http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/EllenW/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from EllenW en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:53:02 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:53:02 +0000 I'm officially half way through my American Adventure How exciting It's the end of the two week session now and I am absolutely EXHAUSTED Two weeks without a break slowly sucks the life out of you Luckily we get a two day weekend to recoverThis session we had two out of camp trips One to a little river to do some kayaking which was kind of cool we saw a whole bunch of wildlife and kayaked a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Marthas-Vineyard/blog-421986.html So we've had a couple of weekends off now and I thought I'd fill you guys in on all the fun things we've been doing outside of camp So the first weekend we went to 'Downtown Plymouth' and saw all the sights there. There's this place called Plymouth Rock where supposedly the first Pilgrims landed. It's a rock about the size of a classroom table shaped like an over sized pebble with a date on it... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Boston/blog-418244.html Super quick update. I didn't get to to publish the last entry because we had a LBD just as I was finishing. An LBD is NOT fun. It's a Lost Bather Drill which means we have to leg it to a central place and drop off our kids and then run to the lake and wade around in the water until we find the drowning child or everyone has responded to the drill depending if it's a practice or not. We've had two http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Plymouth/blog-413537.html So staff training has been and gone and so far I'm loving it. we live in these big tents with 5 other staff members in for training we have been in teams and we have basically been the kids and tried out all the activities as well as doing more serious training. Everyone here is amazing and luckily we all seem to get along really well. We just all spend so much time in hysterics. While we're here http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Plymouth/blog-413459.html I'm heeeeeeeeere ish. This ish part is because i'm not entirely sure where exactly I am. I know I'm not where I'm ending up. But I also know that I am supposed to be here till tomorrow when we go to actual real live camp Happy daysSome of you will be pleased to know and many surprised that the whole journey went pretty smoothly. I mean other than a minor pineapple related incident it was http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/Boston/blog-408207.html This is my first ever travel blog entry. The purpose of this entry is two fold to explain myself and to have a practice blog post. I have just realised I sound ALOT like I'm writing an English essay target lighten up Explanations I accidently created this account back in January when I was trying to comment on one of Beth's posts. Which doesn't bode well for my ability to use this shibaz bu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-406487.html