Bullards bar hike...4/26/2009

This is an old jail....I cracked me up...Just in the middle of the town. Inside you can see a wooden frame for a bed. On each side of the walls there is windows with bars.

It was cute.

How can you not stop to take a picture with smokey. We were driving by a fire station and saw this. So we pile out of the car and snap some shots. The town folk probably thought we were crazy.

I love this picture. I think they look like they are in a magical place. Here they are trying to escape the smoke monster. ( From LOST)

This of course is big foot. With a back pack...LOL

This was one of the nature creatures we saw. It is either a salamander or a newt. It was neat to come across that. We also saw a blue lizard and a black snake with a orange stripe. And we saw a ginormous dead squirrel. Other than that we didn't see anything else.

After hiking for a while we came across this bench so we took a picture. Not one of our better pictures but what can you do.

This was early on in our hike.

This was one of our views we got to see... It was soo pretty.

This is the beginning of the hike. If you haven't noticed I uploaded the pictures backwards. Oh well. It was a nice day for a hike. We ended up hiking 5 miles. That was about all the kids could handle. Hopefully they can get used to hiking and we can do more. They were funny, about an hour into the hike they were like are we there yet. There... where is there?. It was a 14 mile hike. LOL...Soon they will enjoy it more.

Oh ya.... after getting home we picked up long john silvers for the kids and we walked in the door and for those who knows my husband he yells....can you guess it....WASH YOUR HANDS... anyways they do so and eat their dinner and then we watch a movie and then they get ready for bed and feed the dogs. They hop into bed and I'm doing my Goodnight routine when I hear ouch in the softest voice. So I ask what happened why are you saying ouch.

Jake says...Nothing

I say it's OK you can tell me

Jake starts crying and saying he doesn't want to tell me... So I get a Little nervous by his response and start laughing and trying to get him to tell me what is going on. Finally after him screaming and crying and me laughing and nervous he says he thinks he has a piece of a pine cone stuck in his butt cheek.

I just about die with laughter because now I'm super nervous. I get him to show me his butt. (man that was hard) and It is not a pine cone.....it's a TICK.

When we got home he noticed it and tried to rip it out and couldn't and didn't want to tell me because he didn't want me to pull it out. So he spent all that time in pain.(I remember seeing him squirming around while we were watching the movie) So I call Phillip in cause I couldn't stop laughing (poor kid...will be traumatized) and we pull it out and do the clean up. It's a little swollen but I think he will be OK. I'm gonna call the Dr and see what needs to be done.

I also pulled the girls out of bed and checked them out...only the one tick, thank goodness!!!!