Earlier this week we met up with my sister-in-law to go hiking. The kids are always excited to see their cousin Cedar and Lexi is a hiking expert- she knows a ton of trials that I had no idea about. This one was in Jamestown and had this fun little playground at the trailhead. The kids had a lot of fun playing here for a bit before we started and for quite awhile after we got back.
Natalie complained that she was "tired" the whole time we were hiking because she wanted me to carry here, but I made her walk as much as I could because she's never going to build up the stamina if she is always carried. All the other kids were little troopers and Torben ran all over the place.
The trail is over 10 miles, but we definitely weren't going to do that with 6 kids and a thunderstorm on the way. So we stopped at a nice little meadow with the remains of a cabin in it. On our way back down, Natalie was easier to convince to walk because she became enamored with the little wildflowers growing along the path.
Lexi said that she saw some black bears and moose on this hike last summer, but with 6 noisy kids and a dog bounding all over the place, we weren't likely to see much wild life. All we saw were a few birds and some insects.
We look forward to more hiking and even some rock climbing with Aunt Lexi and Cedar!
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