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It was a great day for getting outdoors. The temperature was 73°F with a few clouds. I hiked in the Bear Creek Regional Park, which is filled with trails suitable to bikes, horses, and people. The creek itself is tiny. It feeds into Fountain Creek, which runs by America the Beautiful Park.
The hike was about 7.5 miles and a little less than two hours of total time.
I snapped a few photos along the hike, but the GPS unit’s camera is not too good with the lighting.
I had a great walk on part of Pikes Peak Greenway starting from American the Beautiful Park. The weather is just amazing today with 72°F and light breeze.
I walked past all sorts of parks and recreation facilities. The trail was full of lots of other people enjoying the day, too. I will have to do this again, but in the opposite direction. Overall, I went 6.5 miles.
Karen arrived for a family get together and a chance to use her metal detector. We met at Willis Chapel.
Everyone had a great time.
We even stopped at the gate to Karen’s grandparent’s old homestead. It a 200 acre area that the family calls Old Mountain. Karen’s brother decide to ride on to look at it closer. It was getting late so we had to head on home.
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Katie Beth is having a blast today and the excitement has not stopped.
We are having dinner at Mellow Mushroom and Gabrielle is here doing Face Painting. Gabrielle is wonderful. She is painting bracelets on Katie Beth.
Here are the results, which I think are nice. They are a big improvement over the traditional face painting.
Hopefully, Katie Beth will not rub it off during the night. She likes to see things, but she doesn’t like having stuff on her. But, dirt is fine from what I can tell.
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It’s an awesome day to be out in the treehouse. The weather is just super with the temperature at 77°F.
Hot salsa from Bandito Burrito is just perfect.
Katie Beth found her first four leaf clover of the season.
The weather is just wonderful today so Karen and Katie Beth went to a park to play after school let out early today.
Katie Beth had a blast bowling with her Aunt Hope, Charlie, and Hannah while her Aunt Faith tried hard to take photos of everything.
Hopefully, we didn’t over do it. Nothing like the annual bowling event to kill your arm!
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We came out for the Easter egg hunt today at the Huntsville Botanical Garden. Katie Beth had a blast with the five and six your old children hunt. She got two golden eggs.
We stopped for a big game of croquet.
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The feeling of Spring in the weather has finally arrived. Last week in the Smoky Mountains, we felt like it was still Winter.
The highs this weekend are going to be in the 60s.
I’m looking forward to firing up the grill or the smoker.
We hiked a new trail for us today. We have hiked Middle Prong Trail, which has a set of beautiful water falls, but we want to do something new.
This trail was an old railroad bed included old bridge foundations. Katie Beth enjoyed cross Long Branch and maybe even falling in on the return route. We had to turn back, because the recent rain had raised the level of the creek too much to cross.