Around the campsite during down time, each person found something that was fun & entertaining to keep themselves busy. Truman enjoyed playing tug of war with the tree & a rope.
Franklin & Amy read books & enjoyed nature.
Tommie helped Harrison with his shoe and played football with the boys.
Harrison dug in the dirt and found cool bugs, like this walking stick.
With the pack, we went on a hike to the Fire Tower. It was about a 1 1/2 to 2 mile hike round trip. We stopped to see all sorts of interesting creatures along the way. Only those who were super-brave climbed the many, many steep steps on the creepy, unstable fire tower. It was scary, but our whole family made it safely to the top & back down. The view from the top was worth any ounce of fear we experienced. You could see for miles and miles and enjoy some fall colors. Tommie even spent some extra time with the wasps at the top to find a geocache - success!
No, those aren't ants. Those are the people at the bottom of the tower...
Pack 369 on the hike!
On Sunday, after we packed up camp, we headed out to the Lincoln sites. President Abraham Lincoln was raised in Indiana from age 7 to age 21. We stopped to visit his mother's grave and the Lincoln farm. They have rebuilt the cabin and homestead as it was in Lincoln's days. It was not a museum, so the boys were allowed to touch everything - yippee! We had to hike about 1800 yards (not sure what that translates to in mileage) to see everything.
2 comments:
Great pictures. What a fun time!
Sounds very Presidential- oh you are a Presidential family. So glad you are getting out before the snow hits.
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