THE MARIANAS TRENCH

Today was the first day back after the long fourth of July weekend! Sadly our apprentice Zach was under the weather today but we had our first day with Zachariah which was awesome! We hiked in and continued on our last swampy area. I worked with Trey, Brittany and Dave we set set one stepping stone before break and successfully recreated the Marianas Trench while trying to dig a hole for a rock.

It's beautiful I know.
After snack we set three more rocks! And filled the trench!! VICTORY!!!! Lauren and her crew set two very nice stepping stones the one that went in after lunch was a bit of a battle but they prevailed!! We also seem to have started using the word Derp a lot :P I am a fan.

Lauren and I decided to have a short lunch and spend the rest of the day doing activities from the Environmental Education binder with the crew. So After lunch we made them think we were going back to work then reveled the surprise! We are so sneaky!!! We cached the tools at 1:30 and hiked out. We went to the park just down the road from our site.

We let them play on the swings for a few minutes before getting started.

We did the In My Life activity which is kind of like a choose your own adventure story. It went over really well! Then we played... a really strange game that I can't remember the name of... Everyone forms a circle and holds hands. There is one person in the middle who must grab their ankles, walk backwards, close their eyes and make a bird noise; poor Tay-Tay. The point of the game is for the person in the middle to find the gap in the circle and escape. We also played wind in the willows and Big Booty. Today was an excelent day and I'm looking forward to finishing up the swamp area in the next few days!!

Also this song was stuck in my head all day. Enjoy!
http://youtu.be/-Hpq6P3ySW8

~Derp Queen
~Arielle