Wednesday, May 15, 2013

May 15, 2013

The hike that went terribly wrong!
 
So yesterday, Creag & I had it all worked out that he would take Skylar to soccer practice so I could do a class at the gym.  I've taken a few months off of classes and am finally ready to hit it again.  Bikini Season is here you know.  Anyway, Skylar's practice was from 5:30-6:30.  The same time as my class.  At 6:30 as I was leaving the gym, I looked at my phone and saw that I had missed a call from Creag & he left a voicemail.  I checked the message and he just said "call me back."  Uh oh.  I immediately thought that Skylar had gotten hurt at practice or one of the other kids were hurt.  I called him back right away and he told me that he had taken Hank, Sammie & Wyatt for a hike and was planning on being done by the time Sky was done with practice but they took a trail that he had never taken before and were not sure how long it was going to take.  They were pretty much lost in the woods & had already been hiking for an hour!  I'm not going to lie, my first reaction was being pissed off and worrying about Skylar.  Practice was now over and no one was there to get her.  She was going to be scared and not know what was going on.  I spent a few minutes trying to find her coaches phone # and then called him.  No answer.  I called again, no answer, so I left a voice mail explaining to him what was going on & that we were running late.  I then sent him a text.  No response.  I headed over to the soccer field to pick her up and talked to Creag again who said it would probably be another hour before they found their way out.  Pulling into the Soccer Field, I saw Skylar with her coaches, so I knew she was okay.  That was a big relief let me tell ya!  Her & her coaches had actually been walking around, looking for them and were a little worried.  After getting her and knowing she was okay, my worry then shifted to Creag & the kids.  Would they find their way out before dark??  A lot of things crossed my mind.  I called him again, and he said he had caught his bearings so he would be maybe 10 minutes.  Skylar & I stuck around and waited to make sure they made it out of the woods okay.  Sure enough, 10 minutes later, while we were sitting in the car waiting, I hear, "Mom"!  It was Hank yelling for me.  They had finally made it back safely!!  I hopped out of the car, and had to snap a picture of the Survivors lol.

 
Reunited & it feels so good!
 
 
 
Skylar spoke her mind to Creag of course.  She told him how worried & scared she was and he of course apologized & said he'd make it up to her.  Their hike ended up being about 3 Miles and I guess from what I've been told, the kids loved every.minute.of.it! 
 


 
Creag said he was actually scared with some of the things that they saw.  He had to carry each of the kids over streams & over big branches.  He had to put one down and ask them to stay right there while he carried another kid over, and so on.  As you can see in the picture above, there's actually caution tape around a tree.  Part of the area they were in had actually flooded recently so trees had fallen over and the ground probably wasn't safe.  He said the kids treated it as an adventure, like they were Indiana Jones or something.  It's probably a very good thing that I wasn't with them because I probably would've freaked & made it so much worse!!  So glad no one was hurt and this will probably be something that they NEVER forget.



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