Ignorant Historian

Power Camp is exactly what I thought…challenging and rewarding. I’m working with a mixed group of kids age-wise, ranging from 4 to 11 (though most are in the 6-8 range). There are 15 of them and several seem keen on testing every rule in the book. The biggest challenge seems to be walking in line from one activity to another. When they start running off or getting ahead of me and the designated leader (who holds the sign), I stop everybody and have them get back in line. I think I had to do that 5 or 6 times that turned a 5-minute walk into a 15-minute walk. We’re halfway through our week already, and I’m excited and interested to see what tonight has in store.

I finally got some pictures uploaded, so I thought I’d share about my Father’s Day, or day 2 of our journey. We went to Yosemite and saw lots of trees and a few waterfalls. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any bears, which was what I wanted to see. We did see a coyote on at least 2 occasions, but neither time was my mom looking in the right direction at the right time. It became quite the joke between us.

Here’s my brother, his girlfriend, and I at the first lookout stop we made. We made probably 50 of these, so we long learned to stop getting out of the car and let Dad go take the pretty pictures himself.

Here are my favorite parents, showing off how cool they were with the headphones and all. We rode a tram through the giant redwoods, and the tour information was given to us through head phones. It’s much easier to listen that way.

We saw a lot of really cool trees. This one was especially impressive because through the years it has been burnt right down the middle. It’s called the clothespin tree. Notice the itty-bitty people at its base.

I’ve included this picture because now that I look at it, I feel like a poor photographer, simply taking the pictures of the legs of my subjects. Since the trees are almost 300 feet tall, it’s hard to get a full picture of what they look like without being there yourself!

This tree is reaching towards the sun.

This is one of the sights that we saw from a great lookout point, Glacier Point. You can’t really see, but there are people rock climbing off that ledge, though at this point they were standing on top of it. Scary.

This is what I saw looking down from where we were looking. I was texting my roommate at the time (it was the only place all day I had service) and realized I was part of the generation which would rather be using technology than admiring inanimate objects.

My most comfortable shoes are flip flops. My family thinks I’m crazy, but they ARE really comfortable, assuming you aren’t worried about stubbing a toe on a rock or dropping a knife on your foot. While flip flops are comfortable, they are open air like a convertible, keeping out no dirt or grime. This is what my feet looked at towards the end of every day. Those flip flops were also perfectly clean when we started (and appeared to have shrunk…).

As we were leaving the park, we had to go through a mile long stretch of 1-lane road caused by a huge rock slide. It’s bookended by lights on either side, with signs posted “Expect 15 minutes wait.” We didn’t have to wait nearly that long, but we did get out of the car as the others behind us, several of whom were park employees. Here’s our abandoned car at the stop light.

I hope that I’ll not need a post/day for the rest of the trip, especially since I’ve already filled you in on some of the fun details on a few of the days.

Related posts:

1. I Give Up It’s fall.  As in, it’s no longer summer. Wednesday I...
2. Christmas Trees in Flashing Time for another look at the wacky searches that bring...
3. New Day, New Phone I’ve been waiting for today for a long time.  Today’s...
4. Happy Summer! Before I go any further, I want to say: Happy...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.