When The Livin' Was Easy

A friend living in Payson Canyon invited us to do a hike to a waterfall with her and her two little boys earlier this summer.  It took us until the day before school started to make it happen.  But it was a great little adventure and now I'm eager to go back in the spring when the water level will be higher, and then we'll bring Ben with us.

We knew that this would be a fantastic adventure when we arrived early to meet our friends and got to sit and watch a group of cows hanging out by the parking lot.

It was a short hike that followed the path of a stream, and crossed the stream in several places.  Luke was nervous about walking on the bridges (some of which were more precarious than others) so Cat and I helped him across.  The water level was low, it being so late in the summer, so it was easy to just walk beside him and hold his hand.

It might not show up well in the pictures, but this is called the Grotto Hike because the waterfall really does come in to a quasi-cave, which is really cool.  Eliza and Luke and I hung out with our friends at the bottom of the waterfall while Cat and Jack walked around to see the top.  They were within earshot the whole time, and Cat said that Jack got a little nervous but they stayed together and took care of each other very well.

While we waited for Cat and Jack to come back from their expedition, Eliza tried a little rock climbing, with some help from our friend.

Do you see Cat and Jack, making their way back down?

We ate lunch in the car on the way home.  When we got home, Luke took a nap, Jack and Eliza played with a friend for a while, then worked on Star Wars puzzles, and I think Cat was probably practicing piano. I busily sewed up a bunch of holey or outgrown school pants into shorts.  Nothing like waiting till the last minute to get those shorts ready, huh?

And with that, our fun summer was over.