Thursday Day 4

We began with a 2 hour kayak ride over past the church and back. Se sat in the bay and relaxed in the sun. We could hear the loon, coyoted (real coyotes- not loons's) and crows. Boats would pass bye and the waves would rock us either making you uneasy and questioning your stability, or enjoying the swaying motion.

Wednesday Day 3

Adirondacks Day 2

Another amazing day! This morning we got up for breakfast after a long night of sitting in the sauna and swimming in the lake till 11pm. A shower was a wonder relief before bed. We loaded the boat at 8:45am and car pooled to Blue Mountain Nature Preserve. It was a lot like the places I have been in Virginia, but much smaller. There was a  moose (stuffed) fish, frogs, otters, snakes, bugs, weeds, plant life, and mush more. It was very nice and there were a few interactive activities such as an area to step on so it feels like when you walk on the bog in the forest.

Next we went to the Adirondack Museum. I absolutely loved that place and would love to go back. There was so much to see and so much that was interactive. It was a great museum with the old buggies pulled by horses, tools and machinery used to log the trees, train cars used for transportation...too must to mention. We took so many pictures and enjoyed ourselves they entire time we were there.

Adirondacks Day 1

After breakfast we headed out on a 2 hour hike through the trails on Camp Huntington/Pine Knott at Raquette Lake. It was nice that we had cool temperatures so that we weren’t covered in sweat. The cool air did bring out the flies. They covered the Courtney and Nicole because their cloths still had a fresh dryer sheet scent. During our hike it began to rain. Our kayak trip was canceled. In place of floating on the lake, we worked on our blog in the “classroom.” After lunch we had a discussion with John Slade who wrote a Adirondack Green.


John Slade went through an overview of his book we read before our trip to the Adirondacks. The book is about how the children of a small town outside of Utica, NY were assigned a community service project. The projects made the students realize things about life and about themselves. They learned about their community and what it means to be a community member. They also learned what it takes to become more environmentally aware of what best for their community and their future.


We had a class discussion about how we can safely make our towns and cities more more environmentally friendly. We talked about how we can teach the children in our classrooms how and why we need to think about the future...so that their is a future.