a-hiking we will go...

Every year my husband likes to try and go find fall foilage to admire and photograph, and somehow fit a hike into the day as well. This past weekend we went up north, not far from where he used to live, and enjoyed the cool (frigid, actually!) fall morning and hiked. Rachel rode in the backpack for about half of the trip and actually hiked herself the rest of the way.

She absolutely loved it (much to her Daddy's delight!). She started climbing these rocks....



...and then showed us how proud she was of herself.




She didn't want to pose for this picture...she'd much rather be climbing!




Then we went to this waterfall.




You can see what she was really interested in here....





Here's a little better one.





We left the waterfall and she enjoyed walking on the wooden path by herself.




Then she started marching ("Mahch, two, fwee, fow....Mahch, two, fwee, fow...." is what she was saying!)






This is a view of the waterfall from the other side.






And here she is after lunch....a full tummy and just as happy as can be.