Walking down from the falls, Elliot says to a little girl coming our way with her family:
“Excuse me? Girl? Excuse me? Girl? I saw a lizard.”
(We did see a small lizard while on the hike uphill. It was quite an event. Lots of prickly pear cactus, too, which he asked about many times after I told him that people eat the fruit).
I love how he calls boys and girls he does not know “Boy” and “Girl”. They don’t immediately react when he calls them that.
And everyone remarks how adorable it is that he says “excuse me” before talking when others are talking, even when addressing me. Rebecca even asked where he got that habit from, and I said not from me and Karolina.
Hadar, Iftag, Sagi, Rebecca. They all remarked on his politeness separately.
And we did see a lizard scurrying across the rocks in our way up.
Building “schnakas” with “schnaka tools” on the way down the trail. That’s how Elliot says inukshuk, the Inuit word I taught him for stacking rocks as a signpost for the trail.
He absolutely LOVES stacking these rocks. We must have spent almost an hour doing nothing else.
