Legends and Maths

Day 13
Miles 6
We wiped more stinky ointment on the boys. They have spots where their hair has mostly rubbed off from their packs. Their packs are getting lighter though. Day by day. We are all eating through the weight.
We entered Desolation Wilderness today, and Amanda met us along the trail, calling us ‘Legends’ and making our hearts swell up right out of their socks. She said people have been talking about us and that we’ve been spreading magic and wonder.
It made me so happy I thought I’d just cry.
The trail had been easy all day, over and around fallen trees, dancing through fern gullies, taking video of the boys playing on giant rocks. Pictures of the boys sleeping with their heads on logs.
The boys are looking thinner but still okay. We argue about who is a better mother but we’re on the same team, doing the best we can by them.
I counted food again. I’m short somehow. I’m not sure what happened. I have four breakfasts. Check. I have half a salami and half of a thing of cheese and some bread…is that three lunches? Four? Two? I have one dinner. And about eight snacks.
We have, what, three and a half days until we’re meeting up with Aidan? Four? I’m already hungry.
Not so great at the Maths, apparently.
We are also low on toilet paper and pills to purify water. So we thought we’d boil some, except we’re not so sure how much propane we have left.
We planned so carefully, and then somehow it all went to shit at the last minute and we left a bunch of stuff behind. Too worried about weight.
But the boys have enough food, and that’s the important part. And we’ll ask Aidan for cheeseburgers or something, and that’s important too. And at least for now, the stinky ointments we put on the boys stink up my hands and tend to kill my own appetite.