A Hiking We will Go ...

March 29, 2012
 

It was a wet ... rainy ... gloomy day ...
the kids were itching to go outside ...
I told them they could go ...
as mom sent all their rain gear ...
and Grandpa agreed to take them on a hike ...
here they are waiting for Grandpa ...

 

They started up the trail behind the house ...
the snow was quite deep in spots ...
and was difficult for Ella to treck thru ...
so Grandpa brought her back to the house ...
the boys found an old rotten stump ...
and started to tear it apart with their walking sticks ...
 

Venturing further up the road ...

the kids came upon a tree hanging over their pathway ...

so Craig started to hit it with his walking stick ...

and try and move it out of the way ...

but it was rotted at the root ...

and fell on top of his head ...

and knocked him down ...

thank goodness it was the size of a branch ...

no harm done to his hard noggin'

then they continued to climb up the banks ...

but soon ended up sliding down the slippery slope ...

Craig loosing his footing ...

and rolled over the edge ...

James sliding down to meet him ..

I had to laugh when they came home ...

all of them ...

were covered in mud ...

their faces were speckled ...

and they were exhausted from traipsing ...

 thru the mud and snow ...