My Field of Dreams - By Spencer

My mom is really cool. Yeah, maybe a little crazy, but super cool. This is a panoramic of Tyler out in a random field somewhere in the outskirts of SLO. I'm taking the picture, and nobody else is there. This is what happened: we are lazing around one morning (summer style), Mom is laboring in the kitchen (every day of the year style), and Boom! "Spencer and Tyler! I just had a really cool idea!" 

Just like that. Next morning, we hitch a ride with dad on his way to work in San Luis. He drops us off at Laguna Lake for the rest of the day until work ends. That's my mom! So, what would we do all day in San Luis?

           GEOCACHING!!!  

          This is why: a normal amount of geocaches in a town looks like that (the smilies are caches I've found, and the stars are the ones I've made).
                                   

                                               

Then there's San Luis.  All those smilies are the ones Tyler and I found that day.

                                             We still had time to squeeze in a few selfies.

 Ok, this was a tricky one. This is a picture of the cache. Can you guess where it is?

 Ready?

 And...

 ...Boom!

 That is totally a favorite.

One geocache took us to the top of a hill, where there was a structure made of rocks. Apparently it's used for meditating.

Our hundreth geocache! It was sort of anticlimactic though, wide out in the open in a plastic bag. Oh well.

 Here's another cool one.

Can you guess?

 Here comes the hand...

 ...Whoa!

  So cool.

 For lunch, we walked to Panera-the best bakery ever.

 We shared a tomato-mozzarella panini, a creamy tomato soup, and a french bagguette. Yum!

 We kept laughing at this sign-no Bieber! Good thing we wouldn't run into him!

 Some of the hills were pretty intense. 

 For all you people not in California, our lakes are more like mud puddles.

 The hikes to some of these are so crazy, the caches get names like "Geezer Wheezer."

 And they're very easy. That's because no muggle just goes up for kicks and giggles, and nobody wants to hike all that way to not find any and go back down.

 The wildlife there was fantastic; we saw deer, a jackrabbit, a skunk (that one was next to a cache, so we had to steer clear), hawks, lizards, and a bunch of song birds.

Later in the day we walked to Maddona Inn, where we rested until our dad picked us up to go home.

Beautiful ice eggs - by Tyler

 I have discovered how to make small, egg-like ice sculptures with objects inside. 

All you need is: a water balloon, an object that could fit in the balloon, water, and a freezer. So let's get started!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                                              First, you stuff the object you want into the balloon.                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                    Then, fill your balloon with water. Be careful not to pop it!                                                                                                                                                                                          

                                            Next, place it in a freezer for a few hours until frozen.                                                                                          

                           At last, you should have a water balloon made of ice. Take off the covering.                                                                                                      

                                            All done! You should end up with a beautiful ice egg.
                                                         Here are some others we have made:

                                                                       Lavender.

                                                                      Other random flower.

                                                                             Dandylion.

                     This is an example of a "random object." Now get going on a fun, cold, wet, awesome, craft!