On the day after Thanksgiving, we did our usual avoidance of shopping centers and headed for the trees. We went to Schenck Forest for a hike after breakfast. It's a very pretty hike through a fern-filled forest. The first half of the hike went well, but Simon, wearing a watch, had arbitrarily decided that we should turn around and head back at precisely 12:00pm. So when Zac and I insisted we continue until the end of the trail and we didn't head back until 12:26pm, Simon had cried and been very upset with us. Alice was also very moody. The pictures always make it look like we're having fun, and often times we are, but there's a lot of strife and misery as well.
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Simon was very happy again once we were home, had eaten lunch, and he could play Jenga on our front porch with the neighbor while wearing a bicycle helmet like a totally normal person.
