Noah in the Middle

I’m back from caving! I think it was very fun and other people should go too. We got in the Church van, ate dinner at Fazoli’s, and then got lost… Timothy, Blake, Tommy, my dad, mr. Mccold, Scott, Cody, Phillip, Daniel, Mr. Brett, and I all went. After we had all packed up in the morning, if we had left then we probably would have gotten back at 10:30, and then we wouldn’t get to go on our always-important luncheon. So we decided to climb Raccoon Mountain. For a long time it was about 50 degrees upward. Now that was hard! I was ahead with some of the other boys and got almost to the top before the adults got there first. The reason they caught up with us is because we were going the wrong way and trying to scale a rock wall about 100 feet high. Meanwhile, everybody else was going on the path and finding it much easier to get to the top. It was very much fun! You should try it too!

I’m going caving next weekend with my scout troop. I hear that last year all the kids went on the hard course. There was two little kids and one of them ended up having to go home in the middle of the night with a broken wrist. That doesn’t really help my confidence… But anyway, it still sounds like fun. But don’t fear for me, for I know that you all don’t want me to die or fall or break my neck or… Never mind. My mom just asked me to stop. But anyway, this time everybody in my patrol (the newest patrol but still the most awesome) is going on the beginners so there won’t be any deaths or blood or organs or… darn it , my mom’s still watching me. But still, it sounds like fun.

I’m back! It was very fun, and at one point we had to squeeze through a hole about a 10 in. in diameter- on our back! After that, we had to crawl through Midget Madness, a tunnel shaped like a trench that had a low roof and even I couldn’t put one leg in front of the other! I had to sort of gallop my way it. Did I mention it was 30 feet long? Anyway, I had to climb up and down a rope, cross a tunnel that in the middle of it was a thin canyon that stretched down to reach even 20 feet! Some people had to carry their bags inside for about an hour and a half (WOW!) until they finally got to their campsite. Luckily for us, we were only a little ways in. I can’t wait to go again!