For my Week 5 Adventure with Kids I asked a mom friend Christine and her son to join me and my three (younger) boys. We ended up at Eagle Fern Park and the boys just loved it. 
Our original destination was to head back to Salmon Creek but it was too far for 
Christine as she had to get back by a certain time. We started heading instead toward McIver Park, but then saw a sign in Estacada for Eagle Fern Park and I said, “Do you want to see what this is like?” and my friend said sure. McIver is nice but I wanted to find a new location.
The park is located on the Eagle Creek, which the boys wanted to play in right away. But Christine and I suggested first hiking, then playing in the water. We found a trail after crossing this rickety bridge and the boys bounced on it and laughed and giggled. The trail offered a place to go uphill — the sign said Uneven 
Trail which I always like to opt for. Getting out of the box, coloring outside the lines, taking the backroads. I talk to my kids about this in life and in their walks with God. It may be harder and it may be uphill and there may be more spider webs, but there are sticks to combat those. . . It is about the adventure. . .
And part of the adventure for me is listening to the conversation of the boys as we thrashed through bushes and pushed away spider webs and I saw the boys holding sticks and running and chasing one another. . . .Getting kids outside is so necessary. I need it too.
We got to the creek next and the boys just wanted to get into the water
. They were trying to catch fish and other creatures in the water and they got excited after each creepy crawly thing they saw. “This is such a good day, Mom,” we heard. I agree.
http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/parks/eaglefern.htm
