Hillside Galloops

This picture is from back in August but I found it just now and realized I never wrote the story for our journal. My dad tells the story of a hillside galloop that he once saw. It is his favorite story to tell when we are camping up Loss Creek. It is half man/half animal and it has one leg shorter than the other. So, if you are ever running around a hill and are being chased by one (and they are fast), all you have to do to escape is turn around and run the other way because that will cause him to topple over because he can only run one way around a hill because of his short leg! He will just fall down the hill if you turn around!

Sounds scary right? Well, my girls are afraid of them and even though they have never seen one, they believe that they do exist because Grandpa swears he has seen one. 

Anyway...one day we were shopping for school clothes and Saige saw these pants/capris, held them up and said with excitement, "MOM! This must be what the hillside galloops wear!!!"

One day Madi came home upset from school because she had been telling the kids on the playground about the hillside galloops and they told her that they weren't real. She said to them, " YES THEY ARE-MY GRANDPA HAS SEEN ONE!"

Thanks Dad!