The Camping in September

In September, it is our autumn season and (Our autumn season is in September so) we had arranged to go camping twice, which were (was) our 40th and 41st camping (trips). Although both of the camping sites are within our county, one is less than one hour to get there; the other is over two hours and a half away.

Throughout the two years and a half (years) of (we have been) camping, there is (has been) nothing fresh or deserved (ing) to (be) mentioned. At one of the sites, the only thing that (the) children took joy in was playing in the artificial pond with a slope and full of cold mountain springs.

The other camping site is located in one of the few places that require getting a permit before people (can) enter the region in the deep mountain. The higher we climb up, the more coniferous forests we can see. This time we had planned to spend the Moon Festival in here.

In despite of a severe typhoon’s approaching Taiwan, we still enjoyed ourselves during the two (both) of the three-day vacations. We had a barbecue feast in the open air before we saw an illuminated full moon and a lunar halo in the night sky. There are (were) also many aboriginal forests with numerous gigantic and huge aged trees that were worthwhile hiking in the midst. However, only one of the areas is (was) open to tourists; another is (one was) for indigenes (indigenous) hunting; the other is sort of like a maze since many hikers have gotten lost in it and been rescued by the locals.

Do you like to enjoying the nature? My son loved (it) so much that he went to the same hiking path the (for) two continuous days, which took at least three hours and a half (three and a half hours) on the walking trip every time. In the mountain village are there (was) a remarkable church and an elementary school. Such amazing and skillful (basketball) performance of the children in (the) mountains in playing basketball attracted my son’s all attention (so much) that he couldn’t take his eyes off them and hailed (cheered?) them simultaneously.

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Two and a half years 

Six and a half months 

Three and a half days 

Nine and a half minutes 

<em>Joseph's correction is very nice. Not much to add. </em>

The Camping in September

In September, it is our autumn season and we had arranged to go camping twice, which were our 40th and 41st times to go camping. Although both of the camping sites are within our county, one is less than one hour to get there; while the other is over two hours and a half hours away.

Throughout the two years and a half years of camping, there is nothing fresh new or deserved  to mention worth mentioning. At one of the sites, the only thing that children took joy in was playing in the artificial pond with a slope and which was full of cold mountain springs.

The other camping site is located in one of the few places that require getting a permit before people enter the region in the deep in the mountains. The higher we climb up, the more coniferous forests we can see. This time we had planned to spend the Moon Festival in here there.

In despite of a severe typhoon’s approaching Taiwan*, we still enjoyed ourselves during the two of the three-day vacation. We had an open air barbecue feast open air before we saw an the illuminated full moon and a lunar halo in the night sky. There are also many aboriginal forests with numerous gigantic, and huge, aged trees which were worthwhile hiking in the midst. However, only one of the areas is open to tourists; another is for indigenes hunting; the other is sort of like a maze since many hikers have got lost in it and been rescued by the locals.

Do you like enjoying the nature? My son loved it so much that he went to the same hiking path the two continuous days , which took at least three hours and a half on the walking trip every time. In the mountain village are there  is a remarkable church and an elementary school. Such amazing and skillful performance of the children in mountains in playing basketball attracted all my son’s all attention so that he couldn’t take his eyes off them and hailed cheered them on simultaneously.

<em>* - despite + noun / gerund expression - Despite the approach of a severe typhoon</em>

<em>in spite of + noun gerund expression- In spite of the approach of a severe typhoon.</em>

<em>The gerund is usually used when the subject of the 2 parts of the expression are the same-  eg Despite being tired we enjoyed ourselves.</em>

<em>although + phrase - Although a severe typhoon was approaching..</em>