Chocloate covered orange peels!

Today we went to Trackers. When we got there, we made an obstacle course. You had to weave between the backpacks, jump one backpack, climb over the sign, run over two picnic tables, jump up as high as you could and touch the tree, and run back to the start. I got the second best time, with the winner having 17 seconds and me having 17 seconds and a half.

After that we played a game called lillypads. There is one island,(a tree) and you are jacanas, a type of bird that walks on lillypads and lives in Texas, trying to get to the opposite bank(a path). To get lillypads,(pieces of cardboard) you have to ask the game overseers a question about the landscape that is not a how-many question that they cannot answer, but there are only enough lillypads to be gotten for everyone to have one. You can move the lillypads, but not if you are standing on it, and if anyone steps in the water, they have to give one lillypad back to the game overseers and go back to the start, but they can choose which lillypad. And if one person uses two pieces of cardboard to zoom to the bank, then there is a band of fierce jacanas who will take captive any who come alone. The game is finished when everyone gets to the bank.

After lillypads, we went on a plantwalk and looked at different edible and medicinal plants and their uses, the uses being scant, probably because the teacher didn't want us to pick and eat leaves and roots when we had a sickness. After the plantwalk, we did a challenge to turn over a tarpaulin while all thirteen people in the class were standing on it. After we did that three teams tried to find all the different leaves in a certain pattern.

When we went home, we made heart-shaped dark chocolate covered candied orange peels. We used oranges from our own tree. I sliced and peeled the oranges, then used a cheese grinder to get rid of the pith. Then my sister cut them into either hearts, flowers or strips. Then we boiled them in hot sugar water while we did math, and when there was hardly any liquid left mom took out the orange peels and let them dry. After math I tasted a candied orange peel, which taste delicous even without chocolate on them. Then we put some dark chocolate in the fondue pot and melted it. We dipped the candied orange peels in the chocolate and pulled them out when they were covered in chocolate.

Not surprisingly, they didn't last long.