In Memory of a Saturday...

Matt loves impromptu outings so Saturday morning he packed the boys into the car and told me we were headed for Devil's Den.
After a few panic attacks from Cephas when he thought we were no longer heading for the waterfall we arrived at the park. We all climbed up the waterfall and saw an ugly Brown Snake (yep, that's what it's called) sunbathing on the rocky wall they are sitting on in the picture when we climbed down!

We all had fun skipping stones across the water, well-the boys' rocks didn't exactly 'skip'-but Matt got one to skip 10 times!

When we felt baked from standing in the hot Arkansas sun, we walked to the little Ridge Runner Cafe and ate lunch.

Matt rented a paddle boat and we saw tons of little, water-skipping minnows and even a water snake! Afterwards we drove to the bridge that Cephas wanted to go see, and we all discovered that if you are sitting in our car while it's running-with the doors locked-never unlock only your own door and shut it behind you. Our car locked us out!! A friendly park ranger broke into our (still running!) Jeep for us about 40 min. later. The boys were happy about the whole thing since they got to play on the playground while we waited for him to get there!

All in all, we had a blast, and it all worked out for good.