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SuzanneG wrote:
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| Ours came today and they are great - really good quality too! I feel like I got such a deal! |
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Oh good....I was going to ask you if you got them and to give us a report! I'm going to tell my neighbor, who often goes with us into the muddy woods and needs a pair. |
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Yes, I was/am pleasantly surprised. Here's more info from the manufacturer's website.
They have them advertised as youth boots - I got the youth 6 which is also a woman's 8. They are roomy and comfortable. They will also be very warm with wool socks this winter.
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Michele,
Do you think they could double as snow boots for the kids with good socks?
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Do you think they could double as snow boots for the kids with good socks? |
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Yep I certainly do - they will be here for sure.
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Did you order them for the big boys? I don't see big boy sizes...
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Elizabeth wrote:
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No I didn't -- they all have boots already, that they have bought themselves.
Kevin (15) will be taking microscope and dissection classes on Thursdays at the county park environmental center so it's the perfect opportunity for the rest of us to go on nature hikes (though he will get to have nature hikes as well). It's an area where we have frequently camped so we know it well (the park is HUGE and one can get lost there - ask me how I know) and the river (Conestoga - pretty small) is right there so there are many opportunities for wet and muddy feet. 
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Six pairs on their way! Thanks for the tip. We soooo needed new boots. 
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When I was little in the UK, we wore real wellies that went up to just below the knee (I have a happy red pair from Scotland that I wear these days). It seems like a lot of the ones here in the US only top out at mid-calf, which with my girls and their pond adventures, results in what we referred to growing up as "gettin' a soaker".
Does anyone know a US supplier that still offers a higher wellie boot for children?
Thanks in advance!
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Ahah! This is where I got mine! Not cheap, but awesome.
http://www.smithandhawken.com/catalog/product.jsp;jsessionid =QVEHY2YFMQVQSCTLNKFFAFIKNNVIWUPU?productId=prod280003p&cate goryId=cat230003p
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Tracy, these are the ones everyone here in coastal Alaska wears. They go all the way up to the knee.
Xtratuf boots
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Cool, Theresa, thanks!
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Mary G wrote:
We found boots like these at Wal-mart -- got them for the kids when we go to my BIL's farm in NC -- easy on, easy off and really easy "hose-off"!  |
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My kids LIVE in their boots as much as they're able! I just ordered these for myself! I've been needing them forever...can't wait till it rains!
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When I came over to the USA, I was astonished that a) most people didn't know what Wellies were, and b) That they were very hard to get. Finally Wal-mart picked them up, and between them and my Mum, both kids have wellies... which they love to wear in the rain 
Of course, nothing compares to tramping over Dartmoor in them as I did in university!
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