It started with a shortcut to the playground Raheem showed us. It was effective, but I will neither confirm or deny that we had to walk across a large pipe over water. No one slipped either way.
However, after Raheem showed us his short-cut, Shane wanted to show him ours. We doubled-back down the Rivanna trail. We almost ended up where we started, but Raheem wanted to see the river one more time. "You can probably see it from right over there," I said.
Only we didn't see the river. We found where the trail picked up again. It circles the entire city and goes on for miles and miles.
We hiked over 2.1 miles according to the map. We were on the trail half the time and then walked up the street to complete the circle.
We did take a detour. Raheem wanted to read the sign up a hill. A nearly vertical hill.
Unfortunately, when we crested the hill we found the land got more vertical behind the church. The foliage was thicker and we had to trek down the road and hill further to find our cut through.
At least the view was nice.
What you don't see in any of the pictures is me playing Sherpa. I carried my mail, a baseball, a baseball bat, and Raheem's scooter most of the way....in flip flops. I did not expect to go on a hike! I wanted to check the mail! My flip flops got wet from pulling Shane out a small stream and kept falling off. I had to run to keep up with Shane at times until we settled on Raheem as line leader. Then I had to carry them and all the other stuff in one hand up the hill and push Shane up with my other! Shane spent most of his reserves on the climb and I had to carry him piggy back up the next hill.
We all slept soundly.
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