Vacation Part 1- Hostel in the Forest

The Hostel in the Forest

The Hostel in the forest is a great place to get away. I call it glorified camping. You can stay in a tree house up in the air or down down. They provide and organic dinner, have free range chickens, which Evalyn kept calling ducks, a library, great people, and rely on compost, grey water systems, and other earth friendly things. I love it here and would one day like to work here for a month or so after Evalyn is bigger. 

We stayed in one of the rooms attached to the main dome so that I wouldn't have to walk that far, what good did it do us, but leave it to me to start the them a new project. One night coming out of our room a rotted board broke and I feel off the 4 stairs. Luckily, I didn't break anything except the bottle of wine I was donating to dinner. My elbow still hurts and I got some nasty brusies but other than that, they are now inspecting all the stairs. They have been working on a lot of new things the last couple of years and just really need to go back and make sure the old things are safe. Come to find out 2 more of my steps were rotted at the nail holes.

Evalyn found a drum just her size. This girl loves dancing and music and is pretty good at it. She has even started to make up her own songs. 

Evalyn got her share of boo boo's but would brush her hands off and say "I'm ok."  Well, most of the time. She is such a big girl now. Everyone there loved her and commented on how well behaved she was, except for our neighbor one morning when Evalyn was crying because we couldn't get dressed fast enough to get get her juice. Lesson learned, keep juice in cooler.

Not only can he dance, but Jonathan can hula hoop like a mad man. Here we are in the glass house. a place where they do yoga, massage, or whatever. There is a pond right there and we got to see the ducks and the chicks. 

We had a great time playing guitar, drums, and singing together around the fire. There were some really talented poeple there and always is. 

After the fall, I found it best not to go to sleep, afraid I might not be able to move in the  morning, so I went out in the boat with a friend. I saw 2 shooting stars!!

I made an awesome fire at 4:30 in the morning, you know, there had to be one in the morning.... this thing got pretty big. It was kinda scary at first, but it held through the night! Evalyn did great around the fire.

Sweet daddy and Evalyn. We are in our Pj's still... watching the chickens.

They have a lake and the water was nice. The dock has a net in the middle like a hammock. We had fun swimming and using our waterproof camera.  

I think she wanted to hug and kiss the ducks and chickens. Everyone had little babies. 

This is Pepper the main rooster. He doesn't care when he crows as long as you know that he knows he is in charge. He is so beautiful. One night, at dinner circle time, he was up in the tree saying his piece about something the whole time. 

Evalyn loved walking on all the trails and board walks. We were lucky with  ticks and bug bites and just had to use burts bees. 

About to embark to the dock with our tot and water proof camera!

She is part fish and has my web toes.

We had lots of kisses and hugs and lots of "sit here daddy" sit here mommy".

Poppa Bill played this game with me when I was little too. You honk the nose, pull the right ear and the tounge  goes left, etc. 

She did some yoga with me the last morning we were there at the glass house. 

Looking sleeping.... hopefully lunch and then the car ride to come. 

For those of you who thinks she never pitches a fit..... ha ha. 

Waiting on the side of the road for Daddy. She said she wanted to go home... of course we were on our way to the beach and she had an even better time there!!!

It was a great trip. Next time we will go when it it a little cooler. I was able to advocate for Be the Match a lot and also was able to mention everything the Lord has done in my life, our lives, since the cancer. On the way to Jekyll Island we stopped at the best BBQ resturant. Might not have been best for my tummy but it was yummy. Brunswick stew.... hmmmmm.   Off to the Beach!