Lugmere & Divora

My family and my friend's family have been doing a science co-op since 2015, and to celebrate finishing our study of physics we went to the explOrotorium on Tuesday. My aunt and uncle gave us a membership pass so we are now members. The month we went was May, 2017, and for the explOrotorium the month May is Member May, so we got free tickets to the Tactile Dome, a gargantuan black dome in the middle of the science museum that requires sense of touch. It is all uncomfortable blackness which you have to slide, stand, walk and crawl your way through the whole tunnel.It was so dark I felt like Bilbo Baggins when he arrived at Mirkwood. At first you climb up and up until you get to an area where you have to slide down. At that point I felt claustrophobic and tight and I asked to be let out. Everyone else said it was their favorite thing in the whole museum (except my friend's little brother) but my all time favorite was the Tinker Lab. There you can...

Our trip to Yosemite to camp turned out to get rainy enough for me and my family to go home. But in the two days that we stayed, camping with my great grandma and my great aunt, we got a lot of hiking done. On the first day, we hiked up to Vernal Falls and ate lunch on top of it, and then decided to hike up to Nevada Falls and we hiked to John Muir trail after when coming back full of switchbacks ( me and my brother and sister went barefoot the whole way, for our shoes were wetter than a dog in the water). On the second day, we hiked a winding loop that passed a open view of Yosemite Falls, and its "cousin", Lower Yosemite Falls. This picture was in front of Yosemite Falls. The rain started pelting us with frigid drops, and we were so tired from walking, we decided to wait  at a bus stop. When the bus finally came, it was so crowded in there, there was not a seat left. I heard one lady say " I feel like a sardine!" So did I. Well, when we finally got away fro...

Lugmere is in the black dress with her teeth showing (me). Divora is in the white sweater and black leggings (my youngest cousin)!  The names Lugmere and Divora have different beginnings, but came together in one story in the end. I was playing "hobbit homes" out in the front yard of our house with my brother and sister. When we play games I usually instruct everyone that they should have a name. Anyway, I was the only one who came up with a hobbit name of my very own; the others having heard a lot about the Lord of the Rings, my favorite trilogy, and The Hobbit, another favorite of mine, were Bilbo and Lobelia. A few months later we were hiking in Georgia, and I told my cousin about my hobbit name, Lugmere, and she decided to come up with one too. She became Divora in an instant. We had been wading barefoot in a small shallow creek dribbling under a bridge and that got her into thinking that we could be wandering hobbit children (specifically the Baggins twins,) ...