Saturday, May 19, 2012

Day 4

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We had a fantastic day today! After two days of moving and shaking in San Francisco with the hustle and bustle of the city, it is so nice to be out in nature. We woke up at our leisure today to beautiful blue skies and warm weather. Today we went to Moaning Cavern, California's largest cavern. It can hold the Statue of Liberty inside of it. We descended 245 stairs on a spiral staircase to the base of the cavern. We saw formations such as the chocolate wall, Winnie the Pooh, Darth Vader, a king cobra and an elephant. While we were down at the bottom we got to see two people rapelling down the center of the cavern. After the trek into the center of the earth, we watched as Madison, Nicholas and his dad ziplined through the trees and Alec, Chase and Isabel scaled the rock climbing wall.
After a long drive home, the kids jumped into the pool and tested the river. It was pretty warm out today so the dip in the water was quite refreshing. The boys were in charge of dinner tonight and it was quite comical watching them attempt to open a can of tomatoes for chili. How many boys do you think it takes to open a can? After dinner the kids went up to the rec center for a mean game of ping pong and pool.
Question of the day: What is so special about Calaveras County?

6 comments:

Trevor Hallahan said...

The gold telluride mineral calaverite was found there in 1861 and thats how it got it's name

michael said...

gold telluride calaverite was founnd in 1861

Anthony said...

They found gold telluride in 1861

Anonymous said...

gold telluride in 1861

the camera man said...

i dont think i would be someone to look for gold

the telluride gold in 1861


-takumi

Dorky 6th grader said...

1861, gold in telluride