Yesterday was one of those days.  Not the bad kind.  The rare, memorable, beautiful kind.

I found my husband’s to do list on the kitchen table in the morning.  It had Take A Hike listed.  It was a perfect day for it, so we did.  I picked Devil’s Lake State Park about an hour and a half north in Wisconsin.  I had read on line that it had some challenging hikes with lots of rocks to climb for the Nutty.  It was amazingly beautiful from the moment we pulled in.  The colors were incredible, we must have managed to hit the park on the finest color day of Autumn.  The hike was pleasant, and Nutty (who’s sometimes prone to whining) enjoyed every step of it.  For him the highlight was the walk back along the lake where he got to climb on boulders to his heart’s content.  Little kids love to climb on boulders. We finished up the day with a decent mid-afternoon lunch at a local Baraboo joint.  Aah, perfection.

It was one of those days that you remember for the rest of your life.  That you are glad you got out of bed, put on your shoes and went for it.  That on your death bed you’ll be thinking to yourself, man am I glad I went hiking that day.

Perfect weather, perfect fall colors, perfect family to share it all.  Almost makes me teary eyed.