Bish Bash or Bash Bish

The third week in April was the boy’s Spring Break. It started with a canceled school day on Friday (due to REAL snow in April) and ended with a trip to the tallest water fall in Massachusetts—Bash Bish Falls (which I mistakenly called Bish Bash Falls when I first found it because of the Thomas the Train characters Bish and Bash, which were really big with I-man at the time…thank god Ethan never got into Thomas the Train).

The Falls themselves were utterly spectacular. While not as enormous as Niagra Falls, you can get very close to them and so the power of nature has an immediacy that is hard to look away from. On the way back we found a huge deposit of what looks like raw agate. We snagged a few pieces and they await tumbling as we speak.

The Beeth was a bit overwhelmed by the roaring waters. He got used to it after a while and started to loosen up. I-man was a like puma, jumping from rock to rock. We also had an impromptu stone skipping lesson where Isaac finally made the transition from “buttlicker” (somone that can’t skip a rock) to “stoneskipper” (someone who can). Unfortunately the little joke backfired, as Ethan asked if he was a buttlicker. I told him that rules for buttlicker v. stoneskipper only apply after someone’s 7th birthday. He acknowledged the reasonableness of this rule and was no longer concerned about his status.