More Outdoor Fun

 The following day we headed to Pisgah National Forest.  We started at Sliding Rock.  The kids loved it!  The water was freezing, but they didn't mind.  Even Grandma went down!

The only causality was Little Man's finger.  He sliced it open on one of his last times down the rock, so he decided to stay in the car with Joel for the waterfall afterward.

The Looking Glass Falls are beautiful, but they were even colder!  BB and Little Guy were the only two in our family willing to brave the cold.  Uncle A and E actually swam over to the falls and sat behind them.

 We finished the day with Grandma Stuetz tubing down the Cherokee Rapids.  It was a lot of fun, but the water was lower than usual, so we got stuck a lot.  They haven't had very much rain in North Carolina this summer and it shows.  Tubing was BB's favorite thing we've done so far.  He absolutely loved it.

 

There was a swimming hole and tree swings along the way as well.  Halfway down the river a herd of elk crossed directly in our path. I yelled downstream to have my kids find a shallow spot to stand up, so they didn’t run into the elk. I was trying to explain that it’s dangerous to get too close to wild animals, and my 10 year old panicked and proclaimed, “I’m too young to die!” Half the herd moved forward giving us a window to continue through, but it was a fun adventure.