Our cabin

Here's where we stayed with the students, a lovely cabin high up in the mountains. It was a great spot for kids because all the rooms had walls that did not come completly to the ceiling, allowing them to peer over the top and see their friends. On our second night, there was an exciting scorpion chasing incident involving a student with a cup and a teacher with a stick. The scorpion was on the ceiling of one of the bedrooms, so Tricia had to sit on a top bunk to reach it. Tricia poked the scorpion from one end, Jackson (a fifth grade student) held the cup on the other. In the midst of Tricia-poking and Jackson-holding, the electricity went out for the night. So then the two intrepid scorpion catchers were attempting to catch the creature in pitch darkness. Some additional students ran over with flashlights and stood by shining the flashlights up to where the scorpion was last seen.
While this was happening, the rest of the class was peering over their wall-dividers and watching. At one point, Tricia screamed as the scorpion moved, causing all 16 students to scream at the top of their lungs simultaneously.
It was quite an adventure.
Luckily Jackson is the most calm scorpion catcher I've ever seen. He was so patient, waiting there with cup in hand.
He actually caught five scorpions in all while on this trip.
Tricia and I were quite pleased that no students were stung. We DID have a student fall from a swinging vine with a THUD to the ground, but she was okay.