A couple weeks ago we decided to buy the GoPro Hero 5 Black.
We honestly weren’t even looking to buy one, but then Amazon Prime day rolled around and their marketing definitely got the best of me.
I have the very handy Amazon shopping app, and on Prime day it kept sending me notifications for all the great things we could buy. The GoPro was one of them. Since Amazon Prime Day was just 24 hours, we didn’t have much time to think about it, so at the end of the day we decided we would hold off and think more. The next day I had a pit in my stomach thinking about the deal we missed out on. I was pretty sure we’d end up getting one and now we just lost out on saving $80.
So, I made it my mission to check deals daily from that day forward. Two weeks later, Target had a deal! Buy the GoPro and get a $50 Target gift card. We also have the Red card so 5% off and free pick up in the store meant we got $70ish dollars off. Not quite 80, but I didn’t want to risk missing another good deal.
One of the circumstances for purchasing it was we had to actually used it. I know that sounds pretty silly, but we are both terrible at taking pictures and capturing moments on film. I’m pretty good at getting cute things Liam does at home on camera, but when it comes to all three of us out and about, we are terrible. We didn’t even get any pictures of us at Liam’s 1st birthday party. I’m so bitter about that.
Anyhow, I’ve been really wanting to start hiking, swimming and just getting out of the house in general more, so this seemed like a pretty decent motivator.
Two weekends ago we took it for a test run in the pool:
This weekend we took it for a hike! It was our first real hike with Liam and it went great. I wore him on my back in the Ergobaby 360; but if we continue to go on these adventures I definitely want one of those handy hiking baby backpacks. My back didn’t hurt, but as he grows I know it’s going to be difficult. Plus, all the bouncing actually put him to sleep and then his poor head was just bobbling around towards the end. We put the head cover thing on, but he got too hot and just wiggled out of it.
The GoPro worked great, I am really happy with it (outside of some minor annoyances with wifi connections, but it might be user-error, still uncertain there).
We also need a better-quality selfie-stick, the one we got kept spinning around if it was in certain positions.
Selfie stick pictures:
The hike this weekend was pretty great, too. It felt really good just to get out into nature and have my boys with me.
And our girl, Dakota 😊
Rocky can’t handle adventures like this so he was at home enjoying his peace and quiet.
We did have quite the scare, though. At the beginning of the trail there was a huge sign that said the last time bears and mountain lions had been spotted on the trail; A black bear was just spotted 10 days prior, and a mountain lion back in mid-May. And of course, rattle snakes were seen regularly, and while those scare me to no end, I can deal with just turning around and walking away or walking WAY FAR around one. The bears and mountain lions are a different story.
We had just started on a section of trail that was pretty heavily wooded (I use that term loosely, though, since not much is “wooded” down here in Southern California) when we started hearing VERY loud rustling up a steep hill next to us. It wasn’t a bird or small animal rustling, it was definitely large-animal noises. We stopped, didn’t hesitate much, turned around and bolted out of there quickly. We chose another trail and ended up looping back to this one. By that time a large group of people had already gone through and we figured we would be ok. So, we headed through and tested it out. Sure enough, we heard it again, but not nearly as prominent. We stopped, looked around a little and decided to continue ahead. About 100 yards ahead there was a VERY large pile of poop. Not only was it large, but it was fresh, within the last couple of hours at most, and filled with the wild berries we saw all along the trail.
So, without actually seeing what the animal was, we decided it was a black bear or mountain lion. If nothing else, it makes for a good story 😊
Tim scoping the situation out:
And just some other pictures along the way, I even liked how well it took pictures of scenery, too!
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