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innerslytherinI owe a lot of comments, and I'll get to them, I promise. I just got home about an hour ago from a fast and furious weekend excursion with the parents.
Dad's birthday is this coming week, and for his birthday he wanted to go to Fort Wayne to do some genealogy. Mom and I, not being so keen on the genealogy (though interested in the end results), went along but dropped him at the Allen County Public Library and hit Chain O'Lakes State Park. We rented a canoe for three hours and proceeded to paddle about two and a quarter miles in one direction, swap ends of the canoe, and paddle back. It's amazing how, no matter how long I go without being in a canoe, I always get my groove back about 10 minutes after getting in the boat.
Someday I want to own a canoe and have a quiet little lake I can paddle around on. Definitely a great place to go, and we're going to go back sometime when we can either camp or stay in one of their cabins. I did get a little sunburnt, but not too badly, and my butt actually hurts worse from the aluminum bench seats than my shoulders and arms do. LOL
Today we all three did a couple of short hikes at the park, then drove down to Oubache (say "Wabash") State Park. It isn't too impressive, especially after Chain O'Lakes. We didn't stay there long, just drove around a little and headed out.
We went to Geneva, Indiana, from there and stopped at the Gene Stratton-Porter house, which is amazing. It cost them $5000 to build in 1895! Of course, this is the woman who, at one point in her career, was selling a book a minute. I'd say she was the 1900 version of JK Rowling! *G* She also built a 22-room mansion out in Bel Air in 1924, but sadly was killed in a streetcar accident before she ever lived there. Mom and I want to go back up there when we have time to hike around at Loblolly Swamp and look at some of the old Italianate buildings in Geneva.
I'm worn out and would love to go to bed, except if I go to bed at 9 pm then the weekend's over and next thing I know I'll be waking up and going to work. Bleh. Darn those Sunday-night blues! That's the only problem with a weekend-long excursion -- no time to rest up again before work!
I think I'll go to bed, though, and do some reading until I fall asleep. That would be okay.
Dad's birthday is this coming week, and for his birthday he wanted to go to Fort Wayne to do some genealogy. Mom and I, not being so keen on the genealogy (though interested in the end results), went along but dropped him at the Allen County Public Library and hit Chain O'Lakes State Park. We rented a canoe for three hours and proceeded to paddle about two and a quarter miles in one direction, swap ends of the canoe, and paddle back. It's amazing how, no matter how long I go without being in a canoe, I always get my groove back about 10 minutes after getting in the boat.
Someday I want to own a canoe and have a quiet little lake I can paddle around on. Definitely a great place to go, and we're going to go back sometime when we can either camp or stay in one of their cabins. I did get a little sunburnt, but not too badly, and my butt actually hurts worse from the aluminum bench seats than my shoulders and arms do. LOL
Today we all three did a couple of short hikes at the park, then drove down to Oubache (say "Wabash") State Park. It isn't too impressive, especially after Chain O'Lakes. We didn't stay there long, just drove around a little and headed out.
We went to Geneva, Indiana, from there and stopped at the Gene Stratton-Porter house, which is amazing. It cost them $5000 to build in 1895! Of course, this is the woman who, at one point in her career, was selling a book a minute. I'd say she was the 1900 version of JK Rowling! *G* She also built a 22-room mansion out in Bel Air in 1924, but sadly was killed in a streetcar accident before she ever lived there. Mom and I want to go back up there when we have time to hike around at Loblolly Swamp and look at some of the old Italianate buildings in Geneva.
I'm worn out and would love to go to bed, except if I go to bed at 9 pm then the weekend's over and next thing I know I'll be waking up and going to work. Bleh. Darn those Sunday-night blues! That's the only problem with a weekend-long excursion -- no time to rest up again before work!
I think I'll go to bed, though, and do some reading until I fall asleep. That would be okay.
