I awoke to a buzzing alarm in a warm bed. Wait scratch that. I wish I had awoke to a warm bed and a buzzing alarm, but I over slept and woke up twenty minutes before departure. There was a list of things to grab on the way out the door, it consisted of, a
“Any man who goes to sea claiming to have no fear is either a liar or a damn fool”. I read this in a book once and it stuck with me, being a sailor. Since then I have never once claimed to be fearless in the face of the ocean, knowing deep down that I
Hello! I know it has been a while since the last blog post, give or take a few years, but I have come back from the land of no writing. You may be wondering why am I just now suddenly beginning to write again. Well, we are going on an amazing sailing trip down to the
For Gabe’s birthday we went to a place called OSG paintball with about fifteen teenagers who all knew how to shoot a gun, except me. When we arrived we got a gun and a mask each and then we went through the safety rules. As soon as the referee was done with the safety rules
Medicine is a very helpful thing. In the medieval days it was passed down mother or father to child and master to apprentice, now there are whole schools dedicated to the cause of teaching this skill. The other day I went and got a stitch for an ugly cut I gave myself while carving something
“Grenade!!!” The call sounded from the other side of the beach. I heard a stick whistle when it flipped
Pitcher plants have two names. The most commonly known is pitcher plant. It is also called monkey cup. I think this is a funny name. The pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant that is a member of the monotypic family. There are roughly 117 species of pitcher plants. These plants are most commonly found in
Today we drove to a proboscis monkey sanctuary. When we arrived we saw pig tailed macaque monkeys crossing the street. At the feeding platform we saw a swamp snake. The lady said it was not poisonous. The word proboscis means nose, so we saw the nose monkeys. Some fought over the food and even a
Today we are driving to an orang utan sanctuary. While we are driving mom tells us some facts and I also researched it for an essay I’m writing for school. There are about twenty thousand orang utan in the world.They only live on two islands, Sumatra and Borneo. We have gone to one other sanctuary on Borneo.
We all woke up with dull heavy heads at eight in the morning. Or at least Mom and I did. It was Sunday so it was a day off of school thank goodness. Most Sundays we would already be up and getting ready to go to the beach, which is now very nice and clear
