You will need a rice cooker and two rice cooker cups of uncooked rice grains.

1. Put the two cups of rice in the pot that goes in the rice cooker.

2. Cover the rice with water, up to the 3 line.

3. Stir the rice with your hands to get all the dirt off.

4. When the water gets murky, dump out the water slowly so you don’t lose any grains.

5. Repeat steps 2-4 until the water stays clear.

6. Fill the pot with water, a little bit past the 2 line.

7. Put the pot in the rice cooker and close the lid. Make sure the lid is locked.

8. Plug it in and press the switch to cook the rice.

9. Wait until the switch goes back to “keep warm” and then your rice is done.

We drove up to the parking lot of Johnston Canyon, but there were no parking spaces left, so Daddy parked on the side of the road. There were lots of people coming and going on the path. The mountain air smelled fresh. I could see the tree line on the mountain in front of me. I tried out my hiking shoes on a slippery log – I didn’t fall.