Who needs a house when there´s a forest?

I love to wake up in the forest with no alarm clock ringing but the bird´s chirping. The forest floor is springier than any spring mattress and the air is absolutely clear. I don´t even mind rain in the forest; I actually think it´s more refreshing than annoying. To bad that I can´t live here permanently:(
It was also great to meet my little sister again - she lives so far away that I hardly ever see her except from the NAJU weekends. But now she´s here and as you can see, she loves the forest as much as I do!

outdoor cuisine

Julia prepared me a mushroom-shaped bannock bread with a champignon inlay - yummy! Johanna works on her spoon - she´s burning a deepening into a piece of wood, so that she can spoon up even soup and müsli with it. And Noemi just opened her egg which she previously cooked in a mudcoat in the fire. So: bon apetit, wild ones!

camouflage exercises

Julia and I found that we needed some rest from the kids and had the best idea ever: they got 15 minutes to hide in the forest as well as they could and then we would come and search for them. So far so good. We found two of our children after a couple of minutes, but the remaining four kids seemed to have dissolved in the mist - we searched for almost an hour until we found the boys somewhere immensely up in the trees and the girls hidden under foliage and branches, their faces covered in dirt. Great idea, really awesome! From this point on, the kiddies didn´t want to do anything else than improving their camouflaging techniques - and I have to admit they were damn good at it!

It´s Julia´s birthday!

our very own forest island