A Hike?

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Today was Sarah's birthday, and so at long last she thought it'd be a grand idea to go to the ill-named Moscow mountain (*cough* don't make mountains out of molehills *cough* ahem lol). So I drove over to her house at the appointed time to join the expedition. Caleb wasn't coming since for some reason no phone-calls would reach him, but Sarah, Brooke, Anna, her sister Katie (who just got into town) and Ransom and Jessica and all their kids were coming. And Jex too. Can't leave your dog behind! Ransom, Jessica and co. took off in the suburban and the rest of us piled into my truck, but first they all wanted to stop by Starbucks on the way, since you get a free drink if it's your birthday. Doing so, the other vehicle went on its merry way with plans to be joined by us after a short delay. Once in the drive-thru for S-bucks, I had the chance to fix a problem: that mainly being the fact that the seats were full of people and there was an extra dog in the mix causing confusion, mayhem, and stepping all over everybody and getting white fur everywhere. I opened my door and scooped her up and put her in the bed of the truck where she could ride without getting in the way. I think this is the first time she's ridden back there all alone, and I was hoping she wouldn't jump out while we were in the drive-thru or fall out on the drive up there. She was a good girl though and didn't jump out at all, assuming that I'd placed her there for a reason and that I wanted her to stay until I told her it was ok to get out. After we got all the coffees, we drove out of town and hit the gravel roads heading toward the designated meeting area. Funnily enough, they weren't there upon our arrival. After a few attempts to contact them, we finally did so and found that they, having never been here before, had taken a different route and were on the other side of the mountain. So as it was our party was bifurcated and we resolved to have fun severally by ourselves. So we took off down this track, now that, raced in to the woods to avoid being seen by the truck that was coming (not that we were doing anything wrong, but more because it's fun to hide from people and not ever let them see you.) and just generally goofing off having fun. We ran into the metal gate that bars the track up to the top and Brooke decided it'd be a great idea to plank on it. So we did. Eventually though we went back to the truck to leave. This time Anna, Katie and Jex rode in the back, leaving the three of us to the cab. On the fun drive back down, I flipped the radio on and sang along as boisterously as possible, and then we thought of other songs that the three of us knew and sang those as loud as we could too. It was grand fun.