Since Erin and Jason have a pool in their backyard and are right next to the ocean, we wanted to come up with something cool to do with them. Especially since this was their first trip visiting us in the summer. We decided to take them on a ferry and then go for a short, easy, kid-friendly, hike in the mountains. It was one of those ideas that sounded perfect and then there was the reality. In my head it went like this: Get up, grab a quick breakfast, hop on the ferry, drive an hour and a half to the mountains, go for a short hike, enjoy the view and then back on the road again, maybe home in time to eat dinner at our house. Reality went something like this: Wrangle the kids to eat breakfast and get dressed, realize first ferry time has come and gone, shoot for the next ferry, cross our fingers and make it on as the 3rd to last car, stop for bathroom breaks, have a screaming baby in the car, stop at store to buy shoes and long sleeve shirts that were forgotten, stop for lunch, have several timeouts during lunch, get back in car, head to mountains, have screaming baby in car, finally make it to trails by 3:30, spend a few hours on the trail and at the park, stop for dinner, back in car with screaming baby, wait for ferry, make it on 9:10 ferry, home by 10:00, kids are crabby, parents are crabby. One. Very. Long. Day.
So, maybe it was too much to tackle for one day. At least the views were amazing and the kids were wonderful while we were on the hike. We saw deer, a marmut, snow and of course the amazing scenery. I'm sure soon I'll think it was worth it, but right now the sound of Cameron screaming is still ringing in my ears.
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