Arkansas

Here is where G and Crystal live! Right in the middle of the beautiful rolling hills of the Ozarks. We hiked out to this overlook, sweating along the way of course and putting poor Bailey into heat exhaustion, but to spectacular views.

Aeneas got a kick out of Leland and how small she is. But more importantly how soft her little fuzzy head is.

We did manage to get out of the heat one day by going to the city pool. It sits on a huge park with bike trails, sports fields, tennis courts, a creek and some woods. Patrick decided he was going to swim without his water muscles for the first time and managed to do a pretty convincing dog paddle. Aeneas chewed a hole into his water muscle and floated lopsided the rest of the day.

The only unfortunate thing is that the area seems to be wearing off of them a bit faster than we originally thought it would. The Ozarks are very much like the Appalachians only smaller. Yes, we are all related to this guy.