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Fun games and trips to brighten up your summer when its starting to get dull!

Great recipes and summery drinks inside

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Craft Corner San Diego Zoo Backyard Games Summer Movies Crazy Camping Commotion

Sweet Treats Lake Tahoe Cross Word Puzzle

Craft Corner

ROCK Animals 1.

2.

Choose any small, round rocks from your backyard.

Glue the rocks together in the shape of your favorite animal.

3.

Paint the rocks to look like the animal you chose.

Enjoy your new pet!

San Diego Zoo

hippos no matter where they are or what they are doing. The San Diego Zoo also has some cool animal feeding experiences. One of which is when the keeper feeds the hippos. The keep er will stand on a bridge above the water and The San Diego throw Zoo is a great place to chunks learn all about the unusal creatures of of food, the world. The San Diego Zoo was founded in and on october in 1916 by Harry Wegeforth. This zoo a special is a conservation organization who helps save occasion endangered species from all over the world. So chunks far the San Diego Zoo has successfully reintro- of fruit, duced thirty-three species back into the wild. down The Zoo exhibits over eight hundred animal into the species and around six thousand five hundred open plant species. Totaling over four thousand ani- mouths mals! The San Diego Zoo also has very unique of the hippos. Another amazing feeding exexhibits. These exhibits feature the animal perience avalible is feeding of the polar bears. habitats, making the animals feel more comThe polar bear exhibit has a large metal grate, fortable. Many animals, including the oranglocated right next to where the community can utans, polar bears and elephants love to show stand to watch the polar bears. Once a day the off their amazing and interesting habits and keepers will feed the polar bears fresh vegskills. The Zoo currently has quite a few animal gies through the wide holes provided from the babies. A baby giraffe has been on exhibit for grate bars. It is a great experience, to get just the comunity to see. He was six feet when feet from a huge polar bear, munching on a he was born, which is a com- crunchy carrot, with just a metal grate seperatmon height for ing the polar bear from you! baby giraffes.

Sometime during this fun-packed day at The hippo the San Diego Zoo your feet will be sure to tire. exhibit has an After all this zoo is huge. The zoo consists of underwater vei- a lot of ninety-nine acres. So when you start to wing station, as want a break, you can just hop onto the skywell as a on land fari. The skyfari is a tram that gives the bird’s veiwing point. eye veiw of the zoo. Now you can watch the This way the com- animals from the sky, while taking a break, and munity can see the getting all the way to the other side of the zoo!

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Water

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Gather the whole family together for this fun water game! One person is chosen to be the “snake”. The snake will take the water hose and move it back and forth across the grass in a snake-like movement.

The rest of the participants try to jump over the water without getting hit. If somone gets hit by the water they become the “snake”!

GAME

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Cerea Bow ing Collect all your old cereal boxes to play this fun game! Set up all the boxes in rows like bowling pins.

Find a small ball or a basketball to use as the “bowling” ball. Stand twenty feet back from the boxes and roll the ball to hit as many boxes as you can. After a few rounds, the person who has hit the most pins is the winner!

Summer Movie Preview

By Sean Gillum

Heading to the movies this Summer for a good movie to see? Want to see a good action-packed blockbuster or an animated flick for the kiddies? Here are a few suggestions. Coming this June, your favorite monsters return in “Monsters University”!

This prequel is about the life of Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) in college, when they weren’t exactly the best of friends. Also making a return to the big screen is the one and only Superman in “Man of Steel”! This reboot of the classic franchise brings actor Henry Cavill as the hero in red tights, with director Zack Snyder introducing Superman to the modern age. Both “Monsters University” and “Man of Steel” are expected to release in Real3D and IMAX 3D this June! If you want a good movie in August, there’s the animated film, “Planes’”, a spin-off of Disney/Pixar’s Cars.

This is the tale of Dusty (Dane Cook), a crop-dusting plane who yearns to compete in a famous areial race. The problem: He’s afraid of heights! Yikes!

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Crazy Camping Commotion Sequoia National Park

Sequoia National Park was opened in 1890. The all famous General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree, in fact the largest tree in the world. It measures 275 feet tall and 103 feet around at the trees base.

Guess where this amazing tree is located...SEQUIOA NATIONAL PARK. At sequoia you can camp out in the lovely sites. You also have amazing hiking opportunities! Chipmunks, raccoons, deer, marmots, and bears roam all through out the campgrounds.

Big Basin Redwoods State Park

Big Basin was opened in 1902, and is California’s oldest state park. This camping ground is great for everyone. There are hikes that are short, wheelchair accessible hikes. One of which passes by a beautiful fall, called Sempervirens Falls.

Another simple hike is the redwood loop. This hike can help educate you on the redwood forest and its beauty. Other hikes are much more strenuous, these hikes will take you further into the redwood forest and past many diffrent falls.

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite opened in 1864 . This campground is known for its great waterf alls, valleys, meadows and the variety of tree types. On this camping trip you have choices. There are siple of hard climbs .

One well known hike to take at Yosemite, is the 16 mile climb up half dome. The veiw from the top is unexplainable, so the hike is defenitly worth your time. But don’t worry, if you are not up for a long, hard hike, well there are hikes for you too!

There are many beautiful falls. Be sure not to miss Yosemite, Vernal, and Bridalveil Falls.

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Rhubarb Punch

10 cups rhubarb 2 qts water 1 T grated orange peel 11/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup lemon juice 1/2 cup orange juice 1/8 t salt

Make Y our Ow n Ic e Cream Sandwi

Bring rhubarb water & orange peel to a boil. Simmer 10-15 min. Cool slightly.

Strain. Return to pan, stir in sugar, lemon, orange juice & salt. Cook and stir over medium heat, until sugar is dissolved. Cover & refrigerate until chilled. To serve pour 2/3 cups over ice, then add 1/3 cup of 7 up.

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Use your favorite cookie recipe.

My favorite is shown below!

When preportioning try to make all cookies the same size and shape.

Then choose your favorite ice cream. Soften and spread about 1” thick in a 13” by 9” pan and refreeze. Use a cookie cutter, that is the same shape and size of your cookies, to cut out ice cream. Place between two cookies, wrap individually in plastic wrap. Freeze until serving.

Mocha Chunk Cookies 21/2 cups flour 1/3 cup cocoa Set oven to 300oF. Disolve coffee 1/2 t baking soda in water. Blend sugars and but2 t instant coffe ter. Add eggs and coffee. Add dry 2 t warm water ingredents. Add chocolate chips. 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar Bake for 15-20 min.

1 cup butter 2 eggs 2 cup chocolate chips 1 pinch salt

Lake Tahoe

Can’t beat the summer heat?

Come to Lake Tahoe! Lake Tahoe is the largest Alpine lake in North America. It is a great place to bring the whole family on those long summer days.

There are many fun activities for people of all ages. Biking, swimming, kayaking, and hiking are just a few of the endless activities Lake Tahoe has to offer.

There are hundreds of biking and hiking trails all around the lake. The lake is constantly buzzing with activity during the summer with water

sports and beach activities. Parasailing, jet skiing, and padddle boarding are some of the most popular activities. There are rental locations all around the lake where visitors can rent all sorts of fun water supplies.

There are a large number of restaurants, hotels, gift shops, golf courses, and casinos available for tourists.

Tahoe is extrememly popular for its skiing and snowboarding slopes in the winter. thousands of tourists flock from all around California and Nevada every year to enjoy the famous downhill skiing slopes. In 1960

the winter Olympics were held in tahoe, California.

Scattered throughout Tahoe are public and private sledding slopes. many ski resorts around tahoe also have snow tubing. Cross-country skiing, snowmobile

riding, and snowshoeing are also becoming more popular among tourists.

Boating is a common summer activity. lake tahoe is home to one of the most famous wooden boat shows in the country. There are a variety of boating activities on the lake, such as sail boat racing, guided cruises, and fireworks over the lake.

Visit www.laketahoe. com to learn more.

Cross Word Puzzle Down

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1. Something you build out of sand at 3 the beech 2. Something you watch on the 4th of July 3. Pools are filled with this 4. A delicious fruit filled with black seeds

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Across 1. A yummy treat served in a cone

3. Pretty insects that fly around in the summer 4. You get this if you stay in the sun to long

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Answers: Down- 1. sandcastle, 2. fireworks, 3. chlorine, 4. watermelon Across- 1. icecream, 2. swimsuit, 3. butterfly, 4. sunburn

2. Something you wear when you go swimming

Enjoy the little things in life one day you will look back and realize they are the memories of life.