Short summary of the summer

During the summer, we went on many vacations. Before all the trips, we did two sets of swimming lessons. Now I am in level eight and Adam is in level nine. The first one was a trip to RockRidge Canyon. RockRidge Canyon was a great trip. There are so many things to do. There are the water activities and the dry land activities. After RockRidge Canyon, we dog-sited Kobe for four days. We told Kobe that while he was with us, he had to walk by our side, sit when he sees another dog or human, not bark at other beings, not eat leaves or sticks, and, not bite our hands or our feet. After about a month, we went on a house boat for five days. On the house boat we swam, played games, watched Apollo 13, and, we went on hikes. Once we had docked, Mom and dad filled the paperwork and we traveled to the United States of America to go camping for three days. In the campsite, I saw a cat! I was petting the cat until these boys came and scared it away.

Those sentences represent my typical summer.

How to catch snakes

While I was at Rockridge Canyon, me and my friend Leni (Pronounced: Lay-nee) caught snakes during our free time.
 We caught snakes by the lake near and near the bridge because the snakes liked to hang out there. Here are some places we found snakes: 

• On the other side of the bridge in the slime, 
• under rocks, in the water, 
• swimming around, and 
• weaving through the rocks. 

This is the way I and Leni tried to catch snakes before we came to Rockridge :   

1. Look for a snake. 
2. Try to catch the snake by putting a bucket over it (That didn't work).
3.  If you manage to catch the snake,  try to scoop it up to get the snake in the bucket. 
4. If you are very brave, pick up the snake.

Now that we met an expert, we catch a snake like this: 

1. Find a snake in the rocks, in the water, on the rock line, etc. ... 
2. Follow the snake (If need). 
3. Catch the snake with your hands. make hand adjustments  if needed (One hand on the body, one hand gust before the head. Tight, but not squeezing, lose, but not enough to get out.)
4. Put the snake in the "habitat bucket" (One habitat bucket has water, rocks and seaweed, the other, grass and rocks.)
5.  Look for more snakes.

When we caught two snakes, one of them would go in the water bucket, the other in the land bucket. Every few minutes, we would put the snake in the other bucket (water, to no water, land to no land.). 
Caution do not put the snakes together! They might fight!!!
 -Creative Dana Cat

Rockridge canyon

Saturday, August 1 (2015), me, my mom, my dad, and my brother went to a place in B.C. called Rockridge Canyon. Rockridge is closer to Princeton then Penticton. From Vancouver B.C, it takes about four hours to drive to Rockridge. Whall we were at Rockridge, we did some fun activities like going on the zip ling, and the blob. The zip line is the biggest zip line in B.C, and maybe even the biggest zip ling in Canada!

 The blob is a big cushion that you jump onto and then the next person jumps on the blob and the person siting on the blob either falls of the edge or goes flying in the air.

The blob

At Rockridge, we went water skiing and wake surfing. Water skiing is (as you can guess) skiing on water and wake surfing is surfing on the wakes made from the boat.

Wake sufing

Water skiing

 What I did with my friends, was we caught snakes. The snakes where water snakes and garter snakes (you can read more about the snakes in my next blog.)

Water snake

Garter snake

I had a great time at Rockridge Canyon this year.