summer activities

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Forty Book Challenge Friend

One of our Corps of Discovery friends decided to take on the Forty Book Challenge this year.  Her mom reported,  “A few weeks ago Evie completed her 40 Book Challenge. After Christmas we challenged her to read 40 books of varying genres. She kept a log of the books she read, and her celebration was an Ice Cream Sundae party with the family. Last night we surprised her with all the fixings for a sugary celebration!”

I asked Evie to give us a book talk, as we’re all enjoying summer reading.  Evie says she recommends the Lost Chronicles of Light series. “It’s kind of like Jack and Annie books (Magic Tree House) but with Christians.”

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Washington, DC

Henri wanted to send you some pictures of our big road trip so far. His aunt lives outside of Washington DC and took us on a tour this morning before we headed south. Henri was so excited to see all the memorials and thought you would enjoy seeing these pictures. See you in a few weeks!

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Assateague Island from the Posts

Hello, it’s Kim again!

The kids are on writing strike, it is summer vacation after all!

We had a great time at Assateague Island! Driving in we were greeted by ponies causing a traffic jam, had it been cows it would have felt like home. The ponies truly have the run of the island and we saw Park rangers out trying to move them out of the road, or encouraging them not to loiter in parking lots. One ranger was using a spray bottle of water to love the ponies along, kind of like we do with our cats! Just like our cats, I don’t think the ponies learned their lesson and were likely back in the parking lot that evening.

We started out at the Assateague State Park beach. The beach weather was fantastic after over a week of hot and sticky temperatures and humidity. When we first arrived around 9:30am the beach was almost empty and there was a cool breeze coming off the water. The waves were big enough to be exciting but small enough that we could get past them to swim for a bit. The water was surprisingly refreshing! We learned later from a park ranger that the water is unseasonably COOL right now! It wasn’t as icy as Maine, but still pretty chilly.

Around 10:30, which was also right around the time of the tide change the wind changed and wow could you tell the difference between land air and sea air! All of a sudden it was hot and humid again. We wandered down the beach to find some more ponies and also found a man teaching his grandson about a horseshoe crab. He was happy to show us where the crabs breathe from, and tell us some fun facts about them, like that their blood is blue. I don’t think we’ve ever found such a large horseshoe crab so it was really fun to see it up close.

After a little more swimming we took a break for lunch, talked with another ranger about the different animals we could find on the island and headed off down the road to the National Park section of the Island. Amos and the kids did some more swimming while Oliver napped and I rested in the car. The winds had shifted again so it was great to just sit with the windows open and listen to the ocean. When Oliver woke up from his nap we went clamming and crabbing with the National Park rangers. The kids didn’t get to catch any crabs, but we did find a few clams! McKinley and I both thought we had a clam and when we reached down for it we got pinched by a crab instead! 😬😖 We also got to see a moon jellyfish! I’ve never seen any type of jellyfish in the wild so this was very cool. One of the park rangers was worried about us touching it but once I told her that we had never seen one but knew the dangers she was happy to let the kids look closely and teach them all about what part of the jellyfish stings and the different types of jellyfish.

A local told us that some of the ponies on the Assateague Island are owned by the state. Apparently the state of Virginia auctions off some of the ponies once a year! Amos pondered all day how to get a pony loaded into the van to take it with us but didn’t come up with any workable solutions so he’ll have to get a trailer and head down next year to get one. 😉

This might have been my favorite stop on the trip so far. Ocean, ponies and a state and National park visit with friendly rangers who were happy to teach us about the parks, you can’t get much better than that!

Although we are really grateful to the campground ranger who upgraded us to an air conditioned cabin to get a break from the heatwave, we’ve definitely learned that we prefer the state parks over private campgrounds. It’s hard to pass up the reasonable prices and the knowledge of the rangers who care for the parks!
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Forever Friends

Every summer, precious Mrs. Shedd makes a tea party for me, just because she is the dearest sort of friend.  How kind!  How extravagant!  She showers the world with quiet, loving blessings, from sewing stuffies with our class to helping missionaries with VBS supplies.  She exemplifies living out, “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)

 

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The Posts’ Road Trip: The Ark and Creation Museum
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The ark and Creation museum🌎
Howdy 🤠,

This is the greatly awaited letter, THE ARK AND CREATION MUSEUM (fun dun dunnnnn). Where do I start? ahh yes, when we left Ohio we went to the creation museum, which was about 3hrs away. After the creation museum we went to the ark, after staying in a hotel.

The creation museum

As soon as you arrive at the creation museum you are tempted with the biggest, coolest, most epic playground you’ve ever seen. But we kept moving to the museum. (We did play on the playground at the end of the day) After passing through a gift shop some really impressive gardens and passing a zip lining tower we finally got there. Inside it is the coolest thing ever, there’s a giant fish tank with animatronic people. But once you walk into the exhibits it’s like traveling to a different world. There are dinosaurs, giant trees and rock samples. We stayed inside the museum for at least 4hrs. That is one experience I will never forget.

The Ark

The ark was basically the same as the creation museum but it was on a giant life size ark and was about the ark. The ark was so big that we could see it from a mile away(literally). The best thing was a big screen that showed a little character when you visited one of the Ken Ham websites. It moved to which website you visited and what section you were on (like tickets Hours etc). We tested it with a phone and it worked. We spent a whole day there.
 

 Q&A with Josh (we are at a camp ground without working internet so I will be answering questions here)

Q; will Natalie ,McKinley, Mom, and dad be helping with writing some of the articles? A: Yes they will probably help.
p.s. This picture is of the Mazzola’s dog Buddy. He likes sleeping on the stairs.

by Josh🤓
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The Posts’ Giant Road Trip!

    First stop, Ohio!

Howdy,

We have made it to Kentucky so we thought we’d send out our first newsletter. We started in VT and drove about six hours to a hotel in NY. Then we drove another six hours to Ohio. We had lots of fun. We got to go to family fun Sunday at the Mazzolas’s church and watched Chris make a giant mess by crushing eggs, soda and watermelon! We went to a firework show, and set off some of our own🤪. We also took a hike to a “water fall”. It was more like a trickle of water but the rocks were cool. We got to travel 2 hours from the Mazzola’s to Spencerville Ohio where many of our Post relatives settled in the 1820’s. There are still some relatives living at a house that was part of the Post homestead. We also got to see the original log cabin that the first Post family in Spencerville built.  We stayed in Ohio for 10 days and on Monday we left for The Creation Museum©️ and The Ark Encounter©️. (That will be told about in the next letter.)

Well guess that’s all y’all

Written by,

Joshua🤓

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Sweet Summer

We love when you all share bits of your summer news.  Here are some of your classmates having a sweet time.  Yes to the lakes and rivers and mountains!  Yes to fireflies and fire pits and s’mores!  Yes to good books under a shady tree!  Yes to lots and lots of ice cream!