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This week I made oatmeal but it isn’t just oatmeal it is special oatmeal! 😮 So first, put two or more cups of water in a pot. 🙂

this post got lost I might rewrite it

luluebell

Have you ever seen the ocean? Let alone its floor? I will take you on a journey to the bottom of the seafloor. Once you are past the coral the seafloor will drop and after the drop the life will seem to disappear but look closer and life is still thriving, but not as extravagantly as coral life. You can find families or urchins, a lone tripod fish, at the edge of perilous cliffs animals shaped to look like plants to catch micro animals such as amphipods and other such micro animals. Very rarely an entire whale will sink to the seafloor and animals will feed on it for years. The first to find such a big feast will be the hag fishes then sharks and so on, after some of the bones are picked clean plankton and bacteria will take root on the bones and live there, and after a year or so the hagfish, all ways first to come last to leave, will still chewing on some meat still there. Go even deeper and you will encounter hydrothermal vents, these vents are connected to the mantle when water seeps into holes in the ground and mixes with the magma it releases poisonous gases and a thick black steam, the temperature of the water is so hot that usually it would turn to steam but because of the high pressure the water stays water. Earlier I mentioned that hydrothermal vents released poisonous gases and might thinking“How could life survive there?” In bafflement. Well life survives by, instead of the bottom of the food chain being plants they are micro plankton and are then eaten by tube worms and stuff like the then crabs and finally to the fish which are very rare down here. To conclude this I will talk about the the natural phenomena under water lakes. Now this no doubt making you ask“Underground lakes ! ill believe underwater lakes but that is just absurd!”But it is possible it is just heavier-brine-filled water than the surrounding water.

-HF

The day of the field trip, before my class got on to the buses, at home, me and my mom packed our bags for the field trip and went to school. After going through the procedures we disembarked, we being the whole of 4th grade, including 77 smelly, loud and not to mention nerdy, and awesome people scattered throughout the throng. I joined up with my group consisting of my mom one of my best friends and his mom and three other friends we, as a group, named ourselves the nerds. First the whole of 4th grade got on two school buses and went to … ONE MILE ABOVE SEA LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aka thirteen step of the capital building. Then our troop moved onward and yon-ward until we got to… MC. Donald’s! The only thing to say about that is … well don‘t go there. After we got there and went we loaded onto ONE insanely packed bus to go to City Park. After City Park the rest of the day went past in a blaze as we were so fatigued, but we still we went to Union Station jumped on the 150 Meridian( I think…) and saw some cool stuff. And for dinner we went to the Old Spaghetti factory. The end of the days excitement had ended. At least I had thought so! No not quite the excitement had far from ended as, I am a boy I had to sleep with the rest of the boys and boy where the loud! No one fell asleep till 11:00 pretty much.

Once we had all woken up we ate a sugar filled breakfast. And started the ghost part of the tour where we got to see some of the creepiest houses in Denver. Then we were able to see the Supreme Court it was AWESOME!! But that pretty much ended our day. So we went back to the mansion and got on buses and drove back to school

-HF