Ty's Weblog

Light out!  A very long fun day.

The rain cleared out!  We were able to do our night hike after all.  We made it to the Appalachian Trail again and got to travel a fair distance along it before we turned around.  I’d guess we did an hour of total walking.  We had a great time!  The kids all loved walking with [...]

We tried some group games downstairs in the lodge, but it wasn’t really working out so well, so after that they kids had some less structured time playing together and they all seemed to enjoy that more. Around 6pm we had dinner which featured chicken sandwiches and chocolate cake. The evening activities are being moved [...]

From 1pm to 2pm we did archery. Each kid got to do 3 shots. Xander hit the target twice, once with my help, once on his own. 2:10pm till 3:10pm we went on a hike and did some shelter building. We learned about the trail markers and went all the way to the Appalachian Trail. [...]

Name tags made and lunch eaten (sandwiches, potato chips, peaches, carrots, salad, milk, cookie, lemonade). Getting ready to head out to do more activities and hoping the weather holds out.

Xander and I head out this morning for a camping trip with his class. We’ll be there today, all day tomorrow, and till around 1pm on Friday when we’ll head back. Xander and I have been looking forward to this trip all year. Xander was so excited that he actually woke up at 6:30am today. [...]