Triple Shock!: Christmas Branson-Hiking!

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Christmas Branson-Hiking!

Saturday morning started off with a hike at Lakeside Wilderness Hiking Trail. Surprisingly the boys were excited. Max had to carry the “hiking pack” (aka my camera bag) and they each had to find a walking stick. We walked for a while then came to a set of stairs that said 169 down and 169 up. This was after already doing well over 100 stairs. We were nervous about it because when the boys are done, they are done and we didn't want them to have meltdowns and have to climb over 300 stairs on the way back. But we decided to move forward anyway and we were so glad we did. It was absolutely beautiful and the weather was awesome! We saw a really big canyon that if it had rained would have had a waterfall and we saw a couple of caves, one which I could stand up in. When we were heading back the kids were playing a game where they were acting like we were strangers so we couldn't walk the path with them. This was an AWESOME thing because they were still in our sight in front of us, but it made them get up those stairs in records time, with NO complaints because they had to hurry so “the strangers don’t catch up”! The hike was my favorite part of the whole trip!