The second leg of our vacation was to spend the next two nights at Grammy & Grampy's house. The kids almost immediately wanted to get in the canoe, fish, swim and play on the beach all at once. I think that they had accomplished all of those things in our first 30 minutes there;) Once they settled down they had a great time exploring the pond! Day #1 we spent just relaxing, fishing, swimming, canoeing and playing. After nap time Great Grammy Civiello came up to make gnocchi for dinner. Our kids love to cook/bake (really just so they can eat whatever it is, hopefully undetected;)) and they were very excited to help with supper and take part in making the gnocchi, which I am quite sure they mistook for play dough;)
On day #2 we took on the adventure of "hiking" to the waterfall. There is a chance that, other than the bears, we were the first ones to visit this summer. How do you know that? you may ask... Well we had to carry the kids the whole way in because the grass was taller than they were... and we saw lots of animal feces along the way. They best surprise for us were the great late season raspberries all along the "trail". After a surprisingly short walk and some great navigating we arrived at the falls. Besides the poor trail, another downside to the lack of hikers was all of the moss covered rocks down by the water... moss is pretty slippery when wet so both Gabe and Grampy fell... the upside was that no one dropped any kids, but as Gabe repeatedly told me, neither of them would have fallen if it hadn't been for the kids, so we are just happy neither of them sustained more than minor injuries. After our hike we stopped to watch the rafters come through the cribworks and the kids got quite a show when some of them even jumped off a cliff close by... Ben didn't understand why he couldn't run free here, but he took his forced containment better than expected... Audrey slept in her car seat under that blanket the whole time:)
On day #2 we took on the adventure of "hiking" to the waterfall. There is a chance that, other than the bears, we were the first ones to visit this summer. How do you know that? you may ask... Well we had to carry the kids the whole way in because the grass was taller than they were... and we saw lots of animal feces along the way. They best surprise for us were the great late season raspberries all along the "trail". After a surprisingly short walk and some great navigating we arrived at the falls. Besides the poor trail, another downside to the lack of hikers was all of the moss covered rocks down by the water... moss is pretty slippery when wet so both Gabe and Grampy fell... the upside was that no one dropped any kids, but as Gabe repeatedly told me, neither of them would have fallen if it hadn't been for the kids, so we are just happy neither of them sustained more than minor injuries. After our hike we stopped to watch the rafters come through the cribworks and the kids got quite a show when some of them even jumped off a cliff close by... Ben didn't understand why he couldn't run free here, but he took his forced containment better than expected... Audrey slept in her car seat under that blanket the whole time:)
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