Hitting the Trail with Friends

At the end of the school year, the girls' preschool made a plan to meet somewhere around town each Tuesday. We've only made it a couple times, but today was one of those days. We met our closest Juneau friends there, but didn't see anyone else from school.

We arrived first, a rarity for me, and i had the girls pose for a couple pictures here...

The pretty purple flowers are fireweed, and that is Mendenhall Glacier that you see in the distance.

The trail is called Kaxdigoowu Heen Dei (which in Tlingit means: going back clearwater trail), but is also called the Mendenhall River Trail and the Brotherhood Bridge Trail. It is flat (nice for kids, strollers, and biking) and meanders through the woods alongside the river. We stepped off the paved trail onto some planks that had been laid and waved to the rafting tours floating by. We had fun looking for fairies, secret entrances to the castle, and collecting wildflowers: