Misty Meadows
Photo taken Friday, June 25, 2010 9:59:03 AM
The first official week of summer break wasn’t so summery. Yet, we were determined to get moving and enjoy the outdoors, despite a drizzly and cool end of June. One morning I took the kids on a hike led by a small group from our local YMCA to an area we’d never trekked through. The Mercer Slough includes a blueberry farm and here you can see the blueberry fields in the background. We never made it back to pick the berries later in the summer, but maybe next year. The day we hiked we discovered that a wetland area can indeeed be quite buggy, so I was glad we all were well-covered and we managed to make it home with little or no bites. We took a long hike that day, and to their credit, Al and Gigi were troopers. Once we were home early that afternoon, they both ate hearty lunches (at least I had packed some snacks that morning!) and earned some well-deserved downtime. Enjoy the pictures!
This way?
Photo taken Friday, June 25, 2010 10:00:11 AM
The Navigator
Photo taken Friday, June 25, 2010 10:00:27 AM
Al was eager to check out my compass application, so I assigned him the task of navigator for our hike. He had a good time calling out our exact location and direction!
