A family hike as a result of the government furlough

October 7, 2013 

 Daddy has been on a furlough from work the last week, so we thought we would take advantage of him being home and go out for a family hike.  It was a little chilly out in the McCloud area, so I got to wear my dinosaur jacket.  I love this little jacket.  I roar like a dinosaur when I have it on.  Here I am roaring at my sister.   

 Yep, I have my eyes on you McKenzie.  What are you up to?

 Two sweet and cute little dinosaurs all ready to go on a hike.   

 Right away we came to a bridge.  I love to run over bridges.  Mommy was able to get me to stop half way for a picture! 

 Now we are all ready to continue on our hike and hopefully see some pretty trees changing colors.   

 After a little more hiking, we came across another bridge.  This one I had to hold Daddy's hand on because it was a long way down and a lot easier to fall through.   

 I love hiking in my backpack.  Daddy and I sure had a fun hike together!

 Along the trial, we roared all the way.  We are so cute.  We even got daddy to roar with us! 

 I stopped, so that, we could see squaw creek down below.  That is where we hiked, squaw creek! It was very pretty along the creek. 

 Daddy wanted to stop for a little bit and do some fishing, so us girls, hung out by the creek while he fished.  I found a perfect log to sit on and rest up for the trip back! 

 I got to get out of the pack and crawl around for a little bit.  There were so many fun things to find! 

 Since we were sitting there and hanging out, mommy decided to play around with her camera.  I wanted a picture taken of me with my foot on the log and my stick in my hand.   

 I love to take everything in.  What is that over there.   

 I got brave and started to crawl around.  I wanted to sit on my sister's log! 

 Daddy moved down stream, which left the beach open for me to play on.  I found a bunch of great rocks. 

 One of my favorite things to do is throw rocks in the water.  I had a blast watching them splash.  I figured out that the bigger the rock, the bigger the splash! 

 We could see Daddy fishing up river from where we were.  What a beautiful fall day! 

 On the way back, I was kept motivated by looking for the bridges.  We found the first one.  Now we have to find the other one and we will be back! 

It was a beautiful fall day.  We thought we would see more trees changing colors, but the plants along the creek were changing , so it was still very pretty.

On the way out we got a nice view of Mt. Shasta!  It was great to have a fun day to spend out hiking in the woods with our family!