Camping; Books of the Week

I've just gotten back from the craziest school function ever. 3 days, 2 nights of camping, hiking, and biking. 16 kids, 2 chaperones. Fun time, and a disaster.

Our first day started at 10 AM at the campground parking lot. We all unpacked and set up, and three hours later, after some bike repairs, we went on our first ride. The trip to the trail was five miles alone. Once we were on the trail one boy flipped over his handle bars, and the group was separated. One boy was left behind from his group and lost in the woods for a few hours, through two large thunderstorms. During said storms I was with the three other girls and one of the chaperones, dogding hail stones after clambering out of trees.

Yeah, it was pretty insane. And that's only the short version of the story. By the morning 3 campers had already gone home, surprisingly the one that was lost in the woods decided to stay. Good thing he did, we ended up having an awesome time the next day. We slept in, went for a hike. It was nice.

And at night we built a huge fire. Teen guys screwing around. We found some racoons raiding our camp, so the guys took a huge branch that had been the fire poker, set the end on fire and tried lure the racoons into the camp with hot dogs, and chase after them with the branch. It was crazy, and hilarious.

Oh well, enough of that. Because it started early Monday morning I was unable to post the books of the week, so here they are:

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (it had to happen eventually, and you knew it)

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (link)

Loss of Breath by Edgar Allen Poe (short story)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift (link)

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (this is the first part of Divine Comedy)

Well, that's it for now. Read and enjoy!

No, I'm not dead...

...I've just been extremely busy! As the end of the school year draws nearer, I'm am laden down with last minute projects, exam prep, graduation ceremonies and open houses: the list goes on and on!

My life as of late--when not overrun with school--has been revolving around my backyard garden, and adding more steampunk elements to my life.

I took some lovely photos in my backyard last weekend, and wish to share them with you!

experimented with my new photo editing program on this one

Aren't these photos lovely?

I've reading quite a bit for school lately, and so have expanded my library quite a bit. I've decided that in order to help keep my posting frequent and on a schedule, I'm going to start posting books (and perchance movies) of the week, as well as reviews of books I've recently finished and movies I've recently seen. Hopefully this will help relieve my erratic posting.

For those of you who read/have read (past or present, you chose) my RP blog, I'm finding it rather difficult to accurately describe the battle of Helm's Deep. I've watched the movie countless times, read the script, and still I struggle. I will get that blog up and running ASAP.

Summer is looking busy as well, what with band camp, arts camp, biking camp, perhaps other camps as well, and then I still have to fit in vacation with my parents and perhaps drivers training as well. Sigh.

Before I finish up this post I'd like to say happy Memorial Day weekend! Day of I will be at a parade and then a Picnic, though if I get a chance I will most certainly drop in to say hello to all of you!