Charvey's Angels: The Other Day. . .

The other day, I saw a bear,
A great big bear, Oh way out there.

Chorus:
(Same lines in unison)

He looked at me, I looked at him,
He sized up me, I sized up him.

He said to me, "Why don't you run?
I see you isn't, Got any gun."

And so I ran, Away from there,
But right behind me, Was that bear.

In front of me, There was a tree,
A great big tree, Oh glory be!

The lowest branch, Was ten feet up,
I'd have to jump, And trust to luck.

And so I jumped, Into the air,
But I missed that branch, A way up there.

Now don't you fret, And don't you frown,
’Cause I caught that branch, On the way back down!

There is no more, this is the end
Unless I meet, That bear again.

Actually, it was three bears and they didn’t say anything .

Elle and I have been hiking for a couple of hours every day since Saturday (not Sunday though, of course). We’re trying to get into shape for an all-day hike we’re going on with our BFF’s.

Since there are so many great hiking spots around, we’ve gone to a different spot each day. We’ve been “lucky” enough to see wildlife every day.

We started off at our usual spot at the foot of our exit. We decided to try “Adventure Trail” for a change. It lived up to it's name, alright.

We were walking back down the trail when I saw a little black head peeking over the bushes. My heart stopped when I realized it was a bear.

I quietly told Elle in a calm, yet shaky voice, “There’s a bear.” She stopped dead in her tracks.

It was all so surreal.

Then I saw another black head pop up next to the first. “Just hold still, they’re more afraid of us then we are of them” I recited this out loud to reassure both myself and Elle . I wasn’t quite sure what to do after the holding- still- and- acting- more- brave- than- the- bear part.

Thankfully Elle remembered all the bear signs we’ve seen too and cautioned “Don’t make any sudden movements.”

“Let’s go very slowly” was my next input. It was so scary. I don’t know why, but it was. We took a couple steps down the path and the bears scampered away. That’s when Elle noticed that there had been a third bear in the bushes too.

My heart was pounding with each step back. Every rock and tree stumped looked like another bear and my breath caught in my throat each time.

Thankfully, we made it back out to the open meadow without any more bear sightings.

We were so lucky that the bears’ mom wasn’t nearby!

We headed down another trail way away from the bear path. Elle suggested we sing The Bear Song (listed above). A few verses in, we saw a garter snake. We didn't know it was harmless at the time, so it freaked us me out.

Today, we saw a cute bunny on our hike.

Yesterday, we hiked all the way to the top of a near by mountain! It was pretty hard, but we were richly rewarded (after being scared to death by another garter snake on the way):

We made it to the top just as the paragliders were taking off