what would have been an insignificant stroll along a path...

...now with children can become quite the adventure... My friend Liz came up for a visit the other day with her two little ones. We went for a long walk in the afternoon. In an effort to avoid pushing the stroller up a monumental hill we took a shortcut on a little path along the river. This ended up being quite a work-out in itself as we (and the babies we each had strapped to us, the stroller that had a diaper bag dangling from it, and Elijah the adventuresome two-year-old) crossed two slippery wooden bridges, an eroded steep hill, and a huge fallen tree in our path. Liz sent me some shots of the stroller in mid air as we got over the tree. Elijah is sitting on the rock looking worried. When the stroller got lifted and then stuck he started to tell us it was scary- and we assured him "No, no, Elijah, this isn't scary, it is funny!"