grapes r yummy :)

I had some grapes yesterday that were the BEST grapes i have EVER had in my life!!!

they were seedless, first of all, and nice and cold. secondly, and the skin simply broke and wasnt hard to chew at all. thirdly, as i bit into the grape and the cool, yummy grape inside was sweet-- not a hint of bitterness at all.

i love grapes...... dont u?

POPSICLES!!!!!!

I LOVE popsicles! i love it how before u lick one it is covered in flakes of ice.... mmmmm... they're so sweet and yet have just a tinge of tartness...

i think i'll go eat a popsicle....=) dark cherry or strawberry kiwi? Or perhaps blueberry?

choices.....choices..... too many choices... how can one choose??

-krispy =)

camping and canoe riding

Hello friends!! only a few days ago my family and I were in Emminence, Missouri. we went up into the Ozarks for a 2 day camp. we tried to get a cabin but they were already full. however, we ended up at a campground called Circle B. it was by a lovely river called Jacks Fork River, and even though we didnt get a cabin we got a hotel room that was basically just like a cabin! (the only difference between our room and the cabins was that the cabins had a kitchen--and i think it's better that we didnt get a kitchen) The land around us was beautiful.... dark green leaves swayed gently in the wind and bristled as squirrels leaped to and fro among the branches. Directly behind us, down a small dip, was a campground for tents among a forest. beyond the tents the ground switched from dirt to rocks. The rocks at the bottom of the river sparkled and glimmered as the hot afternoon sun reflected off the clear, blue water. (the picture below is of the river--the water is actually not brown, but very clear. the rocks just make it look brown. farther away u can see a strip of blue water, and that is where it gets deep.) The first day we just hung around, roasted marshmallows and made s'mores (i made my very own marshmallow stick that i carved with my new carving tools!), splashed in the river and got soaked through, and just had fun!! it was awesome!

The next day we got up bright and early, put on our damp clothes from the other day, ate breakfast (granola bars and cereal), strapped on our water shoes and went outside to wait for the bus to come pick us up to take us upstream to where we would get in canoes and paddle down(we signed up for the 2 hour one). Now, u might be wondering what "water shoes" are. well, when we first got there we tried to go down to the river with bare feet. not smart. the jagged rocks scraped and hurt our feet so much it wasnt very fun at all! even in the river the sharp rocks pushed against our feet and we had to get out. so mom and kath went to Walmart (a 2 hour drive there and back) and bought water shoes. these were shoes that had thick rubber bottoms and tops that had tiny holes for water to flow in and out of them. They helped extremly well and even if they may have looked a bit dorky everyone at Circle B was wearing them so it really didnt matter.

Anyway, where was I.. ah yes, canoeing. we we going canoeing. i thought it would be as easy as kayaking but no siree i was SO wrong! first of all the paddle is one sided. you have to switch it completely around to paddle on the other side. the canoe itself is a lot bigger too. So, we started out--Mom, kath and I in one canoe, and Caleb and Dad in the other. There really is too much to tell about in one blog post so i'll just write about one exciting thing, the canoe tipping. yes, my canoe tipped. flipped over. yes, it did. looking back at it it was quite an exciting adventure but at the time it was a bit scary. i'll elaborate.

The canoe was arranged in this way: katherine was at the front, a paddle in her hand. i sat in the middle on the bottom of the canoe because i was taking a break and letting katherine paddle for a bit. behind me my mom sat also had a paddle. in the boat with us we had two towels, a plastic bag with bottled water. i had my sun glasses on and my new, tan colored hat on my head, and my blue, "glacier freeze" gatorade in my lap. my dad and caleb were already a ways ahead so they pulled up onto the rocks to wait for us. we paddled along but we got caught in a current. it pushed us towards an overhanging branch. oh no, i thought, and tried to yell suggestions to katherine to get us out of the current but it was too strong. It swept us along closer and closer to the branch. it was big and had many small branches sticking out of it, a big scraper. the other problem was that it was much to close to the water to duck beneath it. behind me my mom said, "this is gonna hurt." my, that didnt make me feel any better but there really wasnt any time to think of anything. i saw katherine put her hands up to grab the branch but it slipped from her grasp and i grabbed it too...but then, if i let go it would wack my mom in the face! to tell u the truth, i really dont know what happened next, except that the next thing i knew i was plunged into the icy cold water. it was much deeper than i thought it was and extremely cold. the rock that slammed into my knee implied that there was also big, sharp rocks beneath me. i dont know what happened but the first thing i thought was, 'mom! kath! r they alright? what if one hits her head!! oh no this is terrible!' the second thing i thought was 'ahh! my hat! my new hat! where's my hat??' i forced my eyes open and saw that everything was very dark and it soon occured to me that i was STUCK BENEATH THE CANOE. so my third thought was 'ok, i'm underneath the canoe... i'm gonna drown if i dont get back up. oh no! this is just what happens to people in movies! they get stuck beneath boats and cant get back up and they drown! ak!!' but i forced my legs to kick and my hands to push myself down and then up to the clear, glittering surface above. i burst from the water and scrambled ashore. The strange thing was is that it felt like the whole thing had taken minutes, but in reality it was just a couple of seconds!

my dad was there and he was helping mom flip the canoe over. i saw katherine splashing her way towards a paddle and then saying something about her sunglasses. where were MY sunglasses? then i realized i still had them on! haha! but then, oh no! my hat! i saw it and my mom's hat swish by and tumbled towards it. i grabbed my hat and plopped it back on my head, even though it was soaked through--it didnt matter because I was soaked through too!. i grabbed my gatorade that floated by and one of the green towels and pushed my way against the rough current to the shore. i was shaking all over and i honestly dont know whether it was the cold water or that i might have drowned that made me shiver. Whatever it was, it didnt matter because i was okay and so was katherine and mom. We had only lost the bag of water and katherine's sunglasses. the water wasnt a big deal but katherine's sunglasses had a special perscription and were REALLY expensive!

i was almost afraid to keep canoeing but i did and the rest of the ride was smooth as silk--except for a few rapids but we got through them fine.














well i hope u enjoyed reading this! it is 100% true except i may have made it a bit more dramitic than it really was...heehee

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I need to write more often

i need to write on my stories......

i have all these great ideas but i just cant make myself write them down!

i think i'll do NANOWRIMO nxt year



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cake batter at coldstone that tasted like cake batter

you know, i had CAKE BATTER ice cream the other day at coldstone. CAKE BATTER. and you know what, it tasted like CAKE BATTER.

intersting, eh?