Sunday, September 5, 2010

We got lost for a little bit...

So just yesterday Aija, Agnese, her father, Ericks, and I all went mushroom picking in a secret place where absolutely no one goes. We found so much mushrooms! All very large at that! it was fun too cause we had to expedition  through the forest where there really isn't any real trail. After a while, we filled our buckets with mushrooms and the majority of them were the best kind. :) But then we found ourselves lost for a bit... It was...awesome. Really fun...once we got out. But we had to go through really tall plants where there was an infestation of spiders and other insects liked to reside. At some point along the way my foot slipped all the way into some water. All the way meaning inside the tall rain boot I was wearing. Was it really worth a couple buckets full of mushrooms?? Yes, it was. We never hike through anything like that in scouts. We always stuck to the trails. So a little trail-blazing was quite nice. The forests, everyone says, are small, but really, they are quite big. But the scenery was amazing. A seemingly untouched forest with bright green grass/moss covering the ground, tall trees that are nice and green, mushrooms of many colors: yellow, golden, orange, red (poisonous, but cool to look at), brown, and some had speckles on the top... they were deadly poisonous but I still think they looked cool. Some of them grow in perfect rings, one such ring circled a tree and looked cool. But when we got out, everyone was relieved to see the power-lines in the distance and the hunter's tower near the car, not to mention the car itself. So yeah we then went home but stopped to pick some fresh apples. It was fun. When we got home, we spent all night cleaning and cutting the mushrooms...and of course impersonating Bear Grylls (Spelling??) because of the abundance of spiders, worms and other insects we found in the bucket. :) It was fun. After this day, I officially dub Latvians "Crazy".

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