Touring Crystal Cave Near Hudson, Wisconsin With Erin

                                                             June 14: Crystal Cave

    We went to the longest cave in Wisconsin.  It was found by two boys, William and George Vanesse. They were brave, for they grabbed a lantern and traveled deep into the water-filled cave. Of course, when I was there, there were lights everywhere. But they only had one measly little lantern!

The first thing we saw was a crystal in the wall. He told us the dripping liquid on the ceiling was calcium carbonite. He (our tour guide) told us a legend about this odd pillar in the cave, and if you walked around it once, you'd get good luck for two days. If you walked around it twice, you'd get bad luck for four days.  But I don't think a fever is good luck. :-)  I had a fever because I got a bug bite. We had to go to Urgent Care and I'm still on antibiotics!

   My favorite part was the end with some cool, ancient animal fossils! I mean, isn't that just awesome?! There was a curly shell-like fossil and a long, jellyfish-like fossil, along with two more.

  Well, thanks for reading and stay tuned for more blogs with Erin!
And about the shout-outs, I'm still working on figuring so thanks for being patient! Remember, sign up on the main page of my blog in the upper right hand corner.  Just put your email address in to subscribe.

Greenhouse in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin With Erin

                                                                 June 13: Greenhouse

   We knew someone who worked at Christenson Floral, a greenhouse/store near Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin.  His name is Sean Christenson, and he is the husband of my dad's niece, Angie.

He gave us a tour of the six sections of the greenhouse. We learned that the important parts of the flower are the Pistil &  Stamen.   The Stamen is the male part of the plant and the Pistil is the female part of a plant. Without both of them, there would be no seed. Without the seed, there is no plant.

     Genevieve and Abram,  Sean and Angie's kids, were also with us. Abram was pretty much telling the whole tour even though he was younger than me. Gen kept distracting me with flowers and leaves.

Then we saw some rocks split in half called geos. They looked like crystals inside! It was incredible. I learned about geos in fourth grade! We saw a rock cutter that was pretty big.

Before I end this blog, I'll be starting shout-outs when I finally the posts and comments you've been leaving. Well, thanks for reading and stay tuned for my next blog! Make sure to enter your email address on the front page of the blog in the upper right hand corner to subscribe.

Wisconsin Dairy Farm Experience with Erin

    So... if you haven't seen my last blog, please do so.  Today, picture a fair-sized house in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Now, we go in a pickup truck to a dairy farm. My aunt & uncle know someone there named Asher. He was very nice and he gave us a tour of the massive cow complex! Whoa!

   Before Asher had come, we saw 2 little calves and many goats. It was sorta like a petting zoo! They licked your hands and toes, and tried to bite you! The next area was cow confusion!

    First, he opened up a big garage that reeked of manure. And what a sight! There was a row of over 3,000 cows, he told us! Asher told us to stay away from them, because most of them were scared
of us. After that, we got back in the pickup to a new area.

    The next area was a big circle where cows would walk into stalls and the staff would disinfect, clean, and make sure the cow was healthy by squirting a bit of milk out. Then they would actually be milked. After they were done, the cows would joyfully run and turn out of the stall back to their own stall. Asher brought us into the middle of the large circle and let us see the pipes where the milk would flow.    

   There were some big tanks filled with milk that would cool the milk. Then the milk would flow into a truck, which could hold 50,000 gallons of milk! Cool!

   Now, the last area is the funniest! We drove to this place where, in this lake thing, Asher said there were 23,000,000 gallons (23 million gallons) of manure in there! 23 million!

Well, that was a fun factory to go to, and now this blog is over. Thank you for reading this, and stay tuned for more blogs with Erin!

RV Living Starts

Welcome to the start of RV living with Erin Blaskowski! We've moved 35 yards from our house.

We have just finished school, me and my brother, Ethan.

Ethan finished 5th grade, and I finished 4th Grade. I'm 10 years old.

Here are some things I like about the RV so far:
1. I sleep on the couch, which is actually a pull-out bed
2. There's a lot of storage under my parents' bed
3. We found a way to set up the Wii and the GameCube
4.We have some fans and a big window in the front of the RV
5. We don't have to get up at 6:15 a.m. for school

Here are some things I dislike about the RV:
1. I will miss my friends =(
2. My poor dad is working nonstop, dealing with the many issues of the RV, such as 5 springs popping off my couch-bed
3. Ethan wakes up earlier than me and wakes me up because he's right next to me
4. It's a very tight space
5. I have to get rid of a lot of toys



That's pretty much the end of this summary, so stay tuned for the next exciting RV/Sailing Adventure!