A Few Random Things

I know that I haven't blogged on this area in a while so I'm going to put a little more than one subject in my blog.

Recently Anna and I have looked for a playground at all the places we've stopped at, and here we got a double reward. This RV Park [Hi Country RV Park] has a small playground of its own. This evening we are going to a playground somewhere here in Whitehorse. Most of the parks we've stopped at either have a playground in them or nearby.

Another thing that we've started looking for is sticks that we can play with as weapons, like swords and throwing knives. We do make sure that there aren't any people nearby when we are playing with the "weapons." I even invented a new weapon that is for longer sticks. It has a dagger on one end and an extra long sword in the other end.

I just recently rediscovered one of my more favorite games for the computer and got it reinstalled on the computer in the back room. Now I can play "Age of Empires" again!

Late Light Ending

Everyone knows that there's more day time in the summer than the winter, right? And a lot of people know that during the winter in most of Alaska and the Arctic Circle there is almost no light as well. And if there's almost no daylight in the Arctic during the winter, shouldn't that mean that during the summer there should be almost no night time?

If both are true (and they are) then that should mean that as it gets more toward summer and we get farther north, there's longer daylight. I knew that there was daylight up till at least 10:00 Pacific Time at the moment, but I never really thought about it. So when we turned off the lights in our bedroom last night around 8:45 and we could see around the room like it was starting toward evening but wasn't yet fully past afternoon...it kind of startled me a little bit.

It's getting annoying being sent to bed when it's still light out, but when we've got the longest daylight of our trip there will be light in the sky for at least 21 out of 24 hours a day!!!

a general blog.

we have Internet for the first time in a couple of days and I'm having a little trouble keeping up with my game accounts and with my e-mail. let me see, i have game accounts on Club Penguin, Miniclip, Dagonfable, AQWorlds, Neopets, Runescape, Lego.com, and Bellasara. Most of these don't add anything new for a couple of days at a time so i can concentrate on around 3-4 at a time which is nice.

the sun is setting while I'm typing this, and its around nine o' clock in the evening Pacific time.

since we've been driving for numbers of hours at a time almost every day, I melted down two days ago when we'd been driving for close to six hours and ended up deciding to keep driving to a spot that was nearly a hundred miles down the road, which would take at least another 3 and a half hours of driving before we stopped. Man am I SICK of riding in the car!

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This is Jakob's mom...I'm adding the photos he wants for this post so they are ready for him once he gets around to writing this. Check back to see when he finishes this assignment!

Playground Games

Yesterday, we pulled into the newest RV Park, which we will be staying at for two more nights. Now, they have a playground here. Even though it is designed a little differently: it has two swing sets, two of the backyard playsets, a BIG tire to climb in and out of, a series of wooden poles painted red and white, two big "sewer" pipes, and a merry-go-round that is tilted on purpose.

There are also some kids here and they taught me and Anna some "new" games. One is called GROUNDERS and is played like this: To decide who is "it" everyone who is playing starts 10 feet away from the play ground and races to get on top of it (off the ground). The last person on something is "it." GROUNDERS is basically like tag but with a few twists: (1) the person who is "it" has to close his eyes when he is on the playground equipment but not when he is on the ground. (2) When both the "it" and another player are on the ground, the "it" can call "grounders" on the other player and make him "it."

The second game is played on the tilted merry-go-round. What happens is that the low part makes a person OUT til they are away from it. What you try to do is stay on the high part. You do this by jumping the bars and running away from the low part as fast as you can without falling off.

The game GROUNDERS is not a game that either Mom or Dad have heard of. But as mom said, we're in Canada now so maybe this is a game that is played in Canada but not in the US. (Now we can take it TO the USA and share it with friends there!)

all the boring things.

This is to be a blog dedicated to the boring stuff of life.

While driving in Montana yesterday we saw cattle. Next, we saw... more cattle. And then when we looked on the other side of the road we saw even more cattle.

When we are driving I like to read, and read, and read some more, and it gets kinda boring.

Since we have no libraries we are having to re-read our books, and i would say I've reread almost every book we have at least one time.

Mom says that this RV park is for the birds. We've seen several robins, as well as some woodpeckers and other things.