today was interesting... I went on my nature walk today with my friends
this morning... the plan of attack for this adventure day was to start
at 8:10 am --me getting picked up by shannon and arriving at Janean's
house at 8:30.
Instead of this wonderful thought... I was awakened by the moaning of my
sister going "myja.... myja.... it's 8 o'clock!" so while I was trying
to sort out the importance I was like "oh crap! overslept" so i threw on
some jeans and a t-shirt and grabbed a bag and some food, socks and
shoes, and got dressed, ate breakfast and went with shannon. We were
just out the door and my mum was like "there is a thunderstorm warining
for all of the afternoon". so we took this into consideration and drove
to Janean's house... that is when I felt like a complete idiot!We called
Liz to see if she could go, she was not sure so then we left for our
trip in shannon's car...
after that we got into the car and drove to Otter River State Park, but
more so the Lake Dennison area. We drove up around the lake and stopped
to get some photos then we drove around some more and we found where
some trails started, but we did not know where to park, and there were a
lot of signs that said "parking $5.00" which was kinda insane for seeing
nature! so we finally found this guy in a beat up pick-up truck and we
were like " do you know where we can park?" and he said "anywhere! i've
been parking anywhere so long as it does not say 'no parking' but most
of that is only near the beaches" so we thanked him and pulled the car
over on the side of the road... then we started out on what we thought
was a trail... it started off kind of weird and we went up a hill... and
then we found some wild blueberries and ate them and continued on till
we found some blue markers on some trees and we started to follow them
until we found a sign that said "military boundary: do not disturb,
please contact [some unimportant military address of massachusetts]"
so we were like yeah ok, and thern we followed the makers down to the
main path.. so we went around in a small loop. then we decided to walk
down the paved road.... janean and shannon had some idea that we'd go
see some of those train tracks on the map.... i didn't think so, but we
went anyways. so we followed the paved path till it ended at this steep
hill with train tracks on top.... my mind was going " there is no way in
hell" but shannon and janean were already excited and climbing up to
train tracks. so I had nothing better to do than to follow... afterall I
was the 'voice of reason that they ignored' and i decided to go with
them so they did not do anything foolish!
so as soon as i reached the top with them i listened for a second and
Janean was like "I think I hear the train" so I was scooting myself down
the steep slope to get off the tracks part way and janean and Shannon
with me and they were like "get the camera!" so i proceded to get photos
of the train and i took about 6-7 shots and then I was like " do you
remember what happened last time?" "do you remember what you promised
last time?" " do you remember what i said on the phone?!?" they laughed,
ignored me and counted the rest of the 91 train cars... then we got back
up the slope and took a picture or 2 of the back of the train. I
proceded to yell at them for a while and they were like... there is a
trail on the other side of these tracks... lets's go find them on the
tracks. and I was like "no, you made your own trail up here, so lets go
back down and take a trail right next to the tracks down there" but they
were insistent that there was a trail on the other side so i agreed to
let them walk on the tracks for 5 minutes, if they could find a trail on
the other side in that amount of time then we would go on it. so lucky
for them they found a steeply sloped trail down off the tracks and we
walked near these dirt bike paths or something... there was a lot of
sand and smelly sand there.... and as we passed that we say these big
muddy brown mud puddles... andthey had green--bright green-- frogs in
them... the puddles were very gross!! but the frogs were cool... so we
made our way around the puddles and then we found a river... so we got
pictures of it and i dared shannon to touch the water... so she had to
reach down to touch it and janean--encourager of evil--helped grab hold
of her so she did not fall in from the high river bank... the river was
slow moving... and so it was kinda weird... also at this time we found
leaves and they decided it was a good idea to put ferns in people's
hair... so we did that for a while--thankfully leaves and herns did not
stay in my hair... so we moved on... and we found a bridge that went
under the train tracks... so we followed that and then we went through
some swammpy areas and found our way to a bridge that had fallen out or
something.... so shannon and janean had to stand right on the edge and
look all the way down the 20-30 foot drop. then they decided to sit on
the ledge... so scarry for me.... so i took a fe photos of them from a
side slope and then we stopped for lunch.
from there the sky had gone from partially couldy to fully clouded and
gray... so i was like... thunderstorms... we should plan on heading
back... so we made our way down and crossed a sunken swamppy bridge
thing... that got gross mud on our shoes!! after that we found this area
with lilly pads and things... very cool!
then we followed the trail to this high point in the middle of the swamp
thing...from there we could see our paved road and we were able to
determine the path to take to get to the car... so we got to the top end
of the paved road and made a loop. from there we sat at the crossroads
of the paved road and chilled out for a while... I took photos of some
flowers and janean and shannnon exchanged email addresses.... ther i
determined we should head back home or something so not to get in a
storm. but i also sugessted that we go to the middle school if a
thunderstorm did come... that way we could see the lightning and stuff
from a high point on a valley... hehehe....
so we piled in the car and decided since the car fit 6 people... that we
could have all 3 of us in the front seat. so we had janean in the middle
with us--or as she called it--"the pickle seat". so we drove back to
janean's house and crashed mrs. janean's mom's party for a while... i
refilled on water and we found out liz could have come with us afterall.
she called back for us as soon as we started down the road... so we
called her up and she had us over for a while...so we drove to Lizs
house and got a mini tour of her house and then we talked for a while
and went on the porch for soda...
does this get weird? you bet your life it does....
so anyways... i got a rootbeer, liz got a coke and janean got a sprite.
shannon does not drink soda... so we were talking and things and then
liz find this dragon fly stuck in a spider web so we spent a long time
getting it out of the web and freeing it... it was a difficult task with
a soda tab, scissors, pliers, a tiny piece of bark mulch and a something
spring catalog... so finally after sitting there with this poor
dragonfly that I was like... should have left it there.... it finally
flew away... meanwhile while freeing it i was trying to convince my
friends spiders are good things... and i pointed out the "either/or
game" with an option of a sleeping in a bed full of snakes or spiders...
they opted for snakes! gross!! so.... after that we had pliers out and i
forget who.. but i think liz started cutting into the top of her can
with the pliers... so then Janean started messing with the cans and they
were like "what would myja do with the soda can and pliers" so I said
"I'd cut the can open in a spiral... make a blade of some sort and kill
the neighbors' cat" and to that Liz was like... " that cat could be put
out of it's misery" ... so i punctured a hole in my can and then i
stopped for fear of freaking out liz' parents... so then after a while I
unraveled the can and made it into a spiral...this was quite cool!(Liz
has photos!) so then we were like... do some more... we all together we
drank 6 cans of soda un raveled them and made this weird spiraled soda
can thing.... looked like a wind chime thing... it was SO WEIRD....
Liz's dad saw it but was like "right...." and carried on.... so then we
talked some more and decided to try for next friday for an adventure!
and they dropped me off at home.....
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