November catch-up: Hiking and Leaves

Before November ended, we decided to take another trip to the Shenandoah National Park before our yearly pass expired. This time we decided to go hiking since that's one of Dave's favorite hobbies. We had wonderful weather despite the fact that it was the last Sunday in November.

This time, we decided to hike the trail leading to the old Snead Farm.

Caleb hitchhiked on Daddy's shoulders for a good portion of the hike.

He jabbered along as we went, telling us about the trees, dogs,
and other things he saw along the way.

Since hiking isn't the best activity for a lady with lupus and fibromyalgia
(or one who is terrified of snakes for that matter), I'm thankful Dave now
has a buddy that enjoys exploring the outdoors as much as he does.

As soon as we got to the end of the trail, Caleb began exploring.

Dave helped him peak inside.

"Daddy, help me look in this window."

The barn was locked up so the best exploring he could do was
from the outside looking in.

He also found a cellar that Daddy was about to let him go in
and check out until fuddy duddy Mommy mentioned that the
roof didn't look too stable.

He still loves Mommy anyway. :)

Of course, we had to stop and check out a few rocks.
These two he clung to for quite awhile.

He shared the rocks with Mommy and Daddy. Later Daddy wasn't too
fond of the rocks when Caleb was riding on his shoulders with one in each
hand and kept getting hitting him in the head with them.

The best part of the trip for Caleb was the leaves in the picnic area. We don't have a lot of trees up near our house so he hadn't had the opportunity to jump in a big pile of leaves before but loved stomping solo leaves here and there throughout the fall. Having so many to dive in and waller about was absolute bliss as you can tell from his face in some of the following pictures.