Day 5: Catawaba Falls and Retrocade

Day 5 began with a trip to Catawaba Falls. It was absolutely beautiful. It was about 3 miles there and back. Along the way, we did some of the side trails and saw several mini waterfalls. It took us about 40 minutes to get to the big falls and it was incredible! I have never seen a waterfall quite like it. The kids waded in the water, to various levels of soakedness. The walk back was much quicker, unfortunately, Luke got stung by something. He handled it fairly well (no tears). I carried him on my back until he felt like he could walk and he said his pain was a 15/10. He loved the hike until that point and if he hadn't been stung, would have given it a 10/10 (the sting brought it down to a 6.5). 

Lots of hiking pictures, some are from my phone, some from Thomas' and some from Kayce's, so they aren't in order of when they occurred on the hike (and I have a hard time with pictures on Blogger lately, so I am not going to try and rearrange).

One of the many mini waterfalls

Photo cred to Kayce for this one, the falls went up even higher than this picture captures.

I circled Kara and Trevor midway up (as far as they went for safety reasons)

We finished the hike around 1145 and since a lot of us were very wet, we decided to go back to the rental for lunch. We cleaned up and changed and then headed to our next destination--the Retrocade. The Wills had enjoyed it so much the day before, we had to give it a try. They joined us for a bit and then went to a local zoo/nature center. We gave the kids the option of going with them or staying at the arcade and they all wanted to stay. We played classic games (Punch Out, QBert, Ms. Pacman, etc) and pinball and air hockey. We ended up staying for about 4 hours (and everyone could have stayed longer). 

We picked up dinner on the way to the rental. The boys got in the hot tub, and the kids enjoyed their last evening together. The adults tried another escape room and did much better than the night before. We were able to solve the clues and keep ourselves from being experimented on by a crazy dentist.