Season of small walks

Saturday: temp +5 to 0, easterly wind, bright. Songesand, Lysefjord
Sunday: temp +8, southerly wind, sunny. Church and Sola Beach.

It's so easy to let your world get very very small when you have little kids. You travel short distances, never far from a nap, a feed or a toilet. This weekend, after what seems like too many routine housebound or local Saturdays, we decided to go on an adventure. It's always a bit of a gamble, will it all work together to provide something for everyone, enough fun and exercise and sleep and food and warmth and clothes to mean that we felt it was worth it.

Here are some of the things we did (I will rate them out of 4, one for each member of the family), ferry ride (4/4), drive over some beautiful wild Ryfylke scenery, (4/4, 2 sleeping, 2 enjoying the peace), walk along a small track- through snowdrifts with 2 buggies (3/4, one member not happy about clothing or being woken from nap or lack of food), picnic behind very large boulder in the snow (4/4- until cold set in), walk back down track which turned into a sprint to get screaming children back to the car (0/4 family well and truly fed up). Kilometers walked 0.4. Drive back (3/4 one dirty nappy changed in layby), ferry home (4/4).

I think we (adults) wished we could have walked at least another 2 hours... maybe alone.

Today we had a lovely short walk on the beach. The expectations were lower and a great time was had.

For me though, it was great to get to just take in some nature, some space and wilderness and forget about the laundry.