We decided to go hiking again for our last day of vacation. I brought Mikayla & TJ with us and Jenny & her kids came too. This was TJ's first time hiking and he LOVED it! He was a little nervous about first getting in the water but Emma held his hand and showed him how to navigate across the rocks. Once he got his bearing down, there was no holding him back! He loved wading in the water, climbing on the boulders, and, most of all, throwing rocks into the stream! He and Emma loved seeing how big a splash they could make. Unfortunately Emma's aim isn't quite as good as TJ's yet and she beaned Katie in the back of the head at one point! I felt bad laughing as I checked on her, but she was okay. Then Lucy fell in the water and cut her hand open and Mikayla's choice of shoes gave her blisters. But such are the casualties of "roughing it." I think the kids had a great time. Jenny brought picnic stuff and we even brought folding chairs for us old fogies to relax in while the kids played. We ventured further up and down the river this time too and the kids found some new watering holes to splash in. It was sad to see that some disrespectful people had apparently been up there since our visit last week and there was graffiti on the rocks and one of the dams had been destroyed. So Tim took it upon himself to start building another dam. The girls and babies helped him off and on and he did a great job by the time it was finished! One of the neatest things about today is that we even found a "waterslide!" There was a small waterfall and a slanted rock going right through it. The kids loved that. Emma decided, after climbing all the way up, that she did NOT want to slide down but TJ and the older kids liked it. It was a great day and a wonderful end to our summer vacation!
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