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Our last day!!!

Brittany here: Our last day was almost perfect-for me at least. It’s morning and I am sitting in a hotel still in Seattle. Last night, my mom and I stayed at the airport with the girls and Mrs. Susan for about and hour and a half until we put them through security-which I thought was pushing it a little since they were supposed to board in half an hour, but I have talked to Lizzy and it seems they made it home safe. I am glad to hear that. So, Lizzy and Coumbah left off on there last posts about how we were in the car in Port Townsend. Well, my dad’s cousin, Dan Groussman, happens to live there with his wife and his 16 mouth old daughter. We meet up with them at a pizza place for lunch. Then they showed us around town, and we ate ice cream as well. Oh, the girls just fell in love with my baby cousin Ruby. She was adorable!!! I wish I could have taken her home. And it was nice to finally-since we had been talking for a while-meet Dan and Melissa. They showed us a gallery were Dan’s leather work is displayed and they showed us my “cute cousins”. That’s how Dan described them. They are Melissa’s nephews and the are around 17 years old, I think. But yesterday was so cool! Once we said our goodbyes to Dan and his family, we drove to Bainbridge and got on a ferry to Seattle. The ferry ride was short and cool-as in interesting, not as in cold. Once we got off the ferry, we went to go get sandwiches for everyone for the flight home. Then we had to say goodbye to Jose-our creeper van, as the girls call it-and then headed up to check the larger bags. Mommy and I had to say goodbye to the girls and Mrs. Susan after a long conversation-which I am not going to explain-and then the two of us went to meet some of our family that had just flown in. So it was a great-almost-end to the perfect trip.








And girls, get this!!! I rode in a yellow creeper van to the hotel! It was awesome!!!

Umm... I don't know what day this is. I think it was today.

Britt here: I apologize for not posting this right when the girls wrote it, but we had an activity planned right when Lizzy stopped typing. I will post tomorrow about what we did today since I am dead tired. Girls, I hope you had a safe flight home, and I hope the talk in the airport didn't down your thoughts of the end of the trip. Over and out-or more like I'm out like a light!


Coumbah here- yesturday we went to the tidal pools and it was awesome and kinda of scary because there were a lot of big rocks but i had a lot of fun we got to look for crabs and Lizzy and Laurel wrapped themselves in kulp and pretended to be Queens of the sea which was funny but they smelled really bad afterwards.We also went and got rocks at another beach it was super fun because we got to look for rocks and take them my favorite rocks were the orange and white/clear rocks. Cooking dinner was a lot of hard work because we had to cook for 30 people.This trip has been really fun and cold but i’m ready to go home and enjoy the rest of the summer. Coumbah :’)






Lizzy Here :)- I haven’t written in forever! Its been a blast! The trip has been great but now its the last day :( But You now what I think I’m ready for home. I miss my bed... :) Yesterday was fluffin awesome :) We went to the tidal pools :) And since it was low tide we got to go to this cave thingy :) Its was fun and the sea anenome’s were so squishy :) We saw starfish and crabs. If you lifted a few rocks you could find like10 crabs! They were everywhere!! :) I loved it. And Laurel and I took bull whip kelp and made dresses :) Laurel was the Queen.. I was the Princess.. Fine by me I’m younger :3 Later in the day we went to this beach and collected a bunch of rocks. If you just look at the beach it looks gray and boring, but if you really look and look closely you can see that there are all different type and colors and, god its just gorgeous :) This whole trip I’ve been surrounded by beauty.. Sigh what am I going to do when I get back to Georgia?!?! Right now we’re in the car, in Port Townsend.
Lizzy Liu

Salt Creek

Hi All. Donna here. We are now in Salt Creek Campground. We arrived yesterday and caught up with our sister troop. They were already here and camped with us last night and again tonight. Last night they cooked a meal for us that included sea bass, salmon, crab legs, elk, and venison. It was sooooooooo good!!! Today we went to the tidal pools which we can see from our campsite. Bet you parents didn’t know that your daughters might have a spa moment with a sea weed wrap but take a look at the picture below of Laurel and Lizzy!!! The girls had a great time visiting with our sister troop as they looked at all the neat creatures we found in the tidal pools. We then headed to a beach about 30 minutes away and we all collected some really pretty rocks. We may have to pay extra to check our bags with Delta given all the rocks we are bringing back!! HaHa!! Tonight the girls are busy cooking a southern meal for our sister troop. They are cooking ham and beans, chicken and dumplings, and peach cobbler. Amazing what you can do over a camp stove and fire pit!! We have a very busy night with cooking, campfire skits and songs, and a scouts own so will be tomorrow before they have a chance post to the blog again. Cheers!!

Granny's Restaurant

Sophia here. On our way to Salt Creek we stopped by Granny’s Cafe for lunch. It was so cool we all some thing different but every thing was great. They had a small petting zoo in it, it had 1 donkey, 3 goats, 1 dog, 2 cats, and 10 birds. Now we are heading to Salt Creek in hour and thirty minuets to two hours.

Hoh River

Hello Internet World! Laurel here! So I’m gonna talk about the river yesterday in more detail because it was super fun. So when we got back from the bug hike we went down to the river behind our campsite. Some of us girls ate our lunch on the log over the cold raging river( just kidding. It was over a small stream that led into the river. ) After lunch we all just hung out around the river. Some of us were peeved at each other (but don’t worry we worked it out after a good nights sleep) Selina made a fish sculpture out of sand and Sophie and I made a mermaid. I think Lizzy and Brittany were pounding rocks into powder. After awhile my headache was getting really bad and i fell asleep in the sand so i don’t really know what happened during that time.....

Hoh Rainforest

Selina here. Wow, lots of things has happened! Better catch up! I don’t know where we left off last so, I’m just going to start with arriving at First Beach, in La Push. When we arrived, we had lunch, and decided to check out the beach... in pouring rain! So we put on our frog togs and walked out on the beach. We found some pretty rocks and some amazing smooth wood. The sand was black, the wind was blowing, the water was under 40 degrees, and the sky was a gloomy kind of look, but we still had a blast! After unwillingly leaving, we passed though Forks and bought some groceries. Ever since the Twilight saga, the place was corrupted with Twilight things. We found 19 things that evolved twilight, including a very “interesting” “Jacobs Java”. Anyways, after going through Forks, we arrived at the Hoh, with the rain unforgivingly pelting us still. We found a good campsite and began to settle down. First we began to tarp everything down. Instead of having the tarp cooperate and settle down like it was supposed to, it didn’t and kept on falling down. We wrestled with it for about a 40 minutes, and finally held it up with a contraption of rope, poles, and rocks, and were assigned to do some jobs. Then five things happened at once. Brittany, Sophie, Lizzy, and I began to set up the giant seven man tent, Coumbah, Ms. Donna, Ms. Susan, Ms. Carla, and Rosie began to set up the small two man tent, we each wrestled with the tents as some more girls went to unpack the van, build Ms. Carla and Debra’s tent, and cook dinner. I won’t explain the details, but we ended up rebuilding the big tent 3 times, had Laurel, and Lizzy join it to help build the small tent, had the van explode in a huge mess of clothes, and finally settled down to dinner at around 10: 30. I’d say it was a very busy night.
Alright, the next day, we had to wake up at around 9:00 and quickly dress, eat, and meet this man named John Preston at 10:30 for a bug lesson and tour around the Hoh rainforest. We saw some banana slugs, spittle bugs, hunted for tiger beetles, and saw two different trees grown together. After thanking Mr. Preston, we headed back to camp and had the rest of the day free to just us. We played by the river, got some of our clothes wet and had a blast. Some girls got a headache so we started dinner, had Hawaiian chicken, green beans, an some boiled rice, and went straight to bed. Everybody felt much better after a good night’s rest!