Acadia

I`m going to Acadia today. I will try to catch Mackrel, bluefish, and Stripers in the ocean. And eat them if they are big enough! It's going to be a long drive. I'll write about it when I get back.

Indiana Part 1

I went to Indiana and It was just Connor and I so once we got of the plane and waited for our Aunt Sally and our cousins Kinsey and Kendall. Once they got there we went and got lunch at White Castle. For those of you who don`t know what White Castle is it`s the place with these AMAZING mini hamburgers and while we were there I switched Kinsey's drink with Kendall's and Kendall and Connor were in on it so Kinsey comes back and takes a Huge gulp and gagged for dear life!!!! Then I put the drinks back and we ate our minute hamburgers. From there we went to see our aunt Vicky who works at a gas company. We talked awhile but had to leave so we went to bobs auto parts store and saw Fred. We asked him if we could ride the ATV but he said no not until he got back.

And there is this weird thing how Kinsey is in sixth grade I`m in fifth grade Kendall is in fourth grade and Connor is in third grade. So we had so much fun riding the four wheeler at Aunt Sally`s house. We also had lots of fun at Darryl's riding his golf cart. And These are the best relatives first and Second Cousins ever!!!!!!!!!

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

This is my favorite poem. It's about how they can take everything he possibly has but they can never take his soul. It reminds me even when times aren't the best that I can still stand tall.

Invictus
by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

The Cairn on the Mountain

We were going to my great Aunt Mary's birthday party and when we were coming back my mom saw this little hike thing so we went up and did it. It was Miller State Park and Pack Monadnock Mountain. We didn't have time to do a hike by foot so we did it on the autoroad. The road was a steep switchback. We were surrounded by trees and then it opened up and we could see for like a hundred miles. So when we got up there we looked all over the place. There was a fire tower up there. We went up as high as we could but the top part where the man would stand was closed. We could see all the way to Boston and all directions.

So we took a hike. There were all these rocks we had to go down. Connor and I went down farther ahead. We found this weird kind of a pile of rocks. So we called Mom and Dad. Mom told me it was a cairn that's a big pile of rocks that were used a long time ago to mark property or burial sites. The cairn was about 5 feet tall and at the bottom is started off with bigger rocks and as it grew taller the rocks got smaller because so many people had been taking rocks and putting them on. It was shaped like a squeezed in "A".

We got to go down farther on the trail and then we came back up and went back home. If you want to learn more about cairns go to this website.