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Camping at Wasewagan with ACADEC

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Group Picture at Camp Wasewagan    For three days, the Mark Keppel Academic Decathlon (MKHS ACADEC) team celebrated the weekend with the Alhambra and West Decathlete teams at Camp Wasewagan up in Angelus Oaks, San Bernardino. It was a three day camp from November 23-25. Saturday was our first day, where we all met at Alhambra High School to get on the bus. (A few Keppel girls went with Mr. Tran, the awesome Keppel ACADEC coach!) An almost three hour drive, we got to Camp. There was a bit of snow at the camp, and from our cabin (Keppel boys resided in Cabin 4) there was snow right outside. The air was cold, but was really fresh (talking about more oxygen [cough cough, not the ones paired with carbon]). The cabin looked liked the camps in WWII, but more room and a ton more sanitary with a heater, and only two beds per bunk. Inside our cabin Cabin #4 Snow around our cabin     We settled and had lunch in the lounge (which btw, had an actua...
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My 2019 Whale Watching Trip

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   After two years (almost three) since I have went whale watching, I went again. This time however, my grandparents and my aunts from my mom's family came to visit us, and we decided to give them some fun. Since we figured the amount of people that ride the afternoon tours, we decided to go for the morning ones again--which starts at 10 AM. We got there early at 8 where we waited very anxiously for the trip to begin. The Karin Lynn   Soon the crew of the water craft arrived, and we filed into the boat, the Karin Lynn, a smaller one this time, double decked, with the ship's bridge at the top. Although smaller, the boat had tables and benches on the upper deck, (I didn't take a clear look at the seating area on the lower deck--Sorry!), and a canopy that blocks tourists from the hot burning sun, but the best thing about the boat we rode, was that the ship was lower, meaning that all the jumping dolphins and tail slapping whales are closer to all of us! Edge of San ...
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