Oh the Irony....
Jun. 15th, 2017 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse ....I finished Closed and Common Orbit last night!
Yesterday was a busy day. I got up early and took our car to Dave's to make sure it is road worthy for our big trip West (starts tomorrow!) I always feel so "urban" whenever i take the bus/train combo to get there and back again. The car was done around 10 am, and by the time I got up Mason was sniffing around for lunch ideas. One of the other trip tasks was vacuuming the car, so I talked him into helping me with a promise of Subway. While we were sitting at Subway, Mason looked up from the manga we were reading (we're both reading Haikyu!!) and said, "Do you want to go on an adventure?"
Adventure in our family can mean anything from a hike in the woods to a road trip to Crystal Cave. We opted to head over to Minnehaha Falls and take a walk along the paths by the creek. The falls were AMAZiNG. Of course, because this was spontaneous, I didn't have my camera. (For those of you who don't know me well, no, this does not mean I left my phone at home. It means I don't have a smart phone. My flip phone technically has a camera, but yeah, no.) The falls were super huge thanks to all the rain we've been getting. The creek had even washed away a lot of the usual paths. Everything was walkable yesterday, but we could clearly see water lines where the water had crested the trail in places. The whole creek was very fast, too. It's very rocky and rushes like a rapids. We stopped in that first little wide spot where a lot of people go swimming and Mason and I watched one kid on an inner tube have the time of his life letting the current whip him downstream. He'd hop out, splash back up, and do it again. I took off my socks and shoes to dangle my toes. The water is still very cold. It felt good on an 80 F / 26.7 C day.
We hiked all the way to the river, reliving a lot of memories of the bog walk, the cliff section, etc., along the way. Near the river we found a good spot to sit and Mason read while I watched the mighty Mississippi flow. We were visited by at least one Great Blue Heron, who flew overhead, and several coots (which I first thought were loons, but they had no spots). I waded in the water and watched the super-tiny baby fish as they inspected my toes. There were a lot of them, but they were needle-small, and none of them were brave enough yet to take a little taste of me, like the bigger ones will do.
I always think it's fun to take the flatter route back, but it never is, though a chipmunk dashed across our path at one point. Then, we stopped at Se Salt for ice-cream in the park and OMG I wanted fish fry (all the plates passing us looked SO, SO tasty.) Mason got "salted caramel," which I had a couple of bites of.
A nice day. As Mason said with a big grin on his face on the drive home, "THIS is summer vacation."
Indeed it is.
Yesterday was a busy day. I got up early and took our car to Dave's to make sure it is road worthy for our big trip West (starts tomorrow!) I always feel so "urban" whenever i take the bus/train combo to get there and back again. The car was done around 10 am, and by the time I got up Mason was sniffing around for lunch ideas. One of the other trip tasks was vacuuming the car, so I talked him into helping me with a promise of Subway. While we were sitting at Subway, Mason looked up from the manga we were reading (we're both reading Haikyu!!) and said, "Do you want to go on an adventure?"
Adventure in our family can mean anything from a hike in the woods to a road trip to Crystal Cave. We opted to head over to Minnehaha Falls and take a walk along the paths by the creek. The falls were AMAZiNG. Of course, because this was spontaneous, I didn't have my camera. (For those of you who don't know me well, no, this does not mean I left my phone at home. It means I don't have a smart phone. My flip phone technically has a camera, but yeah, no.) The falls were super huge thanks to all the rain we've been getting. The creek had even washed away a lot of the usual paths. Everything was walkable yesterday, but we could clearly see water lines where the water had crested the trail in places. The whole creek was very fast, too. It's very rocky and rushes like a rapids. We stopped in that first little wide spot where a lot of people go swimming and Mason and I watched one kid on an inner tube have the time of his life letting the current whip him downstream. He'd hop out, splash back up, and do it again. I took off my socks and shoes to dangle my toes. The water is still very cold. It felt good on an 80 F / 26.7 C day.
We hiked all the way to the river, reliving a lot of memories of the bog walk, the cliff section, etc., along the way. Near the river we found a good spot to sit and Mason read while I watched the mighty Mississippi flow. We were visited by at least one Great Blue Heron, who flew overhead, and several coots (which I first thought were loons, but they had no spots). I waded in the water and watched the super-tiny baby fish as they inspected my toes. There were a lot of them, but they were needle-small, and none of them were brave enough yet to take a little taste of me, like the bigger ones will do.
I always think it's fun to take the flatter route back, but it never is, though a chipmunk dashed across our path at one point. Then, we stopped at Se Salt for ice-cream in the park and OMG I wanted fish fry (all the plates passing us looked SO, SO tasty.) Mason got "salted caramel," which I had a couple of bites of.
A nice day. As Mason said with a big grin on his face on the drive home, "THIS is summer vacation."
Indeed it is.