Sunday Drives and Forest Creatures

Yesterday was so dreary and just plain...yucky. We were supposed to go to my dad's house but he had plans. So we ended up with no plans. And what do you do on a yucky Sunday when you have no plans? You go for a "Sunday Drive". Yes, I know. Gas is $4+ per gallon. And no, we are not loaded. And no, we don't have our own personal gas reserve. So, we didn't drive far on our Sunday Drive.

What we did do is drive to a national forest/park nearby. Zayden loves the great outdoors so we decided to go on a nature trail-hike.



He thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the new creatures and plants.

Like his snow boots? Nice, yes? He loves those boots! We call them his astronaut boots. hehe

Me? Not so much. I hate bugs. And dirt. But it was cool to watch him explore a new place. And the girls found a swinging vine about a mile and half into the hike and that was awesome. We spent a significant amount of time letting them swing like Tarzan. :)

And Marc found a buddy about a quarter of a mile into the hike.



He carried that damn thing the whole hike. Just to torment us with it. Well, me with it. The kids became fond of it and named 'her' Nim. They were sad to leave her behind at the end of the trip. But there was NO way that thing was going into my car! So, I convinced them that, if they took her home, Marc would use her for fishing bait. Heh :/ What? It worked!

During our hike we also saw this rare forest creature...



and when we came back out onto the road look who was waiting for us!

So, although it started out to be a yucky day, we made the best of it and actually had an awesome day. I have a few more really cool pictures but I think they may debut on Weekly Winners next sunday :)

Have a Happy Monday!