Woodland Antics

I was fortunate to join these two cuties on an hour horseback ride in the foothills of El Yunque National forest in Puerto Rico. TT Clayton seemed too little to ride a horse all by himself... but he was all business and did a great job! Having had riding lessons in the past, Fiona was the most experienced of our group. I think she was so happy to be back in the saddle again. It was just the 3 of us and another young girl on the tour. Clay rode Pancho. Just like Clayton, Pancho liked to be the leader of the pack. Fi rode Rambo and I rode Bayo. Our horses were a little lazy.  Ha! El Yunque is the only tropical rain forest in the national forest system. As the only adult on the trip I was able to chat up our guide and learned a lot about the forest and it's inhabitants.    Reed Moe wasn't interested in the ride but he sure loved up on the horses. He's such a sweet soul. (Day 14 of 27)

       Hi this is Fiona, my favorite part is our trip so far is when we visited Moon River, hope you enjoy! :)                                                          Swimming with Dolphins                                                                    Mud fight!                                                                                                             ...

Hi, this is Reed. One of my favorite days so far on our big adventure was going to Miami and going to the Everglades. Getting close and personal with Mr. Alli! Learning about alligators to get my ranger badge. We were walking down a trail when all of sudden we saw an alligator come out of the water. I think he wanted to get a tan. This is a picture of me and Fiona getting sworn in as rangers.  We worked hard and it was an absolute honor. Here's a couple pictures of Clayton in the visitors center.  If you measure from the eyes to the nose of an alligator skull, say 9 inches. You then change inches to feet then you know the alligator was 9 feet long. cool huh? Fiona and I working on our ranger badges. Clay working with dad on his deputy Jr. ranger badge.  Getting sworn in. We are having an amazing summer, I hope you are too. (Day 6 of 27)