My First Ski Trip, by Victoria

When I was 10 I took a ski trip; it was fun I took a Ski Wee class and I went on a lot of slopes and we rented a ski house.
Jenna and I took an awesome Ski Wee class. For one hour we worked on our feet and getting used to our skis, from 9:00 am -11:00 am we went on the bunny slopes. When I first tried to get on the ski lift I fell over. From then on I was always careful getting on and off.
The slopes range from easiest to hardest like this: Green circle, double green circle, triple green circle, blue triangle, double blue triangle, triple blue triangle, black diamond, double black diamond, triple black diamond. I didn't go on any black but I did go on some blue. But my favorite slope was The Salamander, they call it The Salamander because it is really curvy.
Our ski house was huge! The Snelgroves rented it, too. At night we would go into the hot tub. If it was snowing that night it made it better. I mean snowing, bathing suit, cool. right? We would play games it was lots of fun spending time together.
Going skiing was tons of fun! I lovwd Ski Wee, all the sloipes and getting a ski house.

Sports I Enjoy Doing, by Jenna

I love to do certain sports. Some of them include Fencing, tennis, and skiing.
I just recently picked up fencing. It is a fast sport at times. There are not as many rules as some sports but it does have rules. On the first day we fenced I beat everyone in my class.
Tennis is a sport that my dad made us do. Now we enjoy it. Victoria always beats me no matter what, but the important thing is that I have fun.
Skiing is a sport we do mainly in winter. We stay in a house at the ski place. Its fun because there is a hot tub at every house.
I enjoy lots of sports. There are so many sports that I have yet to try.

Ski House

The day after Christmas is going to be awesome! Mom, Dad, Andrew, Jenna, Kate, Matt, Sabrina,Sarah and I are loading up the car and going skiing. I am so excited we got this really cool cabin near the ski place! I can't wait!!!!!!!!!! Jenna and I get the loft!

Family Vacation

This last week we had our vacation, and as we have done previous Octobers we spent the time on our boat.  Half way through the week, Jenna went to stay with Kate for three days and Victoria stayed with us. We always appreciate our girls hanging out with their big sister as she is such an incredible influence on them, and they really enjoy their nieces. The girls are at a great age! 

On Thursday they had the great Schooner race from the Bay bridge to Norfolk and we ventured out to watch the start. In the picture you can see the Schooner "Pride of Baltimore" race by us.  (We were not in the race...just wished we were). 

 On the way back to our anchorage Victoria took a picture of Terry and me by the Thomas Point light house.  Thomas Point LH is what they call a "Screwpile" LH and we usually stop by and take pictures of our guests in front of it, but never had our own taken. 

It was nice having just one of the girls for a period of time, and Victoria caught a LOT of fish.  We would go out in the mornings and evenings for an hour or so and I would mostly spend the time taking fish off of her lure.  The weather was indian summer wonderful.  

P.S. -

For those of you wondering about the girl's riddle - the "bicycles" are playing cards, and there should only be 52, not 53.  

What Victoria didn't write

So Victoria wrote about Echo Hill and all the activities except one which was bay studies. In the class we caught many fish. We caught a Pumpkin Seed Fish, eels, Small Mouth Bass, Blue Crabs, and some others that I can't think of. The Pumpkin Seed fish had an orange belly and whitish grayish top. We also caught 3 Eels; they were slimy and disgusting. The mall Mouth Bass had a huge mouth. We caught a Blue Crab it was annoyed with us in other words it was crabby. All in all we had a great time on bay studies. 

                                                                                                                          By Jenna 

p.s. We told riddles on the way if you figure it out post it on comments. 

There were 53 bicycles  on a table and a man dead on the floor. Why was the man MURDERED. 

Echo Hill Camp

We went on a field trip with the Pool's school. We went to Echo Hill Camp. It had a 150 acer campus. We got there around  11:00 and got settled in to our cabins. Our cabins were just big tents with a hard floor. There were 3 other schools there. While we just had 8 people from Bay Montessori the other schools had 80 or 90 people that came. The bathrooms were just big Johnny blues, they were disgusting!!! Any way every day we would wake up, go to the bathroom, get dressed, and go to breakfast. In the morning we couldn't shower because it was like 20 degrees!!! After breakfast we would have a morning activity, the lunch, then an afternoon activity and dinner and night activity. When we first got there we got settled and went to lunch. after lunch we had our first class. Our first class was outdoor survival. Then we had dinner. for our night activity we had a night walk. we couldn't use flashlights and we were tripping on everything!! We went to bed on bunk beds and under bug nets. We all wore 3 sweaters and each had a sleeping bag. The next morning we went to break feast and then to our morning activity. Our morning activity was adventure 1 we got to play lots of games and got to do the adventure course. The adventure course was fun we got to try to balance our teacher and us on a big seesaw. After lunch we had adventure 2. At adventure 2 we got to go on the big swing. The big swing was 2 big wires. we all got harnesses on and got a turn swinging. We had dinner and for our night activity we had debates on a Dr.Seuss book.We went to sleep and the next morning we had breakfast and did bay studies and then we went home.

                                                                           Victoria