SchlegelRock

Since I’ve told you about a bad day as a parent that I’ve had I thought I’d tell you about a good one.  Yesterday I picked Tru up from a birthday party and started driving home past Steven’s Creek Trail.  Max and Tru recognized it from when our Ward had a walking group there and started shouting out that they wanted to go for a walk.  My initial response was to keep driving but then I thought, what the heck?  So I pulled around and we started down the trail.  When we got about a mile in I remembered that Linkedin is right off of the trail about another mile down.  So I asked the boys if they wanted to see Scott and we took off.  My only mistake was taking the lower trail for the last mile.  It ran across two “streams” and one fallen down tree.  You can see the tree from the vantage point of the main trail in the picture.  The kids did great.  Since it was spontaneous I didn’t have water or a snack or anything so we had to wait ’til we got to Scott.  The sun was warm but not hot and there was a fabulous breeze that kept us cool.  The weather couldn’t have been more perfect if I ordered it myself.

Then we got to our pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Scott was there waiting for us (that was lucky indeed since he easily could have been in a meeting.)  He gave us water and pop tarts to fuel us on our way back.  It was a really great trip that we all had fun on.  By the time we got back to the car the kids were exhausted which made me warm and fuzzy inside.  They went to bed so easy last night it was comical.  Both Oli and Tru were asleep before I even finished reading from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  Now I know  that they can handle long hikes I think I’ll head up to Rancho San Antonio with them once school gets out.  What a wonderful world is opening up to us.

btw I know that the rock star theme has nothing to do with hiking or pots of gold, I just really liked it. And yes, Tru is wearing Batman pajamas with a cape.  It was a themed party.

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