This is us after we survived Bear Hill. We were excited that we all made it out alive. You see we ran into a bear an actual real live bear on the trail and we lived to tell about it.
My picture isn't great because I snapped it as we quickly rushed by the bear, but you can see him between the two trees. See his little head poking up there? We had stopped to get a drink and all of a sudden Nate's eyes got real big and he said behind you to me. No joke I turn around to see a bear in a tree ten feet behind me. Wahoo! I have always wanted to see a bear in his natural habitat. But when you actually do and that bear is right there with all your little ones it is a scary situation. We all backed away to try and figure out what we should do to make it past the bear. The trail we normally take to get out of the forest was closed so our only other option was to make the three mile hike back to where we had came from. Yeah, that wasn't happening with our young, tired, and hungry crew. So we decided to say a prayer and sneak ever so quietly past the bear. I said the prayer for safety and with a lot of faith in our hearts we picked up the two littlest ones and crept past the bear. Whew. We made it safely but I tell you the rest of the hike down was nerve wrecking as we were afraid we might experience another bear encounter. I had to give the kids suckers to calm their nerves and sing church songs to calm mine.
