A three state day!
Kansas, Missouri, and finally Iowa!
What a beautiful morning!
I was rather excited at 7am to wake up and realize we had avoided the rain that danced around us all night. Scott wanted to wait to put the fly on the tent until the last minute because it was fairly warm out. Since it was morning and there was no sign of rain I drifted happily back to sleep. That is until some large drops of rain startled me into consciousness. Scott and I attempted to go back to sleep after putting the fly on, but moments after the rain stopped the lawn mowers started. Good Morning World! :-)
So why does Cody look guilty so early in the morning? Scott gave the kids cookies for breakfast. We don’t even keep cookies in the house normally, let alone serve them for breakfast.
We found another Junior Ranger Badge: Tall Grass Prairie National Recreation Area in Kansas. We visited the exhibits, watched a movie, worked on our Junior Ranger Books, and went for a hike.
The picture above in the middle is of the largest ball of barbed wire we have ever seen. Cody still struggles with the statement, “See with your eyes, not your hands.”
Notice Cody lingering at the perfectly dry stacked fence wall? It is now missing a perfectly placed stone. We tried to put it back. Honestly we did. We are hoping the wall is still standing… Again, the whole look with your eyes thing. Cody is still working on it…
We stopped at Burger King for some belated birthday ice cream and smoothies.
This was a long day of driving. We arrived at the Rock Creek campground at 7:15pm. We had some beans and brats for dinner and then quickly tried to put up the tent as some large dark rapidly moving clouds closed in. We camped right next to a playground for the kids. They were able to play for a bit while dinner was cooking up, but then Cody fell off a slide injuring his belly and head. He crawled into the tent to nurse his wounds just as the storm started to swirl. After the storm moved on we all had a shower! (A real shower!) Woohoo!
