By Emily F.
Yellow Group D2B3
I woke up from a great night before kinda sad knowing that today was my last day at Cardigan. I knew that we only had a small hike, to Welton falls. The last day was probably my favorite. It was wet out, but it wasn't raining which was a good thing. We would get up to the smell of french toast. French toast is belived to be traced back all the way to the Roman Empire. The idea of french toast has Moved in time from the Roman Empire all the way to 2016. The name "french toast" was used in England, in the 17th century. The dish is called "pain perdu" in France, and it means "lost bread." The recipe and name was moved to America from the early settlers.
The recipe the kitchen at the AMC lodge was very good, the recipe Moved from the settlers all the way through time and then finally came to where we are today. It wasn't to soggy, and it was just enough flavor that you could taste the egg, and when you Moved the butter and syrup onto the french toast, it was heavenly. It was very good. I think I had two pieces. When breakfast was over, we all went upstairs and packed for the 4-5 hour hike we all were having that day, but our group split from the pack and we went to Welton Falls unlike the others, who went on the Nature Trail.
The walk to Welton Falls was all downhill to get there, except for the last half mile. Then it was a mix in between uphill and downhill. It was a fun walk, we stopped to sketch, in total we sketched 6 times there and on the way back together. Back to getting ready part, all of our equipment had been Moved in Mr. Woolner's trailer, to the AMC Lodge, other than the kids whose parents came, their luggage was moved to the AMC Lodge by their parent's car. This is an example of movement. We finished packing, and then went down stairs and made lunch, I had the same lunch as I had on Day 2, PB&J with 2 apples and a strawberry Nutrigrain bar, instead of the rasberry.
We went outside and then got to hiking. We hiked about .2 miles and then we saw the ruins of an old cellar, it was only the walls, the walls were made of rocks just like a rock wall. It was pretty cool so we stopped and sketched it. I sketched in the cellar, where 1 tree split into two. We brought our sketch book from home, and we also brought the pencil that we would sketch with from home, this is Movement. We sketched for 5-6 minutes and then kept hiking.
When we stopped the next time it was for a short time, we didn't sketch for long. We had finished that sketch up, and kept walking. We saw this one area that was pretty cool. There were a bunch of pretty tall pines, and they were all washed out and on the bank below us, roots and all. The water caused the trees to Move from their original positions, onto the ground below. I must add, just so you can really tell what it was like, there was a drop almost 15-20 feet down, a straight drop, and the trees used to be when the ground above the drop was, but because the water eroded the ground, it caused the trees to fall.
A bit further downstream, we crossed the river. It was a simple crossing, not to hard at all. When we kept walking from that point on, there wasn't very farther to go. Plus we had already Moved ourselves from the AMC lodge to here, so we took a snack break, no sketching, no running around just a snack break. We finished our snack break then walked so more and finally go to where we could here the water roaring, the cascading water, moving into the pool below. When we got to the areas that were fenced, so hikers couldn't fall, we knew we were close, plus we could see the pool the waterfall was dropping into, but not the actual waterfall just yet.
We Moved around a bend, and then saw it, in all of its glory. The waterfall was there, and the pool below was almost black, not because it was dirty, it was because it was so deep. The waterfall itself came from the same stream that we crossed, and the same stream that eroded the bank, causing the trees to fall. But at the very edge of the water, where the water was being spit out, there was a small pool. It didn't look like it was very deep tough. The waterfall was pretty cool, we went to the level of the pool that the water was crashing into, and most sketched there, but I sketched at the same level as the pool the waterfall was coming from.
We finished sketching, and then turned around and went back the same way we came. We had another snack at the spot where the water washed out the trees, and then a bit closer to the AMC Lodge, not far from the cellar ruins is when we sat down and had lunch. Where we sat was covered in moss that was almost 2 inches thick, so it was soft to sit on. Lunch was good, and then we got up and hiked the rest of the way back to the AMC Lodge. We finished packing, if we hadn't in the morning or the night before, and then went downstairs and Moved our luggage back into the vehicles that had brought them.
It was sad to be leaving because we had had such a good time. We crammed into the bus and then waved goodbye to our counselors. Gretchen and Andy ran next to the bus and then we left for good. Unfortunately for my dad, he left his wallet up there, so when we were going camping we stopped by the AMC Lodge and got it. There's a happy ending to every story.
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