a long trip

This morning my family and I went to ward pound ridge. When we got their we were hoping to find tons of frogs and salamanders. We parked in a parking lot next to a meadow, I went strait to the meadow. After about 30 seconds I found the biggest praying mantis Ive seen this season. It was about as big as a big eraser but wasn't as fat, at least they spread their legs out as far as they could. After that we started our hike. It was really muddy. After about five minutes we found a stream ,it was about ten feet wide. I quickly took of my shoes and ran In the water. As soon as I got in I saw tons of craw fish by the end I would have probably found thousands. I went to the other side of the river where the was sand and you could see better then I saw a few trout . Then my mom spotted a really big fish it looked liked a cat fish. Then it started to thunder so we went back. I was really sad that I couldn't see any frogs and salamanders. But I had a great time.