Summer Checklist

Hike to Elephant Rock...CHECK!

We're lucky to live about 2 miles from Mueller Park Canyon. We have started the hike to elephant rock a few times, but never actually made it...UNTIL NOW! The kids were troopers. I think we were out about 4 hours. Carly and Logan led the way, and Chase struggled as the caboose. He fell a few times, and we helped him up, cleaned his wounds, gave him a little encouragement. But after about FIFTEEN falls, we'd had it! We wondered how he could possibly trip over every little thing (rock, plant, root, pebble, blade of grass, air....) He likes to expend the least amount of energy at everything he does, so even picking up his feet becomes something of a task - we love Chase...we really, really do! He was all bloodied up and MORE than ready to go home, never to return again. I see bribary in our future...