Ravine

=why i love the ravine ...=
 * its a great place to play.
 * its a HUGE place.
 * Clara and Peter and James are who play this.

Sometimes we play "The King's Men". We pretend that the King's Men are all trying to get us out of the ravine because they want to keep the ravine for themselves. When we hear them coming, we take our weapons and fight them off, that way we can do what we were doing in peace. Our weapons are swords, bows and arrows, daggers, spears and duck-head hammers. (They are really all sticks.) We hear them marching when we know the King's Men are coming. Then we get all prepared and we fight them off with our weapons. Then we stay still so that we can listen for more. After they are gone, we go back to what we were doing, but first we say a few sentences about the King's Men, like that they shouldn't keep the ravine for themselves. Sometimes the king comes and approaches too. But after all our hard work of scaring them off, we can cook, fix up our weapons, and we are all prepared for the next fleet. --James

The ravine is nice down there because, if you really listen, all you can hear is the birds chirping and occasionally a golf-ball whizzing through the air. I feel good when we are all down there together. Sometimes I'm bored if they don't come down. My favourite game down there is The King's Men. --Peter
 * [[image:levybunnies/DSCF0180.jpg width="366" height="493" caption="On guard against the King's Men'"]] || [[image:levybunnies/DSCF0185.jpg width="389" height="498" caption="the Leader of the Pack"]] ||
 * [[image:levybunnies/DSCF0248.jpg width="364" height="524"]] || [[image:levybunnies/DSCF0222.jpg width="400" height="530" caption="Peaceful and pensive"]] ||