Easy as a walk in the park..Newport News Park

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Today's training day involved taking a hike at a local 8,000 acre park. 

My mom dropped us off at the Welcome Center, and while she played 9 holes at the adjoining golf course we hiked the nature trails through Civil War battlefield.  It's a bit hard to see but the dark area running through this picture is the bottom of the trench dug out by soldiers.  To the left and right there are high mounds.  The trench is around 5 feet deep.  

Being in Newport News we are on a peninsula.  Everywhere you look there's water of some sort, lakes, swamps, streams, rivers, and if you get to the very end and maybe use binoculars... and it's a really clear day, you may just see the ocean 30 miles away.  Today we mainly dealt with swampy boggy type of water. 

We met a new friend along the way, but he's very shy and didn't really want his picture taken. 

It was a fantastic day for a hike and we put on about 4 miles.  We loaded our packs with many items that we will hike with, we packed snacks, and even wore some of our official hiking gear.  

Below we are decked out in our clearance rack clothing.  The shirts are the ones I bought for a couple bucks each and the pants were 75% off at Dick's sporting goods,about $9 bucks each.  They are "golfing" pants.  At least that's the department I bought them from.  100% polyester and amazingly lightweight.  They're a bit baggy on both of us.  Dave's were hemmed tonight when we got back to my parent's and we're planning on cutting into the waist bands on them to add a drawstring, better than a belt and not as easy to lose.  

Aren't we stylish?  Yeah, yeah, we sort of match but clearance rack pickers can't be choosers.