Tallulah Gorge

For New Years Day we decided to brave the cold and kick the year off on the right foot with a hike - we are really hoping to get to do more hiking this year. :) We headed about an hour north of us to Tallulah Gorge - we did this hike last time when I was 5 months pregnant with Em -

She had a blast hiking around on the trail parts of the hike and only complained a little bit about having to ride for the stairs part. It's 531 steps from the stop to the bottom of the stairs, and another 568 back up to the other side.... it was a heck of a workout. Thankfully Jason carried her all the way on the stairs - I just had to carry her the last mile or so of the regular hike around the rim. She is MUCH heavier than she was back in April when we went to Italy or even back in September when we went camping at Rock Town. She has had several growth spurts in the past couple of months. :) We will find out in the early part of February just how much - that's her 2 year check up.