camping

I am going camping. If you are going camping you will need shelter, rope, food, hiking stick, clothes, light, fishing pole, bait,and bikes. You should bring your Good behavior because things will not work out the way you planed.

New Flickr photos

It's interesting to see some of the things kids take pictures of. We created a Flickr account today and uploaded a set called "NicksPics". He and the girls took them in the last 8+ months. There are a LOT of pics. Click here to see a larger slide show of NicksPics Set then click slideshow near the top right. Or just watch the smaller slides below.



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My Father

My father is grate he hellps us make breftes in bed for mom. He gose to wrock when evry one is usleep. My dad plays the compyooter a lot and I mene a lot! He nose how to do trix on a scate bord. he nose how to ride a bike backwrds! he is speshl.

My Mother

my Mom is nice she will cook are denner and lunch. she helleps us por milk. She cleans are room and makes are bed. She will tuck us in and will drive us to molebeele. (???) She is kind and plite (polite). She will read to us and danns with us and play with us. She will do any thing for any one and she is a alfubet techer at prescl.

Ready To Row!

This is out of sequence since my last post was about our second canoe trip, but here's a picture of me before our first canoe trip. We were about to go to Beaver Creek Dam Reservoir. As you can see, I was ready before we left home!

Second Canoe Trip

(This post is by Nick and Dad)
We bought a used canoe a few weeks ago and we took it out to Beaver Creek Dam Reservoir, but it was too windy and we didn't stay long. Dad and I got poison ivy.

Today we went canoeing on the Potomac River. We started at Goose Creek (Kephart Bridge Landing - 43942 Riverpoint Drive) and went to Algokian Park. It was hard to find the launch place.

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It took 30 minutes to get to the water. First we went to the pickup point and looked around. Then we drove to the starting point.

Then we canoed while Mom went in the car to pickup point to get us. The water was muddy with all of the rain we have gotten. It took 3 hours and 30 minutes to unload the canoe, make the trip on water and load the canoe back onto the van at the pickup site.

We saw turtles, blue herons and a bald eagle. We didn't fish any, but there were some people catching flathead and channel catfish.

When we went home we went outside and played.

Here are directions from to the place thanks to Ben's Kayak Site. Ben has a great site and responded quickly to some questions we had.

• START: Kephart Bridge Landing
  There is paved parking for a dozen vehicles and the water is a short (100 yard) walk from the parking lot. The only problem with this "park" is that the entrance can be easy to miss -- look for two stone pillars between houses and a small brown sign indicating the park entrance at 43942 Riverpoint Drive.
  
  Since Google Earth hasn't filled in all the new streets in this neighborhood, here are directions: From Belmont Ridge Road, cross over Riverside Parkway, turn left onto Riverpoint Drive. Keep going approximately 1 mile. The park will be on your left at 43942 Riverpoint Drive.
  
  
• END: Algonkian Park
  In contrast to Kephart Bridge Landing, Algonkian Park is easy to locate in the heart of the Cascades neighborhood. There is ample space to park your pick-up vehicle, and even picnic tables and restrooms to take a break after your outing. There is a $2 fee for using the boat ramp so bring exact change and a pen for filling out the envelope, and help support this great asset to Potomac boaters.

We plan to put some pictures on the blog soon, but we forgot the camera this time.

My Best Birthday

When I was turning seven, I went to chuckiy cheese. I climed the maze slide and I went on the bucking jeep or monster truck. Then it was time for pizza.I had sausage. Then I opened my presents. One was a game called Super Mareow Brothers. Anuther present was a bed for Izzy. The last one was a MP3 player. Then next day I had a birthday party. My dad stole the cake and hid peseses to a picher of him putting the cake in the car under the babys seat. I ran, opened the car door and took the cake out of the car. Then we ate cake and party cake which is a type of ice cream. Then I opened one present. It was a Star Wars Lego droued Walker. I opend another present. It was a Sponge Bob Lego Rocket ship. The other present was another droued walker. I used one for the good side and one for the bad side. Then my friends went home. Guess what? My friend Sage is having a sleep over at his house on May nineth. that was my best birthday ever!