Steamboat Day #4

As we watched the weather we decided we should go on a hike before it started to rain today.  So mid morning we headed into the middle of town and found the Fish Creek Falls trail head.  It was a great little hike.

This is all of us heading from the lower parking lot to the trail head.  Check out Rachel's walking stick.  Yep extremely bigger than she is.  We even cut it off a little bit for her.

Running to catch up to me as I was trying to take a picture of everyone walking.

Rachel sitting before we even hit the trail.  She wanted to sit in the shade.

Yep we got her going again.  

 We got to hold hands a little bit of the way.  This helped to keep her going. 

This is the view from the outlook point that we walked to.  It was paved all the way so it was a great little hike.

Rachel didn't want to have any more pictures taken.  So this is the best family picture we got up there.

Grandma & Grandpa with the waterfall in the background.

So after going to the top lookout point we decided we would take the fork in the road and go down to the bottom of the waterfall to see the water up close.  

The trail was a little bit more rugged.  Rachel was a trooper even though the way back up we had to practically pull her up the trail.

We are this close to the river at the bottom of the falls.  This is actually a bridge that goes over the water.  There is a 3 mile hike from this bridge to the top of the falls but we were told it went up 5000 feet in that 3 miles so we didn't even attempt it. 

We of course tried new restaurants for every time we headed out for meals.  After lunch we went back to the timeshares to swim.  I took Rachel out and we went swimming.  It was fun.  We were relaxing at the timeshares when it started to rain.  Rachel loves water no matter what form so of course there was playing in the rain.

 It was coming down so hard.  We were glad we had gone on the hike before this storm came in.

 Grandma and Rachel dancing in the rain.

Dancing in the rain.

 Yes she is soaking wet but she was so happy.

 http://youtu.be/n_Y7VV8T_Cc

The above link will show you just how we all got so wet.

This is how she got so wet there was water dripping off the roof like a shower and so we all had to put our heads in it because it was "fun" for a 4 year old.  She sure makes you become a kid again which is good for the soul.