Visit to Letchworth

Those of us who couldn't be at Katie's wedding are trying to console ourselves with the beauty of nature. 

So we went on a hike this afternoon at Letchworth State Park, which a USA Today survey ranked as the #1 state park in the US. 

It really *is* nice. And quite big.

Oh, and there was an ulterior motive for me.  The boys have been sleeping terribly. Sam's been up til midnight with insomnia each night and Josh was up at 6:45 two mornings ago and 6:30 this morning. And when he's up, he's UP.

So I was hoping to wear them out. That certainly happened. 

We went with Sam's friend Ian and his mom, and hiked the Portage Trail, which has been around as long as people needed to portage canoes around the southern-most of the three falls. This took us to the Footbridge Trail, which has been around since they put that stone footbridge there. 

The hike was rife with precipices. For some reason I spent more time imagining Sam's friend Ian deliberately pushing Sam over the edge, rather than Josh slipping and falling. Not sure what that means. 

At the trail head

One of those precipices. Wow, it was a long way down. They call this the "Grand Canyon of the East" for  reason.

Ian: "Dude, this rock looks like a CHAIR!"

The boys were taken with the odd shape of this tree trunk

Near the bottom, approaching the footbridge

View downstream from the bridge

For some reason today the place was packed with Indian tourists

The falls!

And we.