One of my main kid/school goals for this winter is to be outside together (no matter the weather!) at least an hour a day and to take a family hike on Wednesday afternoons. I made an exception the day it was 3 out and windy, because I'm just not that hardcore. We did have to do some work for the chickens that day though, so that kind of counts. When we worked in Orlando we had much more of a car trek before we could start our actually trek, now we feel lucky to have several great hiking spots very close to us.
Lucy pretty much hates hiking. She cries and whines before we leave, when we first get out of the car, and when we are on our way back in the second half of the hike. Its a fine line to walk between pushing her a little further and also knowing that we may have to drag her back the rest of the way. She does like about half of the hike though, especially if water and sticks are involved.
This spot is a popular place to hike and the paths quickly get tramped down and icy. We've got lots of Yak Trax to go around, and Lucy's boots are finally big enough to hold on a pair.
In a first for Lu, she made it back with much fussing. She started whining and teased her about setting a new record and making it back to the car before she started crying. She actually laughed, stopped and DID make it back to the car, where she promptly fell asleep.
