Our Saddlerock Hike

We had such a fun time on Sunday, October 5th. Mommy decided that we needed to go on a hike, and while we were at it we would search for a few letterboxes we knew were hidden around Saddlerock. First we hiked up the trail by the WRAC (or "Mommy's Gym" as some of you know it); we not only found the first letterbox, we ran into one of my friends from St. Joseph's Pre-K (Maya-Papaya). It was so much fun! Kailie, Maya, and I ran up the trail and beat all the slow parents to the water tower. Maya's daddy had M&M's for us to snack on, and that made me really happy. We all decided that we were going to head back down the trail, because we thought we were too tired to hike all the way up to Saddlerock. Well, we made it down to our car, and ate some more snacks and drank some water. Then we drove around to the other side of that hill (Appleatchee), because Mommy said there was another letterbox over there. So we hiked, followed the map, hiked some more, found the letterbox, sat and rested, got up, hiked some more, and I told Mommy that I was pretty pooped. I don't know how she did it, but Mommy convinced us that we really didn't have that far to go, and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to see Saddlerock up close, could we?! I really wanted to go home, but I could tell Mommy was kinda excited to keep walkin' up that big, steep hill. Then, it was so cool, we met a friend of our mom's coming down the trail... she was with another friend, and they were on horses! (I thought Kailie was gonna pee her pants!) Well, we got to get on those guys... and ride up the steepest part of the hill. It was great! Finally, after a lot more hiking (and not on the horses) we made it up to the very tip-top. We looked through our binoculars and called Nanny and Poppa to see if they could see us through their binoculars at their house. It was lots of fun! What a great day!