52 hike challenge (#5)

I had such a good time hiking with Rose last weekend that I invited her along on today's hike. I really had NO expectation that she would even consider saying yes, but she did! So we packed up our supplies (tic tacs for her, cheese for Doug) and hit the road!

Here we are the the very start of our hike:

Here we are still having fun at the halfway point:

And just past the halfway point, the tides abruptly shifted- for one of the three of us. I'll give you three guesses as to who stopped having fun on this walk, and the first two don't count.

The second half of the walk was EXHAUSTING. I had to use every trick in my parenting repertoire to keep this kid going. It was pure torture. And it certainly didn't help when the kid who is terrified of cows and goats saw a cow up ahead that had escaped its pen.

We made it home eventually, some of us exhausted more mentally than physically! Now it's time for some Legos (for her) and some tea and a good book (for me) so we can each recover. Sigh.

52 hike challenge
1. 1/1/20 - 2 mi - out and back
2. 1/5/20 - 4.5 mi - neighborhood loop
3. 1/11/20 - 2 mi - out and back
4. 1/19/20 - 4.5 mi - neighborhood loop
5. 1/26/20 - 4.5 mi - neighborhood loop