Events of the Recent Past

Sorry about the whole not-blogging-even-though-I-said-I-would thing, but I'm blogging now!!
First of all, here's about palm springs. We went to the same hotel as we did last year, and we saw two praying mantises. I touched one of them and it scuttled up a wall and STARED at me, Have you ever had a praying mantis stare at you?? Not fun. Very scary. and many other two-word sentences that describe being stared at by praying mantises. We went to Joshua Tree and I saw Real Live SENSITIVE PLANTS in the wild. Sensitive plants are these things that, when you touch their leaves, close the leafy part and it looks like a frondy stick. We also went up a mountain in a car thingie on a cable that swung! it swung whenever we hit a tower to keep the cable up. skeery. but it was REALLY cool at the top! we went geocaching. and we found two geocaches there, I found one and Adam found the other. And we hiked. It is really beautiful up there, and we saw TWO RAVENS!!!!! They were awesome and they had big beaks. One walked not two feet in front of me and looked at me for a moment before it hopped away and flew into a tree. It was really cool. Next let's talk about my birthday. In November, I had my birthday. It was a fun party that consisted of bowling at Tech City Bowl, coming home to eat cake and unwrap presents, and going swimming at the Redmond Pool. At the bowling place we bowled and I kept on looking for my friend Beca who came late. Anihoo, After bowling we ate the amazing cake that kimmie made for me and opened my presents. i got a lot of presents so I won't name all of them. Swimming was really fun. First we dove off of the diving board, then we went to the shallow end and played varied water games i cant remember. Then my friend Kelsey and i had a battle. We splashed for a while, then she grabbed my leg and flipped me into the water. when she thought I would back off, I swam like a shark and grabbed both of her legs, tipping her up so she was laying flat on the water. Then i dragged her all around and we played in a similar manner until we had to go home. Oh that was a fun day. EVENT OF THE FUTURE!!!!!! Camp Orkila is in March. They will teach us Initiative and Ropes courses and watercolor and cartooning and we will get amazing food like camp Hamilton and finally (DEEP BREATH) THE GIANT SWING!!!!! Here's how it works. Read the next post to find out.
Mady