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Yes, a group of teenagers were walking down the mountain singing Wheels on the Bus. And when we were done with that we moved on to the clean up song, the Mr. Sun song, and the I Love You song from Barney, the clue song from Blue’s Clues, and other songs from kids shows we watched when we were little. Then we started talking about who had loved what show, who thought that movie was stupid, etc.

If we saw hikers coming we would stop singing, but half the time we could not see them until they were directly in front of us. Those of us in the front would stop singing, sheepish grins on our face while the back kept singing. Then we would stop walking to let the hikers pass, and they would stop singing to ask why we were taking a break. I wish I had seen their faces when they saw the people coming up the trail. 😀

When we ran out of kids songs, we moved onto Christmas songs. Marching down the trail singing Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell Rock, Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer…. This is the stuff that I want to remember forever. Ok, I want to remember all of it forever. But it’s the silly stuff like this that makes me happy. 🙂

We were moving so quickly! And I did not even realize it, because my ankle had stopped hurting so badly. We had moved back to country and pop music, and while I enjoyed singing along when I knew the words, I was glad for the breaks in between where I could catch my breath. I guess I was walking to the beat of the music though, because looking back I realize that I was moving faster when we were singing the pop songs. 😀

We had entered a series of switchbacks, with some “steps” where the trail curved. It was probably around 12:30, and we were all starting to get hungry. We were keeping an eye out for a place to eat lunch, but we had to get to the bottom of the switchbacks before there was even a chance of a good place.

I was just at the steps where the trail turned again when I heard someone in the back shout “Red Light!” I was glad to stop and immediately sat down. Everyone behind me sat down too – we were all tired. We still had two and a half miles to go, and we were already tired. Did I mention that we should have been almost at the bottom of the mountain by then?

5 minutes stretched to 10 and I was ready to go again. I yelled back to see if anyone was not ready. Someone yelled back that they were NOT ready, do NOT leave. I shrugged and asked who had “snack”. Jordan said that she had the banana split, and everyone cheered. Bowls appeared in a matter of minutes, and soon we were splitting it up as evenly as we could. Someone in the back came forward with Ben’s bowl, and I asked why Ben was not over here. I was told that he had hurt his ankle, so Jen and Katie were checking on it. I sighed – another ankle. I hoped that I would not have to give up the ace bandage – my ankle was going to hurt without the support of the bandage.

Our snack over, we waited some more. We talked and sang, said hello to the hikers that passed and waited even more.

After we had been sitting there for a half an hour, I went up to see what was happening with Ben. He was lying on the ground, clearly in pain, with Katie sitting down by his feet. When I asked where Jen was, she said she had gone further up the mountain to try and get some signal so she could call for help.

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