cross country skiing winter 2014

well today i had a wonderful experience cross country skiing at the Wilmette golf course. i have only been cross country skiing for a short while and it's super fun i had done it in Wisconsin but the snow was so deep but today there was nice slick snow at the golf course that you could glide across it almost as if you were ice skating. they also had really nice hills that were fun to go down on. cross country skiing is really a nice thing to do in the winter cause it's good exercise and you can learn how to do it in a very short period of time also you can do it when it's very cold out and still be comfortable. So there's a nice winter activity that you could do!!!. i wish i had taken a photo but it's hard to take a photo on ski's. that's all for now Ruben.

kelly ann and kid's visit

kelly ann and her kids betty, Penelope,maddy and sven are here for a weekend visit from iowa. Day 1 after they arrived and saw the play that i'm in let's Copy Each Other So We Can Be Copy Cats we went over to my house we hung out and we ordered some delicious empanadas from 5411 empanadas. then we settled down and watched snow buddies and magic puppy. at the beginning of the movie there was a zombie picture and Penelope who is 3 says zombies are scary zombies have the power of cats!!! so funny. then we had a frozen berry snack. after that we have to put pea and sven to bed there's a skylight in the guest bed room and pea looks up and says see that star that star is the power of the rangers.what great first day.

Chicago Food Boys

Check out me and my friends food blog the http://chicagofoodboys.blogspot.com we will be sharing our reviews of the culinary world of Chicago.

Geocaching

Hi Everyone in this post i would like to talk about geocaching. you might ask what is geocaching. geocaching is technology based treasure hunt you find these little containers/caches with GPS coordinates witch you can use on your phone or GPS. Geocaches can be as big as a 2 feet or they can be as tiny as a a little pebble. also there are all different kinds of caches. a traditional geocache is just a regular geocache. a puzzle cache you have to solve a puzzle to find the cache. and there are many other types of caches. each geocache has a number and a cache page that cache page will have the name of the cache a description of the cache a hint sometimes or even photos. the cache page will also have the digital logs of the people who have found it. there is also a physical log inside the actual geocache witch you sign and put the date that you found it . some geocaches also might have stuff like money little knick nacks that sort of thing. sometimes you might find a travel bug or a geocoin. travel bugs and geocoins are trackable items witch have QR or barcodes that people scan with there phone. each travel bug has a owner. the owner sets the goal for the travel bug or geocoin. for example this travel bug wants to go to Switzerland. so the owner places the travel bug or geocoin in the a geocache. a geocacher finds it he scans it and leaves a little note.  that note will be sent to the owner. the geocacher will move the travel bug to another geocache and the travel bug or geocoin will be on it’s way. the history of geocaching. geocacheing started shortly after the removal of selective ability . dave ulmer hid the first geocache in Beavercreek, Oregon on may 3rd 2000 and posted the coordinates online. on may 6th 2 people had already found the cache and thats how geocaching got started. but it wasn’t until groundspeak corp launched geocaching.com the number of geocachers and geocaches sky rocketed. now there are over 2 million geocaches all around the world from new york to japan. Geocaching originated from letter boxing a 150 year old treasure hunt that originates back to england. but i will talk more about letter boxing in a different post. i my self just heard about geocaching last september. i found my first geocache in Atlanta Georgia on a road trip i was on. we found several more geocaches on that trip. and then when i got back to Chicago i was even more interested and i started finding chicago caches with my smartphone. if you do have a smart phone you can buy the geocaching app theres a free one and a 10 dollar one. so i really encourage you to go out and find some geocaches cause it’s a great activity for all ages and you have a reason to go on a adventure get outside and have some fun.

Links to Geocaching websites

http://www.geocaching.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing_(hobby)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_Bug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoin

http://www.letterboxing.org

Connecting with nature.

Fresh air we need it and we love it.

When you go outside on the wonderful spring day you take the first breath. when you walk out the door and you feel alive you are alive you are healthy happy and connected with nature. I do believe that people really do need to connect with nature cause it's where we originally came from it's where our roots and our souls are originally from. we need to start putting down the technology for just a short time even though technology is great, we still need to take a little break and shut down and disconnect from all other things. and just let your mind be free and just get outside take a walk sit by a tree admire the plants the birds the bugs and all the living amazing things that are around us but we don't know it and people just need to start realizing that there is so much out there in the world of nature. Nature is almost like the internet it's full of interesting things and things that you can learn from and think about to come up with ideas. And then once you take the time in the day to connect with nature and get ideas then you an share them with the world wether it's posting a blog about it or just writing about it. The truth is nature is the roots and base of everything. everything we love everything that we have or make was originally started with the things that nature has to offer that's why it's such a blessing to live on this planet because of the nature and people don't think of that much and they take for granted. nature is beautiful take a tree for instance it has so many details and so many markings of it’s life  a tree is one of the many books in nature it has stories and tales of it’s life imagine if we could read dose wonderful stories of those thousand year old wise redwood tree’s in California how magnificent would that be. or the stories of the  birch tree’s in the new york city park imagine how much they have seen.   here is a poem that i would like to end this paper about. water flows tree’s grow  nature is peaceful and everything may not be in peace but in this moment i feel that i’m in peace and the nature around me is in peace.

Hello!

Hello Everyone Welcome to My new blog Adventures of a unschooler. i will be blogging about my adventures witch will include trips,art,foo,music,geocaching and just regular day life. should have a new post soon. Ruben