While my family was in town visiting me for a few weeks I decided I would spend some time with my little cousin. He is 15 and kind of looks up to me. I thought that it would be fun for the both of us if I hung out with him and showed him some of the wild outdoors around where I live. I'm 25 and am always busy with work. I hardly ever have the time to be adventurous and have some fun in the great outdoors. I was looking forward to this!
There is a place about 20 minutes from my house called "West Branch". There is a huge lake there and lots of hiking trails. There is also a river connecting to it as well as a dam. I thought this would be an awesome place for us to go hiking! When we got out of the car we both found some hiking sticks and disappeared in to the woods. About 20 minutes into the hike I am alarmed by an awful scream! I turned around and my little cousin was balling his eyes out and ran! When I finally caught up to him I asked what was wrong. So he walked with me and showed me a pile of bones in the bushes. I tried explaining to him that they were animal bones.
After about 10 minutes of me trying to talk him into continuing our fun hike, he started crying agian and said he wanted to go home because he was scared. I had no choice but to give in. He thought the bones were human bones. He would not believe me when I told him they were animal bones. So he got exactly what he wanted. We went home. The only time I had to try and have some fun, got ruined by nature.
