A Different Sort of Hike

Mike had been telling me about this place he'd heard about in the Unita's recently. A place where people have been building fairy houses in the woods for years. We wanted to go check it out. We finally carved out the time on Saturday (I insisted - overriding all objections - even if it was an hour's drive and it was already 3:30 PM). 

What a strange place it is. Just about a half mile walk from the turn-out on the Mirror Lake Highway you come into this place - maybe an acre or two of people's whimsical creations. Organic in a non-organic kind of way. Whatever people have thought up. Some of it is just super tacky, some of it clever, some magical. The kids LOVED exploring it! They want to make one. 

This goes down as one of my favorite pictures of ALL TIME.

Crossing the stream on the way in. Check out Tillman's awesome attitude spelled out in his expression. (It changed dramatically a few minutes later as he fell under the spell of the Fairy Forest.)

Definitely a colorful place

 In my opinion, there were too many brightly painted rocks. I picture a fairy forest as a more subtly magical place. But we did have a few favorite painted rocks. 

The Joseph Smith quote

For you, Casey and Helen

The happy rock

 Other stuff we liked...

Love this picture of the little boys. Sully standing there in  his "Chill I got this Bro" shirt and Abner running at him with a lance.  Ha ha ha. 

Mini Stonehenge

Cleverly painted Moose stick

Don't know what this is -- but somebody took a lot of time welding it together -- so there you go.

After our stroll through the Fairy Forest we headed to Bruges  for dinner, and then, because we were close, we stopped at the Millcreek Sullivan's for a visit. We interrupted bed time, but Casey and Helen were nice to let the kids come out to play for a while anyway.  

Noble and the other Noble (Noble Ezekiel Roanhorse) having a friendly futbol match in the back yard.

That was fun.