Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Day 8 - Aug 5th

1. woke up
2. got dressed (another very important part of our day)
3. going to eat breakfast at 3 valley gap
4. play at the park
5. argo rides (check out Noah's Ark Resort website to see what these look like. This is another event we forgot the camera for. In short it is an amphibious ride on a "thing" that has 8 wheels and goes from trail to water. It is kind of neat)
6. Play at the park
7.Stung by a wasp (oh the poor girl. Sara got bit right behind her earlobe. Her whole ear swelled up and was red.)
8. going for lunch
9. Kay Falls (these were an amazing sight. Off the #1 highway we just pulled onto a rest area, not even a marked one, just a random dirt spot to stop. With cars zipping by, we doned our running shoes to walk for these falls we heard about from locals, WELL, we entered the unmarked path and a 2 minute walk, no kidding. Like right behind the first layer of trees where these BEAUTIFUL falls. Huge they were.
You can see the kids and Casey at the base of the falls. They were huge. The river below it was amazing. Everything sparkled with "fools gold" in my opinion. Every rock you picked up and flakes of it floated everywhere. I couldnt believe this gem is hidden without a sign to guide people here. We were sure to share our find with other campers at the campground.
10. Sky Trek, Jada's trek. Jada smacked her nose. (So the day everyone else did their courses, this little kids course for age 2 & up and no harnesses required, was still closed and close to being finished they told us. So stopped in just to check if it was open. Well it had just opened that morning. So off the girls went. Sara went along to encourage her. Jada did wonderful. Never scared of any course they had. She even started being brave and doing summersaults in the nets and stuff.



They could do this course an unlimited number of times, so the girls went threw for quite a while. They Jada got going pretty fast and slipped and slipped through some steps and banged her nose. (see below) but it didnt stop her from going again. She was an amazing tropper.
11. Truck stop supper (HUGE meals, bigger than I have ever seen before. One order could have fed Eric, Sara, Jada and I (shayne). We also met some firefighters from Ontario who where fighting the fires close by and they let us know that it was finally under control. Thank you firefighters.)
12. Bed

1 comment:

Colleen said...

Oh, I missed this post the first time through - poor sara with a wasp bite and poor jada's nose!! Those falls are absolutely amazing!!! AND wow - good for jada to go on the sky trek - what a big girl!! :o) Wow.