It’s day 18 in the blog every day in May challenge. Today the prompt is:  Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.

So this is going to be a bit of a quick one today. I’ve got a wedding happening later this afternoon, I need to pack to head back to Seattle tomorrow, and I slept too late (but it felt so good).

(Photo not from this particular story but I’m intently staring at a rock so it works)

I must have been pretty young, I can’t remember what exact age, when we visited the beautiful pictured rocks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We hiked on a short trail in, although I’m sure at my age it did not seem short. We arrived on the beaches of Lake Superior and had plans to spend the afternoon there. It didn’t take long before I was off and collecting rocks. I still collect rocks to this day but at that age I was a maniac for rocks.

Everywhere I looked there was another beautiful rock that I just couldn’t put down. Each one more lovely than the next. I think I just felt so much excitement at the pretties I was going to be able to take home. Well at the end of the afternoon I had done a pretty good job of filling a backpack full of rocks. I don’t believe I thought there was even one I could part with.

I’m assuming in an attempt to get me to leave some rocks behind my parents said if I wanted all of the rocks that I had to carry the backpack all the way to the car. I couldn’t pawn it off on anyone else and I couldn’t get carried. I was a stubborn little thing so I put my backpack on and got to walking. It didn’t take long though before I started to complain. I wanted to be carried. We told you Jessica is all I got. I tried to get someone to carry my bag. I asked all around, even trying to slyly get my sister to help out. Which I seem to remember her doing for just a bit. After which I tried to get someone to carry me. I mean I had been carrying a bag of rocks and I was tired. I think they at least made me keep walking.

Anyhow we all made it to the car with the bag of rocks! Hurray! I showed them. Hehehe.