Fun at St. Edward's Park

4/25/2019

Joke of the Week: What do you get when you cross a four leaf clover with poison ivy?
*Answer is below the pictures.

by Brayden Brown

On Monday, April fifteenth, the Roving Learners went to St. Edward’s Park. We waded, swam, played on a log and got dunked by John. We also made fish food out of algae. The algae was kind of mucky and slimy. But we had lots of fun doing it.

When we got there we ate lunch. After lunch we started hiking. While we were walking,I saw some poison ivy. Before this, at Home Base, we took a poison ivy quiz. We took the quiz because we are going to be around the stuff a lot over the summer, so we need to know how to identify it. We continued hiking until we got to the creek. When we got to the water we started walking.

We waded through the creek full of rocks. We did that until we got to land. We got to a small rocky bank, put our stuff down and played in the water. At the swimming hole there is deep water and shallow water. There is also a log that some of the Olders played on. I had to stay in the shallow water because my Little does not know how to swim. After a while John walked over and then… he pushed me into the water. I broke the surface laughing. John stomped over to me, I stumbled backward tripped and fell. John started laughing. I thought it was funny too.

John said it was time to continue so we did. We hiked up a little splash pad like creek. Then we came across another small bank. We sat our stuff down and, you guessed it, we played. We found a blocked off section of the creek and started playing in it. The blocked off section has lots of big rocks that we could sit on and talk. Also a little farther back is some land that we could have played on, But we did not.

While we were there we played PTP. PTP stands for Pepper, Theo, Phoenix. It is a game where we collect algae, dry it and then put it on sticks and then we went fishing. We collected algae and dried it. We did that for a while and then my Little and I got called to Pepper’s rock. She said that our “fish food" was phenomenal and that she wanted us to work at PTP full time. I consulted with my Little and we agreed that we would work there full time. We told her yes, so we were hired. Almost everybody was playing PTP that day except for Sal and Terran. Then John said it was time to leave, so we gathered our stuff and trekked back.

That day was one of our best excursions yet, or so John says. I think it was great because of all the fun everyone had. I had fun with my Little and working at PTP. I also had fun during the car ride there as well as the car ride back. If you want to follow in the Roving Learners foot steps, here is a link to the Saint Edward’s Park website and their address so you can rove, just like us.
https://austinparks.org/stedwards-park/
7301 spicewood springs Rd, Austin, Texas 78759