Some weeks ago we had taken the kids for a hike at Joshua Tree National Park, a little more than a 2 hour drive away from where we live. The kids and I are not much for deserts, but this high desert turned out to be, as Alex and Zach said, their best hike ever! I think it's mainly because they thought they were not hiking, but rock climbing. The park was filled with piles of giant boulders and rocks. For kids who bring rocks home most of the time, Alex and Zach were in rock heaven. The park is also full of Joshua Trees that look like creepy creatures at night.
Zach did have some serious concerns at first. He asked if the boulders are "attached to the ground." This one rock at the top does look like it's going to go tumbling down any minute.
But then again, all of the formations looked like that.
Our hike took us up, down, over and through boulders. The kids were convinced that they were rock climbing. Even if technically we weren't, literally we were! So, I just let them have fun thinking so anyway! :-)
My silly kids wanted me to take pictures of them pretending to be in the middle of a serious climb...
.. or lifting a big one,
... or this one is supposed to be an unsuspecting Zach about to be crushed by that loose boulder hanging at the top. His idea.
There was a beautiful view at the end of the hike.
That is the San Andreas fault line (diagonal line in the middle of the picture).
We came home at dusk just when it starts to look eerie!
I learned that hiking is so much fun and walking uphill isn't a problem for the kids, as long as rocks are involved.
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