Humidity in Hueston Woods

Kinsey:

Hudson woods is really nice.  Although humid, catching cray fish and finding fossils was a lot of fun. It's kind of a long story how found cray fish. It all started when Zoë and I were bored. And Zoë said what she always says when we get to a new campground " Let's go exploring!" Mom set us up with a map and showed us a trail called Indian Mound Trail. We started walking and heard water rushing over small waterfalls down at the river bed. I looked at the map and stared at it as my eyes scanned the paper for where we were. I told Zoë that by the looks of the map we were heading the wrong way. She didn't believe me so I got dragged along instead. Eventually we got to the lake. I didn't think we were supposed to be there so I texted mom " Are we supposed to be at the water?" And she replied "No!" Right as it started thundering. I told Zoë we had to go. Then all the sudden all of these texts popped up from mom's phone. She was freaking out! So we started heading back as quick as possible. Now since you've heard that story you NEED to hear this story!
                                                 

The 100% true story of how Zoë and Kinsey got lost

by Kinsey & Zoë McClelland

It was a sunny day and Zoë and Kinsey were bored. It was 1000 degrees in the shade! The only thing they could do for fun was kick a vending machine and cross their fingers for a Powerade. It was a rather anticlimactic Thursday afternoon. They stared at a tiny bug enjoying a bouquet of clovers. 
"His name is Munchy." Declared Kinsey. 
"It is a rather anticlimactic Thursday afternoon." sighed Zoë. 
"They know" snapped Kinsey. " The narrator already said that!" "Oh." she replied "I know! Let's take a hike!They proposed this idea to their parents.

"Here take this phone, and this backpack, don't take candy from strangers, don't jump either, 35% of childhood accidents start with jumping and the cliffs, stay away from the cliffs, the acid spitting llama's too, those guys are dangerous" they lectured "Got all that?" "Yep" the children assured  them. "Off you go then" said the parents merrily glad to be rid of their children. 
"Did we actually get all of that?" questioned Kinsey. 
"Sure did" exclaimed Zoë. "If an acid spitting llama gives us candy we go with them and jump off a cliff." 
"Yeah, I think that sounds about right" Kinsey murmured. 
Thus they started off into the woods. They took about 10 steps and came to a fork in the road. But not any fork in the road, it was a 90,000 million fork! But not just that! It was guarded by a Bigfoot! Luckily, the girls ducked quickly behind a nearby bush. They whispered quietly. "We can sneak past him" Kinsey explained "Yeah, well that's helpful"  Zoë said as she sketched out a serious plan in the dirt. She sketched seriously creating a series of curls, swirly lines, and triangles and hearts and smiley faces. 
"What on Mars" muttered Kinsey "Forget your plan I'm winging this thing." 
"Wait, I can make you a panda if you want, or a dolphin , dolphins are good, right?" whisper yelled Zoë but it was too late, Kinsey had already stomped off, she had devised a plan of her own. She slunk closer and ducked behind a bush, cupped her hand away from the giant being and rang out a legendary call, " Ish kiddley opin boppin bo bo an beaten daten, slide, slide, ninny kaziny kazat kabibly ot, toot toot!" Bigfoot grunted and dragged his club off to the idiots meeting spot. 
"Of course" whispered Zoë under her breath, "The Idiot's Call! Universal to all idiots, they can't resist!"

Now thanks to Kinsey's quick thinking they were able to escape from the ferocious Bigfoot. It was a close cal! After Bigfoot went stomping off they approached a sign that read 

River this way 

Robo crayfish and Water acid spitting llamas natural habitat

Swim at Your Own Risk!

"There's a water version of the acid spitting llamas?" asked Kinsey

"Apparently" Zoë answered.

They headed down the path that looked most promising. But it wasn't long before it narrowed and the ground dropped away before them plunging 20 feet to the river. They were determined to keep going so they stumbled and tumbled their way down clinging to trees and roots as they went. They finally arrived at the river bed, it was muddy and mucky down at the rocks. "Let's catch some robo cray fish!" Kinsey said. Zoë set down her bag and rummaged through, searching for fishing equipment. she pulled out the line and the hook which Kinsey fastened to a nearby stick. she rummaged around in that bag for quite a long while, frowning she looked up at her sister. "what?" Kinsey asked, "umm... I may have forgotten the bait," she responded. 
"You can't 'may have' forgotten something you either did or you didn't. This is all your fault." Kinsey accused.
"What is?" asked Zoë.
"That we're lost!"
"How is that at all related to the bait?" Zoë sputtered
They tried unsuccessfully to catch cray fish with just the lines, safety pins and grass. Well, Kinsey did manage to get one robo crayfish to grab on but as she tried to reel him in a crash of thunder came rolling in and he thought better of it and let go to retreat to his watery home. 
But Zoë wasn't paying attention she watched wide eyed as a small plump figure wrapped in blotchy pink approached riding a young water acid spitting llama. 
"Well cover me in cream cheese and call me a cat, is that an acid spitting llama?" Zoë exclaimed.
"We should ask it for candy." Kinsey added.
"And then jump off a cliff." finished Zoë.
The little fairy flew at Zoë's face and cackled "I poke you! I poke you! I poke you in the eye!"
The girls retreated as quickly as possible scrambling up the steep bank. Half way up the phone in Kinsey's pocket rang out in a chorus of buzzes. A list of texts from their other popped up:

"Where are you"

"Are you lost"

"Did the acid spitting llamas eat you?"

"Did you jump?"

"Why aren't you responding?"

They responded with:

"We're fine."

Finally they reached the top of the cliff and the campground. It was a stampede of two as they rushed toward their site. As it came into view they saw their mother standing with crossed arms. They slowed their pace and strolled non-nonchalantly up to their peeved parent.

"What have you been doing their mother asked?"

"Oh, nothing." Kinsey replied.

"Yeah, it was quite boring." added Zoë.

"Did you have pink eye when you left?" their mother asked Zoë.

That is how we found a great place to go cray fishing and Zoë got pink eye. (well close enough anyway) The next morning Zoë and I took Mom and Dad to the spot we had found the night before. This time we remembered the bait. We used hot dogs pieces that we on safety pins attached to strings tied to sticks. 

Zoë's big cray fish

            Zoë and I crayfishing.

It worked pretty well. Zoë and I both caught crayfish, but Zoë caught a huge one that was about three or four inches. We stayed there until it started thundering again. So we headed back quickly because if we were stuck on that trail when it was raining it would have been bad.

Afterwards we decided to go the nature center. They had snakes like the copperhead, timber rattle snake, garter snake, rat snake, and a corn snake. They also had turtles and fish.

The turtles at the Nature center 

Then we looked at the map and figured out where to go to find fossils. It was sprinkling but we didn't care. We walked down a vey narrow and overgrown path to get to the a river bed where we spent awhile finding cool fossils like coral, shells, and other fossils inside the rocks. The fossils came from when the area a covered water about 500 million years ago. There are so many of them the park lets you take them home.

fossil

more fossils

And more fossils