July 24 2014
Jordan, Alexandria and I.. Each day of the stampede they would have a procession. Participants would emerge from concentric circles/spirals that had points that spiralled up from trenched or underground points. We were participating on the sly, including our subversive messages with the rest. However to do so we had a lot of help and a lot of luck. We managed to find to find an empty start point that wasn't used very often and the trenched end had been overgrown with plants and even a large tree or two. Built into the wall closer to the tree was a sort of simple cabin where we were staying. Each day we had to sneak our borrowed horses (extras from other groups herds) to our slot and get them all ready while we also prepped our borrowed wagon. The slot was a tunnel that led from one trench to the next and a few times I was exasperated to find that my fellow conspirators hadn't tethered our two big light brown horses well enough and I had to run up the back tunnel till I found where they had wandered to. Often far enough to pass other people busy with their own preparations. Things had been going quite smoothly.
It was the evening of the last day and we were planning something especially noticeable. My Mom had been visiting for supper. But we had to pause in our preparations as a family had found the picnic table at the abandoned end of our spiral and were enjoying the peace and quiet and nature. They were really quite nice so we couldn't begrudge their presence. The family included at least five kids who were very friendly. One of them (a girl of about 12-14) shared their gummy candies with me. (I was sitting in the wide sill of the wall window and there was a bench beneath it where three of the kids were sitting) As we were all hanging out I noticed a black monkey (not quite a howler monkey) descending into the tree of the trench. I pointed him out and one of the little boys with short "bowl-cut" blond hair and wearing a red long sleeved shirt that was too big started to walk up to the monkey and I told him not to go too close so he stopped and they looked at each other for awhile.
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That is all, that I recall...
