Weekly Recap: With the cold and the ice

Last Saturday we did our grocery shopping, a LOT of grocery shopping! Then we walked along the river. We've had so much snow and rain this winter that the spring runoff is high. There's been flooding in some areas. We wanted to show the kids that the river is different from how they're used to seeing it and how it is dangerous because of the speed, depth, and temperature. In this first picture is a tree that grows horizontal, over the river. When we've visited this spot in the summer we can wade across most of the river, with the water not reaching my kids' knees, and the main trunk of the tree is at about adult chest level.