One of our goals on this trip is to get the girls to hike more on their own so we purchased these butterfly nets at the dollar store to make it a little more interesting.
They had a blast...you know, for a few minutes. :-)
K and I got a little too far ahead so we had to wait for Em and Dad to catch up, thus the random pictures of random things...
Oh and the picture of K waiting, not so patiently, on a rock.
When Em caught up, she needed a break...
K and Dad went rock climbing for a little while Em and I waited at the bottom.
Em climbed up onto a rock and then wanted her picture taken because she had climbed too.
After the long hike, we went swimming for an hour and then had lunch and nap. By the time we got out again, it was 4pm, but we decided on another hike anyway. This one had much better views.
But we really had to work for them...yes, that is me, with Em on my back, scrambling up rocks on all fours...finally a work out! :-)
We made our way up Cathedral Rock.
And took in the views for quite a while.
On the first hike we had the girls touching all the different leaves and comparing textures. On this hike, Em took her own initiative.
Yipee! All of us together? What? K's new thing is not to smile at the camera so even though the pics make it look like she hates it up here, it's just not true...she loves rocks (a girl after Mama's heart) and she really gets into being outside and hiking...until we pull out the camera. We have decided this is life and we aren't going to get bent out of shape about it...yet. Besides, we will know tomorrow, when she sees a real tiger perform tricks.
Em was cracking me up. She just started kissing me for no apparent reason.
Me and K out on the ridge having a conversation.
Chapel on the Hill...this looks so big and beautiful...it is tiny. The house across the street is bigger. But beautiful, yes. The girls were done when we got here so we didn't go inside.
And with that, we say goodnight to another well-spent day. God Bless!!
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