Almost did them in

I tried to kill the kids today!

At least that is what they are telling me. All I did was take them to http://www.stratfordhall.org/. We had a really nice tour of the house. Then we took a ride to this place that over looked the water and went for a little walk in the woods. Round trip the total walk was only like .6 of a mile. The part that killed them was the return walk to the truck........all up hill.

Hey, I told them when we were walking down that hill that we could drive there. Did they listen? NO! They thought the Potomac River just looked so cool they wanted to keep going. When the hill started to go straight down and you had to hold on to these nice little ropes to keep from falling down they should have been concerned about walking back up the hill. Again I gave the the option to turn around and we could drive.

Guess what they wanted to do?

So we pressed on all the way to the bottom of the cliffs to the river, toured around the Gris Mill and the pond then started the walk back to the car. Again .6 of a mile, all up hill you have never heard such whining in your life. We finally make it to the car after many threats of death. The Terrorist tried to sit down several times, which by the way I should mention we were walking in the road at this point. He has a habit of doing this, last summer in Philly he would sit down at every street light and yell of a taxi. Needless to say I am not impressed with this. There were no taxis for him to hail today so I do not know what he was going to do after he sat.

We get back to the car I give them water and they cool off then they both inform me that they want to take there next hike in the mountains. UMMM........... .6 of a mile up hill in Westmoreland County Virginia they could barley do, but they want to go to a mountain and walk up it. I think not! At least not any time soon.

I told them we would do some more local trails and see how we handled that first before we made any big trips to go hiking for real. We have lots of work ahead of us if this is going to be one of our new hobbies. I do not want to discourage it, cuz hey it's exercise, better than them sitting on their butts playing that damn DS all day and its cheap. I am all for cheap.

Plus I get to take pictures while we play. Sounds like a good deal to me. So tomorrow depending on the weather we are going to go for another walk in the woods. Hopefully they will survive. Cross your fingers. The Princess meets with her trainer tomorrow afternoon so we will see if it is to much for her. Tonight she was in bed asleep at 6 p.m. .

I am loving it!!

13 more days!!!