It being Saturday, and beautiful one at that, we decided to go for a walk in the forest. There are miles of well-groomed fire roads throughout Duke Forest. The kids did great and we had lots of positive encounters with folks walking dogs. Amelia loves dogs.
The trial goes downhill and Leslie was doing her best to keep Amelia from falling into the gravel (she never did fall). Anyway, Leslie eventually got in front of her and walked backwards in order to keep her speed down. Well, Amelia must have thought that was pretty cool because she then walked backwards down much of the trail (and then back up).
Backwards definitely makes them slower! Why did my parents never think of that? They were always getting on my brother and me about going too fast.
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