April 27, 2010

• Third Beach la Push

  Friday we decided to pack up and go for a day hike.

  

  Rob willingly carried our lunch.  Pasta Salad, Chips, and a snack of cheeze and crackers.  Each child carried there own water bottle.  The plan was to hike down to the beach have a nice leasurely lunch, play, relax, and then eventually slowly make our way UP UP UP the trail back to the car.  Its about a mile and a half one way, which is a bit long for Jeremiah's 5 year old legs.  LOL

  The trail down was beautiful.  TONS of trilliums blooming everywhere.

  And I think Rainee stopped and took pictures of 75% of them.  She got a Cannon camera for her bday and she's just a wee bit shutter happy.  LOL  Okay madly insanely shutter happy.  Every time I saw her she was squatted down taking another picture of a trillium.

  

  The forest was gorgeous, the trail mostly down hill, with a few wobbly roots and rocks, but not bad.  The kids were all in a fantastic mood, and the weather was a balmy 54-55 degrees.   We admired trees, and stumps, and fungus.
  

  
  Sorry that last ones blurry...it was rather dark under the trees.

    And thoroughly enjoyed ourself.  The last 3/4's of a mile was VERY VERY steep,  and the last 1/4 of a mile gave us a suprise.

  The WIND.  COLD wind.

  And when we got to the beach.

  
  It just wasn't that appealing for reasons you can see.  And with wind chill it was NASTY!!!

  We hid behind a piece of driftwood and quickly ate our lunch.  FREEZING!!!!

  

  Sheltered a bit longer behind this rock and watched some seagulls.  At this point several kids were shivering, and teeth chattering.  Which as you know is the ONLy sign of hypothermia that you get, so we knew we needed to get moving.

  So without the break we needed we headed up up up.

  

  One of several rest stops.  This one was still where the wind was, so the kids hid behind this tree.  I had by this time warmed up thanks to climb climb climbin.

  Zeria started getting stomache cramps.  And that made her almost in capable of climbing the hill.  Jeremiah made it all the way up the nasty thing on his own steam. 

  But we still had a mile of hiking.  And it was cold.  And Jeremiah was officially DONE walking.

  Rob took Zeria's water bottle, camera and back pack, and Jeremiah.  Samuel who deserved sainthood that day also took LONG turns carrying Jeremiah.

  Rob and I took turns talking, coaxing, and distracting Zeria to the car.   And about a half a mile from the car just to make things complete it started raining.

  Yup, not the best adventure planned in this family ever.  ROFL.

  And I don't think my kids will be talked into returning there for quite a LONG while.

  The good news was, I made it on my own steam, and actually wasn't that tired.  And was barely sore the next day, which made me know I'm very recovered from my surgerys.  *cheers*

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