Starting in February. We went hiking. I took a ton of pictures. Unfortunately, most of them either weren't very good, or were of Kira posing randomly. Here is one I got that I do like
I call it "Up". (Sorry, that's an inside joke that only Kira will get)
We went skiing in Colorado over our winter break. I didn't get many pictures (I didn't really want to drop my phone in the snow or take off my glove in the freezing temperature to unlock my phone) but I did get this one of the scenery on our way up the mountain.
Colorado is really pretty.
Only about a week or two after Colorado, my grade went to Yosemite. It was a long bus ride there and a longer bus ride back, but it was worth it. Yosemite was beautiful. We went on long hikes every day (we went from Sunday to Friday), and on Thursday, we went on a challenge hike. On Wednesday, we went cross country skiing. (Warning: Here come a lot of pictures)
This was a picture from one of our first hikes. I think it was on Tuesday. The water fall was called Bridle falls (or maybe it was Brindle fall, one of those). Unfortunately, you can see my thumb in this picture. I took a lot of pictures with my thumb in them with this camera.
Anyway, on Monday, we went into the spider caves. It sounds like a cave crawling from floor to ceiling with spiders (or at least that's what I expected) but it is not. It is a small cave that you have to crawl through in pitch blackness. We had the person in front of us guide us, and we had to guide the person behind us. I don't know why it's called the spider caves. Maybe because you have to crawl like a spider.
This was a picture from our skiing day. My hiking group loved to have snowball fights. We picked up old, melting snow up as we hiked. So it was no surprise that we had a huge snowball fight during lunch.
This was just a tiny waterfall we passed sometime on one of our hikes. I think it was the Challenge hike.
I think I took this picture on the bus rid back from the skiing place.
Towards the end of our Challenge hike, we got so high up, there was fresh(ish) snow.
Yosemite falls! I don't know how to turn this picture, Sorry it's sideways!
Random pretty picture of Half Dome. I think this picture is my favorite that I took in all of Yosemite (which is why it is so big). I don't know where I was when I took it though.
In April, we went to DisneyLand! My favorite ride was Tower of Terror, but I also liked California Screaming. Tia likes roller coasters (like me). Kira doesn't, but she enjoyed the character themed slow rides. I also liked the Ariel theme ride, Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
I went back to Disneyland in May for a Band trip. Our school's band and orchestra went to Disneyland for 2 days to play in a workshop. We got to learn easy music and record it to the Disney movie it came from. We played the background music at the end of the Lion King, from Atlantas, the song "When you wish upon a star", and background music from Cars 2.
We got Mickey Mouse ears from the Band trip!
In June, Tia and 5 other of my friends went to Girl Scout camp together. We did a high ropes camp, so we did high ropes every day. On the first day, we did a tour of the camp. On the second day, we hiked to Inspiration point (a very pretty view) and played some games. Next, we had Challenge course, where we balanced ourselves on a wobbling platform, swung on a rope and landed on a block, and did a low tightrope walk (with ropes to hold onto). After lunch, we did high ropes. I did another tightrope (with ropes to hold onto). The next day, we did Double Trouble on the ropes course. In that element, you tightrope across (holding onto one very wobbly rope the whole way), and switch ropes with your partner halfway across. Tia and I were partners. However out of all the elements, my favorite was the Leap of Faith. You jump off a tall tree (attached to a rope of course) and trust your group to lower you to safety.
I don't have any pictures yet from this year (they need to be developed), but this is the picture of our tent from last year.
Oh yeah, we had to set up tents this year and ours didn't have any poles!
The weekend we got back from camp, we went to Seattle Washington celebrate our Grandma's Birthday! We came on Saturday and went out to dinner with our Grandparents. The party was on Sunday, and Grandma got an iPhone. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures from our trip except one of Tia and our Uncle playing Ping Pong in the backyard.
Sorry that whole Blog post was ridiculously long! Next year, I'll try to blog as we do trips and Vacations so I don't pile them into one post.
