A Better Day

Everyone was slow to rise.  Carol and I got up at 7 and walked Sandy and sat outside enjoying the quiet and comfortable temps before the heat and humidity settled in.  At 8:30 we got the boys up, ate breakfast and went to the visitor's center and a 1920's farm here in the park.  At this point it was another hot and humid day.   I am thankful that, unlike Turkey Run, there is internet but I am still having trouble downloading pictures.    I have been working at getting them in order but have given up.  After we went to the farm, we went back to camp for lunch and to change into swim suits for the water park.  The park is small but the boys enjoyed it.  There are two water slides.  I went down both one time.  Carol went down the slide that used tubes twice.  There was a lazy river that all of us enjoyed.  Keegan spent most of his time in the smaller pool for smaller kids with a slide and a large bucket that dumped water out sporadically.   Surprisingly he enjoyed that.  Keegan even rode a double tube with Hunter on the lazy river.  After we had been there an hour or so, everyone had to get out of the pool area because a storm was coming in.  We came back to camp to wait out the storm but decided to not return.  I think this storm will cool off things.  We are hoping the rest of the week will be less humid.  We plan to return to the water park one more day.                 

After breakfast, Keegan and I walked to the playground.  It is very nice with lots of different places to climb and use up pent-up energy.

Parts of the part were originally a Christmas tree farm.   These spruce trees were part of the farm.

Keegan had fun climbing on several of the sections of the playground.

?When we got back to camp, Keegan's hair was soaking wet from the humidity so Papaw combed it.  Doesn't he look stylish?

The entrance to the park crosses under a highway using this rock/stone bridge.

Three hot guys trying to cool off on the porch of the farm house.  The house was ordered from the Sears, Roebuck Catalog.  

The park is the site of an Indiana village in the early 1800's called Prophetstown.   Several Indian tribes in this part of the country formed an alliance to try to protect their land from the white settlers that were taking over the territory.  This monument is called "The Circle of Stones."  Each stone has the name of an Indian tribe that was a part of the alliance.  There are 14 stones.  In 1811, William Henry Harrison (a future president) and his soldiers defeated the Indians and burned down their village.  The Indians no longer were a threat to the new settlements of whites.

The wild flowers were pretty.

The kids got to throw hamburger buns to the pigs.