September 17, Part II

Part I here.

 

So we all jumped in the car and headed to destination numero dos: Seneca Rocks.

 

If you have never been to this Park, I highly recommend it~ there are lovely picnic areas, a nice visitor center, a little historic blue house, and a hike that is challenging but not incredibly long (you feel like you got a good workout afterwards, but it doesn't take 6 hours to complete!).

 

So~~ Picnic Time for us! Pat packed some delicious wraps and other goodies, including one of my favorite libations: hard cider of the Angry Orchard variety. Delish!

 

We deployed the boring plastic cup trick.





 

 

Pat even brought three napkins, each a different color so that we could distinguish between the three of them.

 

Kateri was absolutely thrilled to sit like a big girl at the picnic table. She sat for a while, but soon her excitement grew to such heights that she could not possibly sit still and had to run around and collect whatever odds and ends she could find.

 



After we ate, it was hiking time!! I absolutely LOVE this hike. It is UP all the first half and so the second half goes so much quicker . . .

You can just barely see the lookout that the hike leads to~ it is that dark ledge on the left peak near the edge of the photo.

We opted to bring the stroller for K-bear, but after pushing that stroller up the bridge so Pat could take a pic (photo above) I think it would be 5,761 times easier to carrier her in a child-carrier (maybe a slight exaggeration!).

Pat pushed K-bear the rest of the way . . .

Or carried her . . . And the stroller . . .

Not a small flight of stairs . . .

There were a few other stair sections . . .

And quite a lot of steep hills . . .

And Pat would go sprinting up all those steep hills.

Which was quite the workout!

And, when you finally get to the top, the view does not disappoint!

This picture does not even do it justice, but does give an idea!

And then Pat had another surprise!

He proposed AGAIN!

:-)

So I said,

"Let me get back to you on that . . . maybe tomorrow?"

jk

And he had a beautiful necklace for me and another one for Kateri!

Such a fun surprise.

Of course, Kateri pulled her hair-tie out at some point on the way up, and quickly tossed it aside in the underbrush.

Sebastian clearly let us know that he was ready to keep moving and had no interest in lingering to drink in the beautiful valley below, so we headed back down the trail fairly quickly.

Once we got to the bottom, Kateri really wanted to hold Sebastian.

She won't be able to do this for long. I have a feeling he will be catching up (and maybe surpassing!) her soon!


Sebastian with his papa-bear.

And so concluded the second portion of our Day! And on to our next destination . . .