Saturday, February 19, 2011

A new park

Yesterday was another warm, spring-like day. The boys and I went to a park in town that was new to us. There is no playground there, but an historical house and outbuildings, as well as several miles of well laid out trails through woods and marshes. The boys were very excited to go hiking and exploring.

There were lots of wooden bridges over water and marshes/wetlands. Here we are heading out over a very long bridge that took us over some marshland. The boys loved going over the bridges and were fascinated by the marshes. By the end of the day I finally convinced Miles that they were called marshes and not martians.

Miles did quite a bit of running through the trails:

Not Quincy:

Here we are on a dock that juts out over wetlands that are part of the local river:

We came upon these benches and the boys felt they needed to rest:

Finally time to break for a picnic lunch:

On a little island:
All in all a great morning. I didn't look at the trail maps until we came back for lunch, and it turns out we hiked about 2 miles total. No wonder they were so worn out! But they loved and can't wait to go back.

3 comments:

Michelle said...

Wow! That place looks awesome! Where is that? Would love to take my boys. I cannot believe how big your boys are!!!

Anonymous said...

Gramma M says echos the Wow - that park is super, boys you look like you had so much fun, you will have to bring Gramma & Grampa there when we visit. And Miles - what a great job you did drawing your feelings - super
Love Gramma M

KrisD said...

Yes the park was great, just good outdoors exploring. Mom, we'll have to go out when you guys come to visit next.

Michelle, maybe we can meet there sometime for a playdate, let the boys run around together.