Saturday, August 6, 2011

Trying Out the Big Backpack




Our last hiking trip with Zyla had not been incredibly successful. When in Great Basin, she had a difficult time sleeping in her Kelty backpack. Luckily, we had a state of the art best baby backpack money could buy Deuter Kid Comfort III. So far, Z had been too small to fit in this comfortably. Now that she was too big for the Kelty pack, we figured we had to move on to the Deuter. She looked like a little princess sitting in a chair in that thing as we parked right next to the visitor center and began a hike up the Watchman trail. The hike was one that we had done numerous times, so it would be a fair evaluation of the backpacks performance. We left just before naptime giving Zyla a much better shot to fall asleep. As we began the hike, the eyes got heavier. Soon she was zonked out as we talked to another couple with the exact same backpack. Everyone we saw made some sort of comment about how good she had it. She definitely did as the sleeping beauty missed most of this 2 mile roundtrip trail sleeping away. This was very encouraging as now we had taken Zyla successfully camping and found a backpack that she could sleep comfortably in. We finished the day with a trip to the Virgin River where Zyla played in the sand. We are lucky to live in a beautiful place that we can enjoy with all members of the family.

1 comment:

Angela said...

I can't tell you how many times I've heard "do they make that in my size?" while carrying L. I hear comments like that so often I started responding automatically.