More Hiking & Pool Time!

With the temps hitting 110°F+ regularly, we have been spending a lot more time poolside with Rohan. He has so much energy, it's impossible to keep him confined indoors. The pool definitely does the trick! He is always sacked out on pool nights. He's having a lot more fun running and jumping into the pool (after he saw me do it), so now we spend 10-15 min just doing that! He's trying to swim a lot more as well, mostly flailing now, but he tried hard, so that's whats important. He also likes going underwater too...or maybe he just tolerates us dunking him...:)
Last weekend we headed North to an area called Fossil Springs Wilderness, which is just between Camp Verde, AZ and Strawberry, AZ, on a very slow travelling forest road. It took almost an hour on the rough road, but it was worth it! We stopped at the bridge (where a lot of people stop) since it's shallow and the water is amazingly clear just out of the mountain! Rohan had a blast in the water, especially watching the fish! The water is really unique and drops off from 4' to about 25' just after some rapids, so that was cool to swim around in. We don't have many pics, because we weren't sure if we should bring the camera. You'll just have to come visit and we'll take you out there...:)
We had planned on camping and meeting up with some friends at a trail nearby, but because of the massive fires raging in AZ, they've shut down a lot of the forest roads and restricted a lot of the camping we usually do...:( We drove around for almost 3 hours trying to find an isolated spot, but everything was packed. Not to say there wasn't spots, but camping immediately close to drunken hillbillies on quads didn't sound like fun. We found one site that we got Rohan and the dogs out at and let everyone stretch their legs and run around. Turns out the reason the site was vacant was because it was overrun with huge black ants...not really an appealing site for Rohan and the dogs. I did manage to take lots of any pictures though...:)
We ended up grabbing a bit to eat in Payson and heading back to PHX and spent the rest of the weekend climbing. We'll get back up to that trail in a while when Mara has another weekend off.
Other than that, we've been adjusting to Mara's schedule, and meeting up with other residents at a DBacks game and an ICU physician's house for an awesome cookout. All good ways to stay cool!
Hope the weather back home is warming up! Sounds like it's been cool and rainy there!


Running & Jumping Into The Pool:


Running & Jumping Into The Pool With Dad:


Rohan Reading (we were standing under the A/C vent...so it's a little noisy):


Rohan Discovers The CD At The Back of His Book:


Here is some video from Rohan's 0.33mi run last week. It was shot on my phone (decent quality, low frame rate), choppy (sounds gets off a few seconds at the end) and shot at night (phone has weak light sensor), so it's sub-par, but still pretty cool to see him powering through and having fun...:)