Washington Coast

Beginning on October 13, 2007 I hiked about 25 miles up the Washington Coast. It was tough and I had to work real hard to accomplish such a challenging hike, but I made it through with only a few scrapes. Though it had it’s bumps, it was fun and I would like to do it again. There were many interesting artifacts, wild animals and many bones. I got to learn a lot of cool facts on this adventure about some different and random subjects.
The best and most fun part of the trip was the second campsite. It had a nice, cool creek where some of us went swimming. We went swimming in the ocean, but I’m not that crazy so I didn’t get in. It was cushy where we slept, so we slept good for that one night. A couple of us had boat wars in the creek, too. To do this you were to make a boat out of pieces of wood. Then you tried to race them into the ocean by throwing rocks behind our own or throwing rocks at the other boats trying to sink them. Afterwards we played a little ultimate Frisbee and made two fires at each section of camp. Later when it got dark some of us explored a little cave. This was the best day of the trip!
Before all that happened we had what I thought was the worst part. On the first day it started out with missing the ferry because it was so foggy. This meant we didn’t get to the starting point until it was already dark. Which means we had to hike 4.5 miles in the dark over hard, slippery rocks. It was not fun! First, we got really wet. Second, I slipped and cut my hand open on a barnacle and got blood all over my pants. Thirdly, it took a long time to get to camp because we could not see where we were going. Also, our leader kept taking us into the big water ponds so we ended up having to go around a lot which made it even farther to camp. Finally we got to camp, but we didn’t get much sleep because the sand bugs were hopping off our faces all night. Not fun at all!
At the end of this adventure I found out I actually learned a lot. I learned a lot about my tent partner, he can be almost too calm when it comes to trouble, same with the people around me. Also, I learned about myself, that I won’t let my body give out when I’m half way there and won’t stop till everyone else does. Something else I learned about was my fears and how to face them, like my fear of heights. I also discovered that I’m not very fond of raccoons. This happened the on the last night when we were surrounded by them, but I made it through. I am very proud of myself that I made it through. The most important thing I learned on this trip was that I had enough strength to not give up even when I wanted to. After having such a good time on this hike and seeing so many good things, I can’t wait for our next trip to California! I am looking forward to learning more about this region of the country. I’ve never been to California and have heard that this trip is a lot of fun and very cool. I hope Adventure Ed class stays for a long time and many more people get to take it because you can learn a lot.

Rear Window
You may have seen the movie “The Rear Window” and you may have not. If you have seen the movie, you would know that it was all filmed from one apartment and the camera never left. Also it wasn’t boring. How did he do that, you are probably wondering. Here are three of the things Alfred Hitchcock did to accomplish this challenge.
First, he had his main character injured. The main character, L.B. Jefferies, had a broken leg so he couldn’t leave his house. He had to have some fun, so he would sit by the rear window, hence the name of the movie, and watched the funny things his neighbors did.
Second, Hitchcock had two more characters which were the girlfriend and the lady who kept an eye on Jeff. They both helped Jeff solve the murder of his neighbors wife. They did the stuff that involved leaving the apartment. There was also a detective, but he wasn’t much of a help.
Lastly he had a great story line about a man that sees a murder out of his rear window when he was only watching his neighbors and learning what they really are like and their personalities. It was a mix of mystery, romance, and drama. Also what can really happen in reality along with fiction.
Alfred Hitchcock is pretty talented if he can make a good movie and the whole movie is shot from one room. Also now you know how he pulled it off, and if you haven’t seen this movie yet, you should probably check it out from your local movie rental.

Ace Hardware

On the third my dad got home from a week in Colorado. He had to go there for training at an Ace Hardware convention because my family is going to open an Ace Hardware in Mulkiteo by the 7-11, so when my sister and I go over there we can get slurpees. They have already cleared the spot and are pretty close to starting the construction. I have always wanted my parents to own some kind of store because my friend from Illinois, his parents own a gas station and we always haad fun playing on the computer in the office. We would watch people come in on the cameras, then we would sneak round the little holes and cracks. Next we’d go into the giant fridge and look past drinks like spies and watch the people that came in. Also we liked to take the squirt guns and rubber bullet guns have wars around the store and afterwards we would sit down and eat any kind of candy we wanted. Anyway, hopefully it will be done by January.

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