Sundays in my City #19 - Serenity

Some weekends are just more fun than others and despite being super busy (again) this one was fun.
Yesterday, in between the busy-ness, we were hoping to catch up with friends.  Instead of going home to wait to hear back from them, we went exploring.  We went back to a fun place that we had explored a year or so ago to see what we could find.

We were hoping to rock hop across the river to find a geocache but with all the rain of late, the river was up an the rocks were all completely submerged.  Instead we headed uphill and had some fun playing Ninja Kicks before we made it to the temple at the top of the hill and then some rock jumping on the way back to the car.

I had forgotten just how beautiful a Buddhist temple can be and I love that this Buddha is perched on top of a hill yet remains hidden from most of the world.

Peeking out over the hill

Surveying the surroundings

Serenity

Whispers

I love re-finding hidden treasures in the neighbourhood.

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Jump for Joy

Hey Nan,

We know how much you love it when we climb up somewhere really high, so we figured that we would get mum to get some photos to show you!  We found these rocks when we were out exploring yesterday and just had to climb them.  Then the only thing we could do was to jump off them, over and over again.

We had so much fun yesterday that we even found ways to jump and go crazy again today!

See Nan, we can jump from really really high places and still land safely.  We know you are probably still freaking out but some of the things we jumped from were twice our height!

Love AJ and Milla

Ninja Kicks

Ages and ages ago, we went wandering and found a really great place to explore and we were (almost) in the area again today, so we decided to go back there and see if we could find any geocaches.  There was only one cache in the area and it was the other side of the river.  We wandered down to where there was a ford so we could get to the other side.  Unfortunately, the river was slightly flooded and the rocks we would normally jump across were completely underwater.  We really couldn't get to the other side without swimming so we had to find something else to do.

Ready to Ninja Kick!

Then dad reminded me about Ninja Kicks, the giant thistles that were all dried that were along the path - they were perfect for kicking!


They flew for miles into the air.

Ouch!

It was great fun kicking the dried heads from the plants, the only problem was when you kicked too hard and slipped over - you landed in the thistles!

Have you ever played a game like ninja kicks?

Love AJ Pickle