Pathfinder Sabbath (by Annie)

Last sabbath was pathfinder sabbath. I had children's story, and some of the other pathfinders did things too. The big highlight was that we got to hear Ron Whitehead speak, he's the person who runs the big Oshkosh camporees every five years. He told some pretty funny stories during the sermon. My mom also gave him a Panther pin which he wore all day. We also might get to stay at his house if we make it to Andrews for Bible Achievement in April. Atnother cool thing is that we will most likely get to hear him almost every year because he comes down here every year to watch the Superbowl with another member of our church whom he is related to.

Pathfinder Sabbath - by Emma

Pathfinder Sabbath wasn't very exciting. I ended up drawing most of the time. Ron Whitehead did the sermon. He is the person that was in charge of OshKosh. OshKosh is the international camporee. I can't think of anything else that happened other then that the pathfinders did most of the stuff like the thought, the children's story and the bible verse. That is pretty much what happened.

Pathfinder Sabbath by Sarah

We had Pathfinder Sabbath last week, it wasn't as fun as Pathfinder Sabbath out there but it was OK. Annie did the children's story, Tatiana had a short talk, Linzy did special music, and Loren did the scripture reading. Ron Whitehead, who organizes the international camporee every 5 years, gave the sermon but I don't know if he counts as a pathfinder or not, he was not even in uniform. There aren't as many pathfinders out here and they do a Pathfinder Sabbath every month so they don't give out honors and invest every time. We march in at the beginnings but that is pretty much the only thing in common with Pathfinder Sabbath out there.

The Aquarium (by Annie)

Yesterday we went to the Tennessee Aquarium. It was a lot of fun. There were two separate buildings, one had all the river animals, and the other had the sea animals. We went to the river building first. There we saw alligators, frogs and of coarse we saw a lot of fish. They did have a few sea animals in the river building but they were still very cool. I had no idea sea turtles were that big! After lunch we went and saw the sea animals. They had you start at the top of the building and work your way down. At the very top there was a rain forest exhibit. There they had a touch tank where you could pet sting rays, I had no idea they felt so slimy. They even had a butterfly room. We got to the penguin exhibit just in time to see the keepers feed them, we also got to see a dive show in the largest tank in the whole aquarium, it was really cool. Then in the jelly fish exhibit there were some jelly fish that flashed different colors. All in all it was a very educational day, we also had a lot of fun.

A Day at Tennessee Aquarium (by Sarah)

The whole day was fun. We saw some sharks, a couple of octopuses, jelly fish, sea turtles, manta rays, and a lot of different kinds of fish. The IMAX was really cool with 3D but every ones eyes were starting to hurt by the time we were done. We all got somthing at the gift shop and I got a really cute little turtle that has really big eyes. The whole time we were wanting our dad to be there with us. The next time we go - he goes with us! The pizza place we stopped at left a little to be desired but we made it through the day. On the way home, we stopped in Scottsboro at The Unclaimed Baggage place. It was really cool to. They had everyting from exercise equiment to wedding dresses. Annie and I had a lot of fun drooling over the wedding dresses. The whole day was really fun, and I hope we can do it again some time soon.