This summer, Aidan's friend Kalin asked to spend half a week with us in July and a full week with us in August. Both of Kalin's parents are contributing members of our society and are otherwise engaged during normal business hours. My job, however, is this. So we decided to call our time with Kalin "Camp Kalin". Kalin's dad, Eric, made us some Camp Kalin t-shirts.
Here's a photo diary of our first three days. Yeah, I know. We are pretty awesome.
Monday: The making of the Camp Kalin Club Cave and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
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| Kalin's dad, Eric Zobel, is an awesome artist!! |
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| CK Club Cave |
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| Campers Erin, Kieran, Kalin and Aidan |
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| 65 million year old T-Rex that was lent to the museum for the summer. This is an extremely rare and precious event to have a T-Rex in Santa Barbara! |
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| Etchings of life in the Cretaceous |
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| A simulated dig in Hell Creek |
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| Blue Whale skeleton. An actual native of Santa Barbara |
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| Look Out! |
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| Max, the Great Horned Owl, who lives at the SB Museum of Natural History |
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The kids are standing in front of Max's house.
TUESDAY:
Garage Band, Beach walk ADVENTURE from Goleta Beach to UCSB and LUNCH at the all you can eat UCSB DINING HALL |
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| Garage band with Harrison, Kalin and Aidan |
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| Goleta Beach. High tide. |
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| The geology in Santa Barbara is dreamy good for us rock geeks |
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| Cue discussion about exoskeletons vs. endoskeletons |
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| Hey! A rope swing! |
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And a LABYRINTH!!!!!
Camp Kalin Campers walked the entire labyrinth without cheating. |
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| Stunning cliff views of the beautiful Pacific. |
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| Lunch at UCSB. Thank you Eric's Boss for the passes! |
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| Even though it was all you can eat, we were all pretty good. |
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| with the exception of Aidan and Kalin who claim to be dessertatarians. |
WEDNESDAY:
Hobby Store, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Craft time
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| Santa Barbara has an awesome hobby store. The owner and workers know Aidan. He showed Kalin the War of the Worlds model he bought on Saturday. |
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| Just looking was lots of fun in this great shop! |
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art:
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| Aidan and Kalin point out Bangalore, India where their one of their best friends, Srikar, now lives. |
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| Amazing collection in the Asian exhibit |
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| Portraiture in the Children's Museum. |
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| Drawing without seeing what you are drawing |
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| Painting wooden cars the kids received for FREE at the Art Museum. |
It was a fantastic week at CAMP KALIN!!!
Next installation, August 20-24
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