Muir Woods

We spent the last day of our trip at Muir Woods and the boys were in heaven.

Jay was absolutely fascinated by the river.

And both boys were happy to be able to run and climb on everything in sight.

Leo thought it was so cool that he could get inside the trees.

He was quite put out whenever the cracked trees were off the trail.

And he loved pointing out all the trees that had been on fire.

Jay rode on Ty's shoulders for most of the two mile hike.

We probably should have picked a shorter trail.

Both boys were pretty cranky by the end.

Even though we stopped to rest a bunch of times,

it was a bit much for them.

At the very end Jay was beyond done. 

He didn't want to walk and he refused to be carried.

We left him on the floor and started to walk away saying things like,

"Well, it was nice having you in our family."

And, "Hopefully someone nice picks you up."

Leo said, "I think I'm going to go back and get Jay to come. Then we won't have to leave him behind."

And it worked.

Jay followed Leo to where we were and allowed Ty to carry him the rest of the way out.

When we were almost to the car Leo said,

"Let's not ever come here again. Okay, mom?"