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Here are a couple more pictures of our trip.  It was so fun!  The hardest part was driving home afterwards...  Jer also posted some on his blog, including a video of a jealous dog.  Pretty funny.

Among the things we learned on the trip though... Your car battery can cause all sorts of problems... we had to have the hotel owner jump our car twice and Jim cleaned the terminals for us... and eventually we just had to have Jer, Jim and LeVenard put a new battery in before we left for home.  Jer LOVED working with them.  LeVenard kept throwing tools out at them from behind his truck and making funny comments.  Another is that Ada talks in her sleep.  One night she talked about hiking with Daddy, the next it was about swimming, and my absolute favorite was that she kept mumbling and finally said, "That's funny!  Haha!"  Another thing I learned is that even though my swimsuit still fits me at 9 month pregnant, it tends to pretend that it doesn't.  We also learned that Sammy has a hard time changing night time surroundings... he's fine going places during the day, but it takes him at least the first night to adjust to being in a different place... then he's fine after that.

While Ada and Jer climbed around down there in the bottom of all these rocks I took Sammy on a short little hike from the parking lot to the overlook as many times as he wanted... he was in heaven.  He found sticks, ants, rocks, birds, etc... Then he kept going from one side of the over look to the other saying, "Daddy's not there... (then running to the other side) Not there."

Ada was so excited!  She ran most of the way... it made me nervous so I made her hold my hand by the parts that were near the edge, but she had a blast.

Ada and Jer went down into one of the loops that I didn't think I could get out of... She was more than happy to go and kept telling everyone around her, "Guess what!  We're hiking!"

This is one of my favorites of the ones that he took.

My favorite part of seeing them come back from their hike was that Ada saw me way up the trail and the first thing that she yells is, "Mom!  We saw mud!"  Jer says that we came a long way to see some mud... He loved the loop they went on and said that it's absolutely amazing. 

This sad face was because the end of the trail said that it was closed and she wanted to keep hiking with Daddy...

She cheered up though, and she kept calling this the funny tree because it was just a trunk in the middle of the trail.

I thought this one was awesome... it looks like a couple of old men sitting around and talking to each other.