Attacked!

On a cool summer day, one of the last days before school started, a couple of the kids and I decided to take a walk. The walk turned out to be quite the adventure, but with a happy ending.

We took a path, a nice narrow path. With beautiful greenery, beautiful flowers and even berries, which we weren't sure if they were poisonous, so opted NOT to eat them. We enjoyed a nice afternoon in Alaska walking in the tundra. The path eventually lead us out onto a more popular trail. Once we reached that trail, we turned around and started heading out. As I looked on the ground, there was fresh bear scat, or poop as others might call it. So, we were glad to turn around and go back the way we came...just in case. Bad deal number one.

Along the trail home we continued to enjoy the scenery and were able to avoid tripping over many tree roots on the ground. We came up to a place that had some sort of bug flying about in the area, in a little hole. Much to our surprise it was a swarm of hornets. Hornets that were NOT happy! So, I scream to myself and my children,"RUN!!!!" and we did! I got stung twice and one of the kids got a sting on her head. Bad deal number two.

So, after traumatizing my poor children, we made a run for our prowler (four wheeler thing). I was told by my children to drive fast! As we drove we started to finally feel relieved when suddenly out popped another hornet from who knows where! Screaming and yelling and some more tears later it thankfully flew out as soon as I stopped and opened the door. Bad deal number three.

After many tears, lots of screaming, and a few stings, we were safely home. We put in a movie ate some icecream, drank some rootbeer and enjoyed the comfort of our home INSIDE. All in all a good deal in the end. And to think, I was worried about bears!!

The berries we chose not to eat.

Standing by the "forbidden" berries. (They are probably just cranberries, but better safe than sorry)

The trail on the way up, when we were happy!

The narrow trail. Hornets here we come!