A hot hike

Dan and I went on a two day get-a-way last week.  We decided to not go far because I was worried about leaving the kids alone... they are 17 & 14 and who knows what shenanigans they can get themselves into.  {I am a huge worrier}  We love to spend time outdoors so we decided to stay 45 minutes away, close to a few state parks AND close enough to quickly be home if we were needed.  We left early Monday morning and hit the trails. Living in the heartland, our terrain isn't what we love to hike in, like say Colorado or southern Missouri but we did find nice scenic trails along the Platte River. The picture below is on a trail that followed a stream and had a little waterfall just behind us. What you don't see in the picture is the temperature. Neither of us really paid too much attention to the weather forecast and figured it wouldn't be so bad.  WRONG!!  I mean really, it's summer and we are pretty used to the upper 90's. When we made it back to our hotel, the weather channel informed us that, with the heat index, it was 115 outside.  115!!  We are so lucky we didn't have heat stroke.  Needless to say we hung out at the hotel for the rest of the day.