Mount Ruth

Ok hier braucht es wohl zuerst eine Erklärung. In allen Nationalparks kann man an einem Junior Ranger Programm teilnehmen. Dazu muss man nur ein Heft ausfüllen, dieses in einem Visitor Center abgeben und einen Eid schwören. Danach enthält man einen Badge und ist fortan ein Junior Ranger. Klare Sache, dass wir da mitmachen! So musste ich entweder ein Gedicht, eine Zeichnung oder eine Geschichte auf die letzte Seite im Heft kreativeren..

A life lesson
Once upon a time, there was a bear in a national park called Mount Rainier. His name was Charlie and he was very special. He could breath fire. But he didn't think he was special because of that. Actually he was afraid of it. Especially when the other bears run away from him, not before teasing him like: "Ooh Charlie when was the last time you started a forest fire?" Or: "Oje Charlie we have already eaten, we don't need someone to heat up our soup!" Everyone thought (also Charlie) that it was really unbearlike to breath fire and so he tried to be as bearlike as possible and eat honey from trees and give bear hugs to visitors. But sometimes when he ate very spicy food or swallowed a bee, he couldn't control himself and *whush* out of his mouth came a huge orange yellowish flame. "Outsch", Charlie screamed, "that really really hurts." It wasn't the first time he had burnt his lips accidentally.
One day, after he tried to make friends with a squirrel or a chipmunk but burned its tail because he got a hiccup, he heard sobs from behind a big or even large boulder, which was cut into two pieces, probably by a ninja. When he looked for what was producing such noises, he saw a young man sitting on a benchshaped petrified log. He was crying. "What's the matter?", Charlie asked and Ryan explained him that in his country, which was more than a lot or at least 7 away from here, it was common to rescue the princess from a dragon before marrying her. And Ryan found a princess, who was so beautiful that he sometimes forgot to breath while staring at her. And they would get married but Ryan needs to rescue her from a dragon first. But there was none! He walked all 7 kingdoms to find one, but there was not a single one. Maybe they all have been extinguished in the last hundred years and now he could not get married!
Charlie was so sorry that he out of a sudden proposed to help. "But how?", asked Ryan. "Well I can breath fire and I actually love costumes!"
And that's how Charlie helped Ryan I pretending to be a dragon. And Ryan could marry his princess. And Charlie still pretends to be a dragon because after man heard the story, they also employed his service and he made many many friends.
So whenever you are an outsider or special in your own way - just pretend to be someone else! :)

Auf der Weiterfahrt sehen wir ein Schild: "Drive-In Cinema". So was lassen wir uns nicht entgehen und parken mit unserem Van zum Sonnenuntergang vor dem großen Bildschirm und warten bis Despicable Me 3 und Valarian beginnt. Gegen 2 Uhr morgens sind wir zu müde um bis zum National Forest zu fahren und parken bei einem Walmart. Es vergehen keine 10 Minuten und ein Polizeiauto hält in der Nähe. Verunsichert, ob das wegen uns ist und nicht in der Stimmung mit einem Polizisten zu sprechen, starten wir eine Late-Night Shopping Tour und kaufen nach insgesamt einer Stunde im Walmart einen Apple Pie für 50 Cents - Amörika! :)Read more