Monday, October 19, 2009

West Virginia- Saturday-Henry.

On Saturday morning, we got up early...

...mooched a healthy breakfast off Aunt Katie...

...and headed to Bridge Day. The New River Gorge Bridge is the longest single arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere. And besides being the longest, it is 876 feet high. Once a year, it is closed to cars so people can walk across and the very brave ones jump off.
The weather was cold and drizzly, so June's best defense was to fall asleep in the backpack.

Mister Anthony and Aunt Jill took the risk of standing close to the edge.

Sadie got a look over the edge.

Mama even scooted up to the edge. Check out the death grip she has on my arm. And papa's holding on to her too. She spent most of Bridge Day hyperventilating about the 4 foot barrier between us and the 876 foot down to the river.

The Turners put on their best "Monkey Faces."


Here's the view from up top. This was the best weather we had all weekend. On Thursday and Friday, it was so foggy that you couldn't even see the bottom.
The grown-ups were happy for the cold because it meant that Sadie and I didn't want to get out of our strollers.

I did get out when I heard a train whistle. Mama held me up to the edge and we got to watch a passenger train below. If you look close on the right side of the river, you can see a small circle. That's where the BASE jumpers aim to land. It's about 30 feet across.

Here's where they jump. Another benefit to the bad weather was the reduced crowds. Last year, it took us 40 minutes to get past the platform. This year, it wasn't even crowded.

Here are two guys jumping together. We don't think we could even stand on each other's shoulders, let alone jump off a bridge.

Mister Anthony really exceeded expectations this weekend. Mama jokes that he is the best errand boy our family could ask for. But it is great having him around. He lifted me up when mama got too scared to look over. He carried June around Taste of Bridge Day for an hour. And he was always there to hold mama's mittens and water bottle.

It's been along time, but we got our shot of papa and a giant turkey leg for this year.

Here's the whole Cooper family (minus PawPaw). We missed you this year, Pawps.Align Center

After we got home, mama carved pumpkins for us. I had many demands and both of our pumpkins have designs on all sides. Here's our name that she carved out. I'll take pictures of our pumpkins tomorrow.


The girls go themselves good and giggly with a rowdy game of peek-a-boo.

Then Junie spun around around until she got dizzy. Believe it or not, we did go to sleep that night.

1 comment:

Jillian said...

Don't worry everyone. Henry found me!