IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

Happy Father's Day to all of the wonderful Father's I know. We had a great (albeit a rainy one), but a great Father's Day. Jeff had decided that he wanted to go hiking at Ithaca Falls for Father's Day. So we drove the 3 hours it took to get there. It rained the entire way up there and the entire time that we were hiking. So needless to say, the hike was a short one. But what a really cool place. But not that much to do and see. But we had passed a really cool park about 30 minutes before you reach Ithaca. It is called Taughannock Park. For a small fee of $7 (for parking), you gained access to a swimming area, the largest playground I've ever seen, waterfalls galore, miles of hiking trails, river walking, picnic areas, and the best darn Father's Day experience ever. Next time we will skip the Ithaca Falls and go straight to Taughannock!

Ithaca Falls:

This is the bridge that you walk over from the area where we parked.

This is the stairs leading down to the gorge. Yikes! But we walked down them.

The hard part was climbing back up 500 feet of stairs with kids.

Another view of the bridge above the gorge.

The view from the bridge.

Because of the teaming rain, we had to end our hike at Ithaca and

retreat to the car to wait for it to let up a bit. So we missed a bunch of the falls,

but thats when we decided to head back to Taughannock. Funny enough, when we

got to Taughannock, the rain let up to a drizzle.

Taughannock State Park

This is where we discovered Carter LOVES dill pickles. He walked around munching on this pickle spear for about 20 minutes!

Carter had his very own waterfall. He laughed and laughed, and he laughed

even harder when he fell down. The water was absolutely freezing, and people

were looking at us like we where NUTS to let our kids play in there.

But they were having a blast, why not...plus we had a change of clothes in the car.

"I'm the King of the WORLD!"

Daddy and his boys on the best Father's Day ever!