We had a few more kids at VBS today, went up to 102 from 84! My class grew, technically, by one although I had some that were there yesterday and not there today! The kids are really learning to love some of the songs we sing in our general assembly time, and I am going to try to take a video of that, although I am not sure how well it will turn out!
After lunch today we were given the opportunity to go out and see a place known as a 'buffalo jump'. For those who are not aware, a buffalo jump is a location where the hills are steep enough that the Native Indians could force the buffalo off and cause them to die. Since buffalo were one of their main sources of food, clothing, and various other things this was an efficient and effective way of causing a great number of buffalo to perish while probably not endangering any of their own tribe members!
The hill we walked down was very steep indeed, and had to walk carefully to avoid both horse(well you can imagine), and falling and rolling down the hill. At the very bottom of the hill was a variety of bones scattered about where they had been left for who knows how many years! I nearly stepped on one shortly after getting down the hill! My aunt was fortunate enough to find two arrow heads, the orange looking one of which actually still felt quite sharp!
After slowly climbing back up the hill, I found what looked like a teepee ring, and just to the side of that the circle of rocks you see pictured above. Perhaps it is just my wild imagination, but to me it looks like it could be a firepit circle!
Hard to believe that this was a short half hour drive from Weyburn, SK where we are teaching VBS!
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