From the Mountains to the Sea

We hit these on separate days, but one (the mountains) was only a 15 minute drive and the other was walking distance.  The geography here is fun!

A hiking we will go!

With bonus wildlife viewing!  This is more rare that it appears on the blog; we don’t tend to be particularly quiet when we’re out on this sort of adventure.  At least our noise level keeps the mountain lions away.

                         
We’re also rather slow.  Think in terms of hours-per-mile.

But that’s okay, really.  There’s a lot of learning that happens when we stop along the way.  

Just look at those two happy faces—see how much they love all this!  Actually, they are smiling because Daddy is pulling out the pb&j.

   
Yummy!  Post-lunch, Logan plots out his next attack on the cactuses. 

Side-note/rant: Cacti or cactuses? sneaked or snuck? dived or dove?  It seems that I was taught that the irregular form (cacti, snuck, dove) is the right one in these cases and many others, but my kids’ books ALL use the regular forms (cactuses, sneaked, dived) and when I look it up, dictionaries and grammar websites tell me that both are correct!  So I’ve stopped editing the books as I read them, even though I internally cringe at every “dived”.

Woodpeckers, at least, aren’t intimidated by our noise.

A few days and only a few miles away . . .

All photo credits for this adventure go to Jake.  Mommy was home being peacefully productive.

      
Sand fun.

On the border.

      
Water fun.

Home again, home again, jiggity jog.