Cispus was so much fun!! The bus ride was about 4 hours and you only got abot 2 stops, but I had fun talking to my friends on the way there. As soon as you arrived you had an hour to unpack your bags, make your bed, and relax. Then you get together with your counselor and do whatever activitiy you had planned to do. Me and my group went on the Angel Falls Hike first. It was lots of fun! It took about a half an hour to get to Curtain Falls. It's called Curtain Falls because the waterfall is like a curtain because you stand behind it. It wish I had my disposable camera with me! Then it was the hard part. Half of the rest of the hike was either really steep uphill or really steep downhill. When you got there, it was just a trickle, but it was beautiful. Then we had dinner and did the evening activities and went to bed. the other activities I did were the Pond Hike, where we went on a short 30 minute hike, Challenge Course, where we worked together to solve problems, and we ended up balancing on a log in the air, swinging on a rope to a platform, holding on to a rope while tightrope walking between trees, being lifted up on to a platform 10 feet in the air, and climbing on a giant "spiderweb" over a river. We also went on a Mt. St. Helens Hike. It took about an hour and a half drive with one stop at Windy Ridge forlunch. I'll never forget climbing over 450 stairs to the top to see a spectacular view of Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake and then having to step all the way down again. When we finally got there, we took a 45 minute steep downhill hike to arrive at Spirit Lake. the whole lake was covered with logs from the Mt. St. Helens eruption that happened 29 years ago. Everyone had lots of fun hopping on the logs. 

                                                                     I will never forget Cispus.      I Cispus!!

Olivia E.