Going To The Top

I left you yesterday just as Isabella and I were entering the nature park, so I just had to show you what we did there. This park is very different from my nature parks back in Michigan. The parks there were very flat. This one is almost all hills.

Almost all of our path consisted of walking up these stairs. There were some other things, but I'll save them for another time. As you should be able to see in the first picture, Isabella was eager to get going all the way to the top.

One thing to remember is that I was foolish enough to go all the way up these stairs with a broken foot! My foot was actually feeling a lot better that day, but it's aching a bit today. I guess I know what to blame for that. Isabella? The hill? Me!

Did those stairs look like a long stretch in the first picture? This is farther up the hill from that part! And I left out several other stretches of stairs that were inbetween these pictures, and just as many after this! This is a very big hill. These hills are the same size as what we think of the size of mountains. Mountains are made out of mostly rock, while hills are dirt. They can still be of similar sizes though.

Wow, I'm tired! Let's take a little break.

I'm currently working on a new story for Rat Tales. This one is going to be a fairy tale! That's kind of different from what I've been writing. But if you think about it, fairy tales can also be very dark, so maybe this is perfect for me. This one was inspired by a dream I had. Many of my stories come from dreams, but not all. You should pop over and take a look at y current story. It's my best one yet, very emotional. I'm telling you there will be a movie from this one some day.

Okay, I'm rested. Let's get moving back up the hill.

This took quite a while for us to get all the way up here! The view isn't very good because the Sun is just to the left of this scene, and it is drowning out all of the light from everything below. The side of the hill in front of us now is a drastic drop, but there are trees directly in front of us on the steep hillside.

In the distance we can see part of Sioux City and probably part of Nebraska. I'll bring you a much better view of everything when I can get to a different place when they reopen the roads in Stone Park.

For now Isabella and I have to make the journey all the way back down the hill. You'd think that would be easier, but that's what really made my foot begin to ache. It was foolish to do this, but I sure enjoyed it, and Isabella enjoyed it even more.


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