So Much to Learn, So Little Time
Hey, Stuffie friends! Yeti and friends, writing to you from the road. We left Camp Shady Brook yesterday. [Important side note- we received a formal apology from Chris about the treasure box misrepresentation. And, he’s promised me a nickel the next time I come to camp. Thanks, Chris!]
We headed to High Trails (a camp for girls nearby). There are so many camps in Colorado, you just wouldn’t believe it. We asked Elizabeth (who’s in charge) for some tips about where to go on camp. She had lots of ideas for us. In fact, we won’t be able to fit all of our discoveries in this post. We headed to the nature center first.
Isn’t that amazing? It’s called a “model” which means that it’s meant to be like a thing and teach you about a thing but it isn’t actually the thing itself. I know, super confusing. Short version: this is the entire planet Earth, cut up into little spheres and pulled apart. Of course Taco felt comfortable sitting on the VERY hot molten core of the planet. Dragons, right?
We recognized some of these pieces right away, thanks to our Ute studies at Camp Shady Brook. It was super neat to see the pottery shards and pieces of glass they’ve found nearby. We thought that stuff was pretty old, until we found this map activity…
Hundreds of millions of years? We know how big that number is because it’s like money. Speaking of which, we could use hundreds of millions of dollars… But, anyway, back to the nature center. Fajita found this super cute giant ladybug. They wanted to take it home, but Katie said it belongs to camp.
It was wild to learn about how plants make their own food. And, clearly, they’re missing a business opportunity. If we all love eating plants, and especially their sugars, they should be charging us money for the privilege. They would be SO rich! And then I would be rich because it was all my idea and I’d charge a finders’ fee or something like that. Don’t worry- I’ll figure it out.
If you think the enormous plant is cool, wait till you see these animal treasures.
In case you come here, that Gnarly Tooth Hunt is hard. You have to look really carefully and get up close to some pretty sharp teeth. It’s not for the feint-of-heart.
Here’s Fajita having a stare-down with a fox. You can guess who won.
No, it wasn’t Fajita. It’s hard to lose a stare-down if you don’t have any eyes…
You probably won’t be able to see all the tiny critters swimming around in here. You’d need our top-notch eyesight.
Okay, okay, fine. It’s an exhibit about microscopic creatures and we couldn’t see them either. None of the instructors were available to get out microscopes for us. Maybe next time!
Which is why we were happy to find this exhibit of ginormous pine cones and sea shells and what-not. Check out these fossils!
Oh, ho, ho! What is this? While Taco was busy checking out the flying insect display and Fajita was making friends with this happy frog, I made the best discovery.
Who’s to say I’m not “authorized”? Exactly! I had to go in and see.
What is a “personnel”, anyway?
You don’t have to be jealous. Nothing good was in there & certainly nothing “top secret” or valuable. It was just a bunch of boxes and supplies. On the other hand, there was this table at the back they were definitely trying to hide from this bear. I noticed the sparkling from afar and we had to inspect it carefully.
Yep. Probably a gem worth hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re going to help ourselves to some gold mining tools and head out onto the ranch. With all the gold and silver and precious gems nearby, we should get rich pretty quickly…