vacation log - we did it!

We went on our hike to the waterfalls this afternoon. All of the info. about it made it sound like a fairly easy hike. It is paved (sort of), it's only slightly over a mile, and it is wheelchair accessible. What the brochures did not tell is that 95 percent of the hike to the falls is uphill - or I should say upmountain. I would hate to think what the harder hikes are like. I thought I was going to have a heart attack on the first major incline - yeah, we are badly out of shape. It was bad enough as it was but we were pushing the stroller with Kaelyn and a bunch of bottles of frozen water in it. At one point, we stopped to take a breather and drink some water. Kaelyn was sitting in her stroller saying, "Okay, come on. Let's go everyone." I said, "Yeah, easy for you to say!" These ladies coming down were laughing and laughing. The falls was not big but it was kind of cool because you could walk right up to the lower part of it and splash around in it. After we left there, we had a picnic lunch. We were exhausted when we got back this afternoon. After resting for a bit, Kevin grilled some steaks and we had dinner outside (of course very pleasant). Kay got to play on the playground again and we did some bubbles. I have been trying to load pictures to my blog off and on for a couple hours this evening. I don't know why they wouldn't go through for awhile but they finally did so here I am up late again blogging. Kevin got some really good pictures on his camera too. It's a better camera but because the pics. were taken at 12 megapixels I don't know if I will be able to get them on here. If so, maybe I will just make a slideshow.



Kay-Kay and I (the water was freezing as you can
imagine!)




This is the higher part of the falls. It was
the lower parts that we splashed around in.


Kevin's camera has some much better
pics. of Kaelyn.

Kevin didn't want to get in the water. I'll

let you harrass him about why (because

I don't know).

Kay stood on this [very slippery] rock and

was singing and yelling.

This pic. is terrible as far as light but

it was very difficult because w/out flash

there were shadows and with was too bright.

We tried several different settings and

couldn't seem to get a good one.

This was on the way back down. (No, this

isn't what the trail was like. I climbed up on

these rocks)

Forgive the boring photo but I just love the

dogwood bushes and there are tons of them

here. They are so pretty and smell so good!