snapshots of life lately . . .

a few photos of . . . a pretty wall mural that we found while walking around the town of honesdale, a gorgeous sunset on our drive home from honesdale, a humongous flag on the side of the road for the 4th of july, a screw in our truck tire just days after getting the new truck, making funny faces in an attempt to distract leko from yelling while ryan was sleeping (didn't work), finding leko's plastic balls in all different food and water bowls around the house, and lugging out the sewing machine for the first time in a long time to work on some projects.

love, laurie

dinner with a view

we worked up an appetite after all of that hiking on sunday.  on our way home, we stopped at penn's peak for a quick bite for dinner.  we had some yummy sandwiches with an amazing view!

love, laurie

hawk falls

after we hiked the "shades of death" trail with my parents at hickory run state park on sunday, we then hiked a much shorter trail called "hawk falls."  it lead to a waterfall which was really pretty, but super crowded with swimmers since it was such a hot day (mind you, the signs did say "no swimming" but no one seemed to be paying attention to the signs).

we only stayed for a little bit since there were so many people there.

love, laurie

a little video from our hike

we had such a nice time hiking the trail along the waterfalls at hickory run state park on sunday with my parents.  here's a little video from our hike.

love, laurie

hiking hickory run state park

we had such a great time hiking the waterfalls at rickett's glen state park last weekend, so we thought we'd try another state park this weekend.

on sunday, we met up with my parents at hickory run state park to hike the waterfall trail.  the trail was named "shades of death" which sounds so ominous.  i have no idea why they named it that because it was absolutely beautiful!

we enjoyed hiking under the canopy of trees along the water.  it was so peaceful to see the babbling stream alongside the trail.  we were pleasantly surprised to find that there were several small waterfalls along the trail and one huge waterfall.  it was such a great getaway!

love, laurie

silly kitten

it got quiet the other day (which is suspicious in our house because leko is always talking so much) so ryan went to investigate.  he found leko in the kitchen sitting so funny on the kitchen towel next to the sink.  what a cutie!

have a great weekend!

love, laurie

a stop at hillside dairy farm

after our day hiking at rickett's glen state park, we passed right through hillside dairy farm on our drive home.  we decided to stop at the farm to stretch our legs and check it out.  it was an adorable historic, non-profit, 412-acre educational dairy farm.

we were able to wonder around the farm and stop at the shop for some homemade ice cream.  we shared coconut ice cream and peanut butter brownie ice cream which were both delicious!

i look forward to going back to the farm another time.  here are a few snapshots . . .

love, laurie

hiking the waterfalls at rickett's glen state park

we had the day off on sunday and we were looking for a fun outing, so we drove out to rickett's glen state park to hike the waterfalls.  i had never been there before, and ryan hadn't been there since he was in boy scouts, so we were excited to check it out.

we loaded up the truck and packed a lunch.  it was such a pretty drive out to the state park.  when we arrived, we found a shaded area to set up our camp chairs and eat our picnic lunch.  (thanks, mom, for sending us home with leftovers from our 4th of july picnic.  it made the perfect lunch!)

after lunch, we hiked the waterfalls for over 3 hours.  we sure put a lot of miles on our hiking boots!  going into this, i guess i envisioned a leisurely trail alongside waterfalls.  i had no idea that we would literally be hiking up and down the sides of the falls.  the trail started off easy and then got nuts.  it was crazy and quite the workout!

the scenery was absolutely beautiful.  i kept saying that it was so pretty that it actually looked fake, like we were walking through a movie set or something.

here are some pictures from our adventure . . .

love, laurie