To Do, To Learn, To Read, To Visit....

At the top of our summer brainstorm list are the words: "To Do, To Learn, To Read, To Visit..." 

We are continuing to cross things off this list and make sure that we are fitting in the things we want to do before summer is a thing of the past...  

turning in summer reading forms at the UW bookstore

Anna wrote a review of the Nancy Drew book Ghost of Blackwood Hall: 

"A thrilling mystery that Nancy solves with friends." 

 

a big job of the summer: 

TO NOTICE 

a visit at the Burke Museum today 

(Free admission after doing the summer reading program through the public library- what a cool prize!) 

The Blue Lake Rhino Cave is not named after an Rhinoceros, it is one! One of the basalt flows in the Grand Coulee, the Columbia River Basalt, covered a rhinoceros, and now contains a small cave in the former shape of the animal. It is a sort of cast, made by highly fluid, rapid-moving basalt. The legs are four cylindrical holes in the basalt, branching off from the rounded contour of the body.

In the late 1940s a crew from Berkeley made a cast of the interior of the cave. They used jellied soap to coat the interior and then made sector casts of plaster. The cast is on display at theUniversity of Washington Burke Museum in Seattle. 

The best part of our day was volunteering at the food bank this afternoon. The kids had so much fun sorting and helping out there that we are going to head back at least once a month throughout the year. It was sweet to see them jumping in with such enthusiasm, but it was also such a sobering reality that so many people are at the end of their rope and rely on this to make ends meet.  It certainly brings perspective and makes us grateful for the many gifts that we have been given.