That weird sport where you slide rocks on ice...

So curling...what a funny sport. So every year Wolf Ridge has a bonspiel - curling tournament - and it is ridiculously fun. It is an insane game that is so complicated I hardly thought about strategy so much as not falling on the ice. There is four people on a team, the captain is called a skip and they tell you what angle and how much curl to put on the stone. I just tried to do what they told me to. 

 Here is a shot of me sweeping. Sweeping was so exhausting. The skip tells you when and how hard to sweep. You sweep to straighten a stone and to speed it up. It's interesting you sweep your stone to get it where you want and the other team might sweep more to make it move past where you want.

 Me preparing/trying to figure out what my skip is telling me to do.

 The slide....

It was a ton of fun. I played 4 games total and my team placed 6th out of 16.
I won't become a pro curler anytime soon but I would certainly play again for fun and have a much bigger appreciation for the sport.

This is something silly. For rock climbing I laid out bananagrams on a table with the word adventure already spelled out. I asked my 7th graders to spell out other words that had to to with adventure throughout class. This is what they came up with.








Coming home on Saturday - break is booked solid! I'm so excited to see all you beautiful  people!