Watkins Glen

The other day we decided to drive to Watkins Glen, which is a town not too far away. So we put on our hiking clothes and headed out.



It was just gorgeous there. We hiked through a gorge right next to many little waterfalls, and a little creek running through it. This is why you come out to visit central New York.

The kids love taking pictures (most of the time), and Madeline, of course, loves to pose for all of them. I don't know what she is doing here....:)

Our gluteus maximus' got a workout climbing the hundreds of stairs up and down the gorge.:) (That's a good thing, trust me.:)

Notice the little waterfall to the left of them?

Yep, Madeline wanted her hair wet from it, so daddy "kindly offered" to help her with that.

I think Dylan thinks this is how we pose for pictures from now on. He kept doing this and wanting me to take his picture.

We loved the spiderweb we saw, but I think the kids would have reacted differently if the spider had still been there on it...!

Mr. Independent didn't want anyone holding his hand going down the stairs, as you can see from the way he is holding his arms. This little guy is growing up too fast. No longer my baby boy..:(:( I also don't think he passed up a single mud puddle, be it little or big, to jump in. At one point, we had a tight squeeze walking by some other people, when he decides to jump into a particularly big one, getting all of us wet with mud. Luckily everyone just laughed, but needless to say I carried him over the mud puddles the next time we were by other people.:)

We loved hiking through here and hope to go again maybe when the leaves are all different colors this fall! Can't wait, I can feel it in the air already!:)