We had a pretty active day yesterday. Got up early to watch the sunrise, had coffee on the terrace, I went to the gym for an hour and after I had showered, we packed a bag with water, snacks and mosquito spray. We drove for about 40 minutes to Mountain Lakes Park in North Salem, NY.
We started walking and soon we came to a lake filled with water lilies. I’ve never seen so many before. I was completely amazed by this!
We continued on and realized we had walked to an end, so we had to go back a little bit and then go back on the path we wanted. So incredibly nice, basically noone there, we were alone for the most part.
At some point I heard something that sounded like a baby bear crying. The thought of running into a bear had never crossed my mind, cause I didn’t grow up with bears in the forest (I grew up in the south of Sweden, we saw occasionally a moose but even that was rare). I started walking a little faster and kept looking around until we had walked far enough for it to feel a little safer. Running into momma bear on our hike would be amazing to see but absolutely terrifying to experience:)
We walked to what we thought was the lookout point. We sat on a wooden bench and had snacks before we continued. Very shortly after that, we ended up at the actual lookout, haha. There were several people hanging out looking at the view of the three lakes. We only stayed for about a minute, not even. We were pretty tired at this point, especially our little fluff butt.
Thor tried to stay awake in his travel bag by my feet in the car but eventually he fell asleep. He walked 6 MILES!! Our tiny 7.5 lbs baby walked 6 miles yesterday! Can you believe it? And he “climbed” a mountain (it was slowly going up and then down, you didn’t really notice that you walked up a mountain). I am so proud of him. I wonder if his little muscles are sore today, haha:)
