I'm Back!

I'm so happy, I'm finally home from outdoor science school, I'll tell you all about it. Well on our drive there we watched 'Home Alone', But the movie didn't last as long as the drive. It took us 2 and a half hours to get there, and as soon as we got there the first thing the instructors said to us was 'DON'T...TOUCH...THE SNOW!!!'
Well the first thing I thought when they said that was 'this is going to be a long week', and at some times it was. For lunch that day we ate the best sloppy joes in the world, and guess what, they weren't sloppy. They were just hamburger buns with ground beef that had really good seasoning.The rest of the day we hiked with our field instructor Melinda, and it just so happened that my cabin instructor was Derek, Melinda's brother. Those were the only instructors that were actually nice.Well I forgot what we ate for dinner, all I remember, was that it was good. Well anyways that night we got assigned bunk partners. It was great I got to be bunk partners with my best friend Keith Ahlstrom, I slept on the bottom bed, and he slept on the top. On Tuesday We had Pancakes for breakfast, and got with our field groups. We did 2 teamwork activities, and rock climbed. I thought I would only make it half way, but I made it all the way, 40 feet on the harder way, and I was the fastest to make it up all the way, out of all the 5th graders. That night we went on a hike And learned the lesson Nocturnal Nation. On Wednesday we took a 7 hour hike to a frozen lake called Jacob's lake, it lasted from 7'o'clock in the morning all the way to noon. We got back, played some games, ate a delicious dinner, and did an astronomy hike. Looking at the sky in the mountains was the most amazing sight,that I will never forget.We got to look at the nebula right under Orion's dangling sword. It was hard to believe those blue clouds were real, and even harder to believe stars were born from these amazing clouds. Early in the morning at 6 o'clock, when we woke up it was snowing! It snowed for about an hour, and I was glad, because the old snow had been melting, and freezing every day for a week, and that was not fun snow. We hiked for 3 hours, and sat down on the top of the mountain. Were not aloud to have snow ball fight, but our instructor let us. We ate a turkey sandwich lunch. We ate dinner, and had a campfire.
We did not have a hike that night, but went strait to bed.The next morning we got up early, packed up our stuff and waited for the buses. When we got on the bus we watched 'Paulie', and 'Because of Winn-Dixie'.Half way down the ride I threw-up, but I didn't cry, or complain. It was the best moment ever when I saw my mom through the window, and I'm so happy to be Home.

-Randog