Turkey Run - August 12

Thursday we drove into Indianapolis to the Children's Museum.  Originally, we had planned to go to the Indianapolis Zoo but the hot and humid temps made us decide that someplace with air conditioning would be a better choice.  Keegan had never been to the museum so it was all new to him.

The boys were impressed with this Bumblebee Transformer.  It was used in one of the transformer movies.  As you can see, masks were required for all under age 12 which was only Keegan but Hunter supported Keegan by wearing his mask as well.  However, about 30 minutes into the museum and we discovered that no one else of any age was wearing a mask so we all demasked.

These are the Terra Cotta Warriors.  In 1974 Chinese farmers discovered in a pit 6,000 life-sized terra cotta soldiers along with horses and chariots.  They were buried in order to protect the emperors in the afterlife.

Both of the boys enjoyed using the controllers to do docking procedures with spacecraft.

Keegan and papaw are farming.

After leaving the museum we stopped in Danville, Indiana for supper at the Mayberry Cafe.  We ate here last year but it was the restaurant of choice of both the boys.

Andy Taylor's car.

As we left Danville, the skies darkened and ominous clouds filled the skies.  We rushed to beat the storms that we could see were coming  We didn't make it.  About Bellmore the clouds opened and we drove through heavy rain for about 15 minutes and then it stopped.  We made it back to camp before it began to rain again but it was a more gentle rain.  We heard on the radio that Gibson City, Illinois was completely flooded as a result of this same storm.

No s'more tonight because of the rain.  It was nearly four o'clock when we got back so we stayed inside playing games.  Hunter and papaw played a couple of game of chess.  Tomorrow we head for home.