2nd Annual Memorial Day Weekend Outdoor Adventure

Kind of a long title, but it felt worth mentioning that for two years running we have gone out into nature during Memorial Day Weekend! I mean... pretty much the rest of the year we stayed safely locked within city limits, but this one weekend a year we have repeatedly gone into the great wilderness! And, don't hold me to this or anything, but I REALLY think we will be in nature even more than one weekend this summer! We... wait for it... went shopping for camping equipment this weekend!

 I KNOW.

WHO ARE WE.

But Nick's mom and step dad really want to do a family camping trip, and I'll be damned, I am actually getting kinda excited about it. I LOVED camping with my family when I was little, and the idea of having that tradition with Henry is something I am looking forward to.  So, WATCH OUT WILDERNESS.  HERE WE COME! 

(wilderness with a bathroom and running water... we aren't savages)

This post has taken a turn for the rambling.  Let's get back on track.

We went hiking this weekend!  Want to see pictures?


We went to Raven Run, which is a place I have never been, even though it is like, twenty minutes from where we live...

Sometimes I forget how pretty Kentucky is. It's like you just get used to it, and then one day you look around and are like "Wow... I actually like here. and it is gorgeous."

It was actually Andy's idea to get out into nature this weekend, so we owe him a thanks for not letting the annual tradition die on it's second year
 
I mean, if he hadn't asked us to go, we would have missed the giant rock that looks like a foot.  NOBODY should have to miss that.

But even MORE important than the foot, we would have missed a great time with each other... (awww)

Henry and Andy, just hanging out
 
Henry did amazing, and did the majority of his own walking. I would say he walked two miles of the two and a half mile hike. Which is pretty impressive!

but that did mean we spent about a half mile carrying him around like a sack of potatoes... which he found extremely enjoyable

 
but even that half mile of carrying was worth our final destination (or, I guess the half way point of the hike, since we had to head back)
 
Totally worth it
 
So.. it was nice to meet you, Raven Run. We will be back. Hopefully in less than a year.