After the dillo sighting, the hike continued as normal: Dijar walked ahead with Nico in the Bjorn, Ella tried to stay right on his heels, Egan tried his hardest to keep up, and I brought up the rear, helping Eg out when he needed it. D and El always run ahead and hide so they can jump out to scare us.
After we crossed the troll bridge, we came to the pond, secret home of the mud monster. First, Egan got lured in by a tiny frog. He only got mud up to his ankles. Ella, who had left us with the frogs to follow Dijar, mistook a primordial ooze pit for terra firma and ended up in up to her knees. D and I were, as Ella so frequently puts it, laughing our heads off. Ella wasn't nearly as amused. I pulled her out, but one shoe stayed behind and had to be dredged out with a stick.
We decided to head back to the car, where D cleaned up Ella with the spray of a well-placed water hose at the park bathroom and I stripped down Egan. He thought this was great fun.
We went back to the park the next day, but decided to play soccer instead of hiking.
Good luck on keeping up with the new blog! It can be a challenge, I know.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing the pictures of the kiddos. (The dillo is cool, too.) What are Dijar and Ella doing in the one where they're sitting on a bench? Poor Ella looks so sad! Is that her shoe covered in mud? Holy cow!
They're pretending to be reading and not noticing Egan and I catching up to them on the path. Yep, that's the shoe. Even after two washes, those white sandals will never be the same.
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