C&O Canal and Great Falls

Tade doesn't have preschool of Fridays so we make an effort to do something special each Friday. Today we went with a group of friends to Great Falls. Great Falls is on the Potomac River and can be seen from both the Maryland and Virginia side of the river. We chose to view it from the Maryland side today. The walk out to the falls is beautiful. You follow the C&O canal, then cross over some bridges, then end at a look out point over the falls. The kids had such a great time running all over the place.

Me and the boys along the canal.

This is the view of the C&O Canal. The water was so still compared to the falls on the Potomac River.

Luke, Noah(running away), Seth, Dillon, Tade, and Kelsey checking out the canal.

This was Seth pretty much the whole day. He kept running and running. He's fast and unfortunately I wore flip flops.

When we finally got to the end of the trail where the falls were the kids could have cared less about the falls because there were awesome rocks to climb on.

Seth found the perfect resting spot just his size.

Dillon, Tade, Kelsey, and Seth were good enough to sit together for about two seconds so we could get a group picture with the falls in the background. Then they were off to run and climb on the rocks.

Do you think he was thirsty? Seth found little pools of water in the rocks. I caught him about half a second before he was going to drink that nasty water.

On the way back to the picnic area Kelsey and Seth took a break to play with the rocks.

While Seth played with the rocks Tade climbed on them. He was having so much fun climbing all over the place. He was fearless.

A goose climbed out of the canal and decided to join us for our picnic. We kept telling the boys to stay away from the goose because they can be mean, but they didn't care. Turns out the goose didn't give us any trouble. So the boys now have a twisted view of being able to get really close to geese while feeding them.

See. They weren't phased at all by our warnings.

Seth got so comfortable he just pulled up a spot on the ground right next to his friend, Mr. Goose.