Summer Hiking

One of our favorite summer activities is going on hikes.  There is a group in our county that has joined with the library's summer reading club that offers thirty scavenger hunts at different parks all over the county.  We get a booklet that has directions to each park and then directions on where we need to go in order to find the rubbing, which is a post that has a rubbing on it.  We take a sheet of paper that comes with the booklet and hold it over the rubbing and rub the picture through the paper.  Once it's all complete we hand it in to the library so the kids can get a prize and then go into a drawing for another prize.  We have done this for the last three years but have yet to complete all thirty.  I'm not sure if we'll get to all thirty this year but we are sure trying. 

Last week my husband took off of work to do our bathroom renovation.  After a week of hard labor he wanted to do something fun so on Monday, which was also Independence Day, he joined us on one of the hikes.  It was the first hike he did with us this summer.  It was at a place I had never heard of before - which is why I love doing these hikes.  I learn about places we didn't know existed before.  This particular hike was labeled "hard" since the path went up hill for over a mile.  There were some waterfalls along the way.  In the midst of our hike came some rain but we were in the woods covered with several trees and barely got wet.  It was a nice way to spend the day but after the hike was complete my four year old became exhausted and the plan to do another hike didn't happen.  She had a few scratches on her leg from brushing up against some sticks and even though she handled it like a tough girl over time it started bothering her.  I think the whining and tears mostly came from being tired. 

The hike was located at an Indian Museum.  Someday we'll have to go back to do the tour.