The kiddos didn't have school today, so we decided to do some adventuring. The leaves are changing colors right now, and are just beautiful everywhere you look! And, the weather is sunny, and warm, and dry, and perfect!
We stopped about 5miles from our house for a geocache at the Grand Village of the Kickapoo Park. We were amazed at the history we found there!
There are some amazing structures too!
Annah read to us about The Spirit Fire.
The kids were sad to learn about how the native American indians were forced out of this land by fire and laws in the 1800's.
Our second stop was also only a few miles from our house, at a beautiful little county park. We admired the trees here. Annah found a cache quickly.
Inside the cache, Sylvia found our first Travel Bug, a little bear who has travel 5554 miles from Germany to us! We plan to take him further, to Indiana, at Thanksgiving time.
This park is dedicated to those who love forestry!
We hiked back a trail into the woods, where it was just gorgeous. We looked for a cache in the woods too, but it was hidden when there was no tree cover, and hasn't been found in almost a year. We plan to go back once all the leaves have fallen and try again.
Our third stop was an earthcache at one of the windmills nearby. We were sad to see graffiti on it.
We learned a lot about wind here, how is changed and how it is used!
Our last stop was at Moraine View State Park. We spent a couple hours there, walking around, playing in the leaves, [me] taking lots of photos of the kids, and finally doing an earthcache about what a Moraine is...very interesting!
Here the kids are sitting on an erratic. Do you know what that is--without looking it up?!
We had a great day of adventuring, fun, and enjoying each other and God's beautiful world around us!
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