Last week the kids and Mom got away for awhile. We drove for about two and a half hours to get to Bethel Park camp. where we expierienced numerous displays of God's creation. One of the most amazing things was the wonders of the Cicada [say, sic-a-da]. Have you ever heard a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... Chances are you likely have. It comes from a insect called a Cicada. Their parents lay their eggs in the trees and the young hatch and crawl out. They dig a burrow into the ground and then amazingly, they will stay their for seventeen years!! But that buzzing sound you may have heard is only the males making this call. After their 17 year sentence, at night they will crawl out of their underground prison and onto a tree. Then they will stop. After a while something amazing starts to happen. The adult Cicada crawls out of its old skin and and once out it will sit on its skin waiting for it's wings to straighten out and its bright green body to become darker. Some of the other creatures we ran into last week were a snake, (that Jude caught all by himself) and a toad. I did not want to catch this toad because it was at night and I couldn't see it to clearly. Believe it or not toads are poisonous. They have two poison glands on the top of their head that appear to be two bars or lumps, and if spueezed will spuirt poison. And yet another thing we did was played a game called tetherball and tennis which was a lot of fun.
Last week the kids and Mom got away for awhile. We drove for about two and a half hours to get to Bethel Park camp. where we expierienced numerous displays of God's creation. One of the most amazing things was the wonders of the Cicada [say, sic-a-da]. Have you ever heard a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... Chances are you likely have. It comes from a insect called a Cicada. Their parents lay their eggs in the trees and the young hatch and crawl out. They dig a burrow into the ground and then amazingly, they will stay their for seventeen years!! But that buzzing sound you may have heard is only the males making this call. After their 17 year sentence, at night they will crawl out of their underground prison and onto a tree. Then they will stop. After a while something amazing starts to happen. The adult Cicada crawls out of its old skin and and once out it will sit on its skin waiting for it's wings to straighten out and its bright green body to become darker. Some of the other creatures we ran into last week were a snake, (that Jude caught all by himself) and a toad. I did not want to catch this toad because it was at night and I couldn't see it to clearly. Believe it or not toads are poisonous. They have two poison glands on the top of their head that appear to be two bars or lumps, and if spueezed will spuirt poison. And yet another thing we did was played a game called tetherball and tennis which was a lot of fun.