Jump Creek Hike

The day be fore Mothers Day we decided to go on a little hike. Both of the kids had been sick for the week before and so we were all in some need of fresh air. Matt took his scouts up to this creek for a camp out a few months ago, but the kids and I had never been there. It was a pretty little canyon.Owen is quite the little hiker and did pretty well on the trail in some of the flatter areas.

This is the waterfall at the end of the trail. It is pretty there. Both of the kids liked looking at the watter falling so far off the top of the canyon wall.

Of course we had a difficult time keeping Owen out of the water. Matt hung him over the water so he could touch it.
Matt and I both experienced a first on this hike. We saw poison ivy for the first time. Matt (the observant one) spotted it. Neither one of us were totally sure that it was for sure poison ivy so I took some pictures so we could compare them when we got home. Sure enough that is what we saw. There was tons of it all up and down the trail and we even saw some break off trails that went right through some tall poison ivy plants. I am glad that none of us touched it... especially the kids.