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Ellie & Bjorn

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Auriana & Natalie

June 2013

This is a letter we received from Isaac, while he was gone to the boys ranch in Victor, ID for two weeks. 

Dear Family,

I am having an absolute blast here!  Everybody is super cool and I’m friends with everyone!  That’s so cool that Matt and Brenda are engaged, they’ve been dating for like twenty years and then they pick right now, when I’m gone, so I don’t get any glow sticks!   And to answer Dad’s question, yes, I’m surviving, and they know I’m allergic to peanuts so I don’t really have to worry. 

It’s super fun here!  Something I’ve really gotten into here is blacksmithing. I made something for all the kids in the family!   I made Enoch something out of wood, but I made all of the girl’s cool pendants out of metal. 

Ok, so funny thing, there is six groups right?  And I know five people who came here, and there’s three cabins, right?  And so two groups share a cabin.  I didn’t get Jacob or Daniel (cousins) in my group or in my cabin!  All three of us are in different cabins.  What are the chances!?  Luckly Brandon (2^nd cousin) is in my cabin so that’s cool, but I guess I don’t really mind, because this way I get to meet new people and stuff.  All the people in my group are way cool!  Brandon is in my activity group and when we went kayaking we went around flipping over everybody else!  No one could catch us because we were so fast. 

And yeah, we have to do chores and stuff, but I don’t really care because it’s mostly way fun.  Even when we move pipe we race so it takes the grumpiness out of it.  We have a ton of free time, so me and my friends do some really fun stuff.  We set traps for rabbits and skunks (good thing we didn’t catch a skunk), but we didn’t catch a rabbit either, we caught this kid named Glen instead.  It was pretty funny! 

We’re leaving on the backpacking trip tomorrow, and table rock isn’t one of the options, because it’s too easy.  We do three-day backpacking trips. I’m doing the hike called Green Lakes, it’s not the hardest, but it’s one of the funnest ones.   Remember how I read the book “Holes” right before I came here?  Well that’s the book that Dick (Bjorn’s uncle who owns the ranch) is reading aloud to us this year.  Weird coincidence, huh?  And it’s so funny that I’m going on the hike called “Green Lakes.” 

We’ve done some pretty cool stuff this year!  Like the counselors build a little waterwheel on the little stream in front of the main house, then someone had the idea to build a clock that ran off the power of the water wheel.  And believe it or not, it actually worked!  We’re building an ampitheater, it’s pretty cool!

I’ve only had bad allergies one time and that was because I was army crawling through waist high grass when we were playing capture the flag, but it only lasted till I went to bed and I was fine the next day.   We went to a bike track in Victor yesterday with six other people and it was super fun, the best part was going to the Emporium for shakes.  I’ll tell you all the other stuff when I get back. 

Love,  Isaac

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Nicole & Berry in chalk: by Miriam

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