Palouse Falls

For Blair's birthday I planned a family outing and picnic to Palouse Falls (about an hour from where we live).  It was just the kind of birthday outing I knew Blair would love and I planned a picnic with all of his favorite treats!

It all seemed good in my head....that is until we got there and I discovered something very important.  I have been realizing more and more over the last few years that I have a fear of heights, but on this trip in particular I realized that that fear is multiplied by 50,000 when I have a toddler running around in an area with said heights!!!  Oh my!  Think I look remotely calm in this picture?  Think again!  Notice the death grip my knuckles have on little Briggs!!  Right where we're standing, beyond that fence drops into a huge canyon and the whole park is set up above that canyon.  Yes, there were fences....but that didn't matter to me :)  I couldn't take a deep breath until Briggs was strapped in the car and we were headed home.

Some nice man said he's take a picture of our family.  Yeah....he took the picture while asking me how to use the camera....and then seemed to think he'd captured a great pic!  One more try shoulda done the trick....oh well :)

So long story short, had the park been placed at the bottom of the falls looking up, it just might have been the lovely afternoon I imagined.  But it wasn't, and I was basically a nervous wreck the whole time and Blair was annoyed that I was a nervous wreck the whole time....therefore it wasn't quite the perfect picnic we'd imagined!  But I guess we'll have more interesting memories that way....right?  And I'll know that one visit to Palouse Falls should do me for life :)