What a beautiful day for our first hike of the year! We went to Mission Trails today and went on a short New Year's Day hike with the kids, a yearly tradition. The trails were packed with kids, their parents, grandparents, pets, and friends toting backpacks, hiking sticks, bandanas, hats, cameras or bottles of water. We were all out and enjoying the sunshine and a bit of the outdoors together yet separate. We stopped at one point since the kids were asking to "sit down and take a break" (even though we hadn't gone very far at all) and there were huge brown fallen sycamore leaves all around us. We gathered them together into piles and the kids grabbed big bunches of them throwing them into the air above us. Others in other places far from here would have done this in September, but in San Diego we do it in January. It was so fun to throw them up and then gather more to do it again and again.
The kids explored the warm sand on the ground and scaled the boulders. We spied lots of mistletoe in the trees above us (did you know that it is a parasite to the tree?) and beautiful river rocks on the ground under the crunchy leaves. Ben started to collect and the carry a bunch of rocks that he intended to take with us back home. We have plenty of rocks at home and so we let him chose a few to bring home and leave the rest there for others to enjoy. Here are some pics of our adventure today.
The kids explored the warm sand on the ground and scaled the boulders. We spied lots of mistletoe in the trees above us (did you know that it is a parasite to the tree?) and beautiful river rocks on the ground under the crunchy leaves. Ben started to collect and the carry a bunch of rocks that he intended to take with us back home. We have plenty of rocks at home and so we let him chose a few to bring home and leave the rest there for others to enjoy. Here are some pics of our adventure today.
Mistletoe
Hiking/walking
Leaves!
On the ground
Noah's turn
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