outdoor adventure club

friday night i took a group of bis 12 and 13 year olds on an overnight trip to the alpine fund dacha just outside of ala-archa national park.  ten kids total with myself and two other teachers from the school (mr. victor and mr. wes).  this is second year that i have taken a group of kids up to the mountains (jen went with me last year... boone replaced her this time around).  the night started with a great dinner of plov (courtesy of nina) and salad.  shortly after dinner one of the kids got really sick (not from the plov i hope) and i ended up driving him home back down the mountain in the dark and snow.  as it was so late by the time i got to bishkek i ended up staying home with jen and olivia.  no complaining on my part.  i got a nice, quite night's sleep while victor and wes were up all night with loud, hormonal kids.  oh... and the power went out for them at midnight so other than a very modest and fast burning fire in the stove... they froze all night.  i pretty much made out on that one.  thank you nurtay for getting sick.

i drove up early the next morning to meet the group and hike with them to a nearby hill for sledding.  boone was pretty much in heaven.  we returned back to bishkek around 100pm.