Day 7: The References are Endless

We passed this sign on our thirteen mile hike from Kirkby Stephens to Keld. I believe it was in reference to the pace at which we were moving. Or, quite possibly, in reference to the pace at which I would be moving when my leg got sucked up to my shin in the bog.

Oh yes. It was exciting.

For you picture-lovers:

 

Those be the hills from whence we came.

Our Glamour girl. The only one of us who color coordinates her bandana and scarves with her hiking outfit each day.

Now, lest you think we perpetually walk in silence, today we shall regale you with the wildly varied musical numbers performed while traipsing through British fields.

Mom: "I just want to go the distance."
Katie and Bekah in unison: "She's go-ing the dis-tance. She's go-ing for speed." ("Going the Distance" by Cake.)

Katie: "There's bathrooms down there--rumor has it."
Bekah: "Ooooohhh." ("Rumor Has It" by Adele.)

Mom: "I'm just going to take things step by step."
Bekah: "Brick by brick."
Katie: "Oh yah!"
Bekah: "Stone by stone. Yaaah."
Katie: "Bit by bit." ("Step by Step" by Whitney Houston.)

Sarah: "You're doing great, Mom."
Mom: "I just want to keep up with the big girls."
Katie: "You're play-ing with the big boys now." (Soundtrack to the Prince of Egypt.)

Katie spontaneously breaks out while hiking uphill: "Climmmmb everryyy mounntaainn!" (Soundtrack to the Sound of Music.)
Bekah interupts: "They were a bit ambitious, weren't they? I mean, every mountain?"

Sarah: "We go low after this."
Katie: "Low, low, low--she wore her apple-bottom-jeans and boots-with-the-furrrrr." ("Low" by Flo Rida.)

Mom, while looking up a steep hill: "How are we going to do this?"
Katie and Bekah as they go skipping ahead: "This-is-how-we-do-it." ("This is how we do it" by Montell Jordan.)

Sarah: "It's only a thirteen mile hike today."
Katie and Bekah in unison: "I would walk five hundred miles, and I would walk five hundred more." ("500 Miles" by the Proclaimers.)
Bekah: Pause. "We wouldn't really, though, would we?"

Sarah: "I like that shirt on you."
Katie: "Team-building-exercise-ninetyyyy-niinnnneee."
Bekah: "And it never looked better on you." (Flight of the Conchords.)

Yes. We really do talk like that. All the time.