Monday of our spring break trip (April 4th) dawned warm, windy, and sunny. We started the day with a nice breakfast and tour of the resort, along with a sales pitch for the time shares there . . . . so we could earn our free water park tickets! We weren't going to go ($38 per person- ouch!), but with four free tickets . . . . Anyway, we actually enjoyed ourselves, and it was easy to turn down buying a time share in Virginia, even if it IS a cool resort.
We spent the afternoon at Shenandoah National Park. Although it was still pretty barren, there were some wonderful views of the GREEN valley and we enjoyed the visitor center and a hike to a nice waterfall.
The visitor Center had a window covered in lady bugs - - the kids had so much fun with them! Ick! Of course, the very first think Tyler tried to do was eat one . . . One even flew right onto Marcus' nose!
Our little hike was to Dark Hollow Falls. It's funny after being at other national parks such as Mount Rainier where the "easy" hikes are still a bit of climbing- this one seemed pretty tame despite the warnings of the park ranger that said it would be a bit of a climb back up with little kids. I guess we have a tougher family than I thought- at the same time, we did have to take several nice rest breaks by the beautiful little stream that wasn't too cold or fast to wade in (another difference from other parks we have been too).
In fact, the water was so inviting, Cynthia decided to take a little swim . . . well, not really on purpose- she slipped! Luckily it was over 80 degrees that day so we wasn't really cold, just WET.
The hike was worth it though! We had so much fun exploring the scenery and watching the wildlife (we even saw Monarch butterflies) of very early spring. The waterfall was nice too.
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Mason served his mission around there. It is amazing. Trying going again in the fall. The colors are unreal!!!
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