 

Us swimming non-voluntarily. Thrice the canoe tipped over, once because we all leaned left at the same time, once because Drew stepped into the shallow water to get to shore and it was deeper then he thought (pictured above), and the last time we flipped it on purpose. Also once Drew fell into the river and we towed him to the other side to get him back into the boat. Canoeing was AWESOME! :)

D.C. Pics

here are some pictures that we took in DC. Grandma has spontaneous picture taking disorder (not really) and insists that I am in every picture, next to every sign or building in DC

The Vietnam Memorial

 I think you know what that is...

 The temperature (it didn't storm at all though)

 The white house.

 Iwo Jima Memorial

 Washington monument

View of the jefferson from the top of the washington

iPod!!!!!

I ordered my iPod today!!! It is a 8 gig 4th gen (newest) "used" iPod touch. 

Lighting Bugs

I went fishing with Dad today and there was literally millions of bugs, at least on the ride home. Three lightning bugs got stuck to our windshield and their lights remained on! It was really cool. Its just really hard to believe that something that perfect could evolve. On that subject I was with G and G in DC for a week, and we went to the museum of natural history. They broadcasted as fact things that were not even yet out of the hipothisinisis (I hope you know what I meant) stage. They had a big pillar that showed when things came about, first invertebrates (about 500 billion years ago) then vertebrates a little after that, then other things all the way up to humans (300 million years ago). The really sick part is people believe them with out question, most people never even consider the possibility that anything else happened. OK, I am getting a little off topic. Back to lightning bugs... Wouldn't it be great if someone could invent lightning bug energy? Totally clean, practically unlimited juice, and a cool shade of green. :)

Oh, earlier today we went over to the our pastor's house to rip out tile, it was awesome. Not the ripping of tile, but what we did afterward. I was given a metal mallet, Steven was given an hatchet, and Zach was given a hammer. And we were told to destroy a wooden doll house!!! :D:D:D it was great, it could have been accomplished much faster, and quieter maybe, but with not nearly as much enjoyment. :) 

Washington DC

See all of you later, and I won't be posting for a while... IN DC!! :D:D:D

Mega Mind

I watched Mega Mind a few days ago for the first time and I must say that it is the AWESOMSWEETEST movie ever. (btw have you ever thought about the name "movie"? its like move-y movey, yeah its weird) I love the storyline, so far beside one part where some guy says frekin' the only thing I don't like is the girl's short hair. (don't ask me why but I don't think girls should have short hair, read 1 Cor 11:1-16) and that really is not that big of a problem. I love how they got a bald blue dude to be handsome! :D

If you love Mega Mind too check "nice" :)

Shots

I tell ya, shots are way over rated. I mean, it did not hurt to get them, and it hardly hurt afterward. The crazist part about getting the shots was when the nurse stuck me with the needle I actually enjoyed it! I don't know, maybe I am just weird, but I little bit of pain is fun!