Rainy Day Adventure

Today we had such a super time. Brett actually cleared out his stuff from the lab yesterday and will never be going there again, so we had to do something fun to celebrate. We decided on a little trip to Shades State Park. It was raining when we got there, so we ate our sandwiches first, but ended up hiking through rain most of the time. But it wasn't cold and we actually really enjoyed no mosquitoes and seeing pretty much no one else.

All the pictures are pretty blurry because it wasn't very bright out.

This is the beginning of where the trail says "Rugged section." Which just meant we had to walk through the little creek and climb some ladders. It got darker--quite dark actually-- and rained harder while we were in the rugged section, and it was really pretty cool and spooky. Not scary, but a cool atmosphere.

For a long time while we were walking, Jethro was watching the little creek running down the middle of the trail from all the rainwater, and he kept saying "This would be whitewater for ants!" "This would be really rugged for ants!" "This would be a HUGE waterfall for ants!" And after about twenty minutes of this Hazel said, "Enough of the ant stories now!!!!!" It was quite funny.

These pictures are when it got dark and I had to use flash...so it does look darker than it actually was, but it really was really dark for awhile.

Here are the ladders. I love the ladders. They're so fun.

Here we were camped out under a little ledge for a couple minutes to wait for the rain to die down a little bit.

I was there too. Hi!

Talmage--wet and loving it.

It was so much fun to go on an adventure with our little family. Brett and I and the kids all had a great time. Next week Brett will be going to a town a couple of hours from here and staying all week to work construction for a friend of ours who was nice enough to give Brett some temp. employment so I'm sure it will be a long week. Good thing we got in some good playing today.