Lower Bear Trail Hike + Strawberry Park Hot Springs

There's been an agreement that the kids need a little more easing into all-day Kindergarten, so I'm going to pick them up at 11:30 one day a week for now. But not just to come home and lie around the house; instead, for an adventure. 

Yesterday was our first day of Afternoon Adventure, and it was glorious. We stopped and spent quarters to get gumballs and then had lunch at the sandwich shop (the kids' favorite). Then we put on our hiking shoes (and Zo insisted on changing into her swimsuit and cover up and hikers, lol) and then we hiked a trail we'd never been on before, Lower Bear, it was steep and windy and it rained sideways for a couple minutes like little shooting stars covering the sky and there were just a few aspen leaves hanging on and we collected leaves, Luke found a cool one that was decomposing in the middle so all that was left was veins. And then we went to Strawberry Park Hot Springs and played and played and played...we would have stayed longer but I was worried Daddy would worry about us.

It was great. I've really been missing times like this with the kids. Need to make it so there are more of them...

XOXO