Road Trip

The kids had Columbus Day off of school and so we decided to take a little day trip. They had had the Friday before off also (so a 4 day weekend) but Carissa's band schedule and practice for the Primary Presentation prevented us from doing any more than that. Anyway, we headed up north to the land of cheese (and fireworks). The drive was about 2 hours and we took country roads rather than the highway. We stopped at a park and played for awhile, then we stopped at a roadside pumpkin patch and picked out some pumpkins and then got attacked by bees. That almost sabotaged the whole trip. It did cause us quite a delay as we had to keep getting out of the car because we had discovered yet another bee trying to tag along. We went up to Cave of the Mounds. Our bee adventure made us arrive after the last tour had started so we opted to pan for gemstones and rocks. The kids had a great time and we topped it all off with dinner and desert at McD's. (Where else can you feed 6 for under $20)? We took the faster route home but all-in-all it was a good day.