The mountains this morning were drowning in fog, and it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
We walked by part of the the Appalachian trail, which was where we snagged the pictures.
As we were walking along, the only thing going through my head was the Song of Healing from the Legend of Zelda series. Over and over, I was humming it to myself, and with every step I took, the more and more the song seemed to fit. I could hear the sounds of the forest, with the creaking of the trees, the wisps of the wind. Even the fog made a sound, but there are no words that I could describe it with.
My sense of adventure awoke in me for a moment. I waned to scale the mountainside, the only thing stopping me was knowing that if I did try, I wouldn't come back.
Part of the tradition of the area is for people to take their old, worn out hiking shoes and once they obtain new ones from the store next to the trail, they did this with them:
Honestly. . . I've got noting. . .
Making our way back to the little town, we made a slight detour to a magnificent waterfall. The scenery was incredible.
A small creek.
This was the only point the sun came out. I hadn't seen the sun since Wednesday while I was above the clouds in an airplane.
A preview of the waterfall
Another small branch of the creek
The pools at the base of the waterfall
Let me say this now, I DO NOT LIKE BIG WATER. I AM TERRIFIED OF BIG WATER. I DO NOT LIKE OCEANS, LAKES, RIVERS, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LARGE NATURAL BODY OF WATER. Pools are fine. I don't know when or why I developed this fear, but it just happened, ok? Now, knowing this about me, this is what happened. . . As soon as I was finished taking all the pictures I wanted, I got the urge to put my electronics in a safe spot, and proceed to jump into the little ponds. I waned to go and splash around in the waterfall, and slide down the slippery rocks the waterfall flows on. The closest thing I could do was roll up my pants and climb up the face of the waterfall. My grandma grabbed my iPad and took a few pictures of me climbing it, but I am too embarrassed to show them.
I want to do something like that again, but unfortunately we had other destinations to get to. Along the way I snagged a picture of these berries. I thought it was pretty.
At our next location, we went in and out of several shops, the most interesting was a furniture shop that was on the rivers edge. Right before we entered it, we say a chicken coop, which had a little machine where people could buy chicken feed and well, feed the chickens. This was far too much fun and it was a shame that I only had one quarter.
Seriously, they all scrambled together to eat it!!! It was so awesome!!
Look at 'em go!!!
Ambitious little chicken.
Now, on the deck overlooking the river, there was something very similar to the chicken feeding thing. . . But with fish food. I was skeptical about where all the fish were located in the river, but I was quickly reassured by the large school of carp who stared up at me, begging for food. I scrabbled to get another 25 cents together to trade in for a quarter. Feeding the carp was a lot of fun, though a little bit scary, watching all those hungry mouths, surfacing, waiting, starving.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a good picture of the fishes, they were too far away for my little iPad camera. But, I can see hungry fish at home and feed them for free (kinda).
We returned home and I had one of the most spectacular steak dinners I've had in a long long time. And since then my family and I have been relaxing, watching a movie, playing on our devices, and I even drew a little. After the excitement of today, I've returned into the reflective state I am so often in. It's time for bed now, so I'm going to give you the same song as before, but it sounds a lot more smooth.
Try not to pay attention to the extreme creepypasta that surrounds this song. . .
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/majoras-mask-creepypasta-ben-drowned
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