Our Final Week with the Kids

My goodness. Summer hols are almost done; the kids have one more week before school begins. Mom is with them next week, so our stint is done. It was a long week. The weather was not good for pool time; in fact, it was so rainy for two days that we were confined indoors. It did not help that I spent one of those days plus two nights in some discomfort -- from something I ate, I suppose.

One day, we did enjoy a nice little hike on a path near the river.

A bit of the path with Danica being Danica and Grandma hobbling along as she has developed a sore hip just lately.

It is quite rocky on the south side along parts of the trail. I took this photo of Dani with JJ exploring in the background.

On the north side of the trail there are a few little footpaths down to the river.

I took one of these paths and grabbed this shot looking downriver.

On one of our stops, we encountered this Green Heron, which didn't seem to mind our company. I think it's green although I didn't see to much green in this light. I should have another go at this photo as it is a bit underexposed. Oh well.

At one point, we met a couple walking six dogs. Two were their own, and they were helping to train the four dogs in this photo as they were dogs with 'issues'. More about the jumping dog in the next photo.

He was an Austrian bird dog of some sort and was trying to catch pebbles that the kids were tossing. He put on quite a show, and I hope he didn't swallow too many pebbles. The trainers didn't seem concerned anyway.

We got as far as the overpass or under the overpass before starting back.

At a final rest stop, Sue and Dani took a moment to fan themselves down after all of the exertion.