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This week Vi and I had the chance to go up Smithfield Canyon for a little walk with Teresa and her darling little girl Nova. I hadn't seen Teresa in years (since high school) and it was nice to get together while she was in town and have the kids wear themselves out and get some fresh air. It was rainy, windy, and Violet's favorite :MUDDY! Her rainbow shoes are still drying out from the adventure of being totally soaked via muddy puddle jumping. They threw rocks in the river, built a "spaceship", sat on stumps, checked out a cold bumble bee clinging to a dandelion, saw some spider houses, a very large black and red ant and a potato bug! There was a rainbow rock to jump off of, logs to balance on, tall grass to get lost in, and lots of sprinting up and down the road by Violet.
I forgot how beautiful this canyon is, it made me nostalgic for the days when I would bike up there every single day during the summers and the glorious ride down with no hands and wind whipping through my hair, the campfires with high school friends, snowshoeing, oh and the couple of times last year Cristian and I jogged the trail from the first gate to the second (if you keep going past it leads to Tony's Grove) in our attempt to train for a mud run later on towards that fall.
Gorgeous canyon, muddy fun, good company, and an afternoon well spent in my book.
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