Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2009

"Mountain" Climbing

We have this really funny thing here called "The Wichita Mountains" the funny thing about them is that they are the tiniest "mountains" I've ever seen.

We wake up every morning and see them, we drive right past them on the way to Nicholas' school but be careful, if there is a building in the way you could totally miss them. However, they are a welcome reprieve from all the "flatness" here.

Yesterday we decided that after living here for 6 months we should go hiking at the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge and you know what? It was so much fun.

The kids had a blast climbing up rocks and sliding down them, dodging poo and cactus and finding the perfect walking stick. Nicholas asked to go back today after school he loved it so much. I'm thinking this might become a weekly thing we do since there is nothing else to do in this godforsaken place, and the coolest thing of all is that it's only 20 minutes from our house.