Camping at the Creek

This Father's day weekend was dedicated to a camping adventure with the Painter crew at McCormick's Creek SP.  It had been far too long since we had busted out the tent.  Just 3 Hackneys on this trip as Aaron has his own job and schedule now.  Still, the car was packed to the gills with supplies for the weekend trek.  (Not sure how we managed to pack everything in our old car with 4 people!)  The forecast was calling for highs in the 90's, but no rain....we will manage.  It definitely was a hot one, but the evenings cooled down a bit and the creek and waterfall where we spent quite a bit of time were refreshing. 

Rachel and Hayden spent their time pulling fish out of the creek.

And there was plenty of time for this type of activity!

Hanging out at our own personal movie theater 

All in all (in Dusty's words) a successful camping trip. Which by his definition was not a lot of bugs, not getting cold while sleeping and no major injuries!

Caching Cousins

Last year we had taken Makenna and Carson geocaching with us and proceeded to grab most of the caches in Flora.  They both had a great time so I promised them that sometime Aunt Heidi would take them out caching again.  This trip to Illinois was a great time to take them so we put "Geocaching Adventure with Aunt Heidi" on the schedule.  On the way to Flora we swung by the Moonshine store for a Moonburger.  I had heard people raving about them so we decided to see what the fuss was all about.  It did not disappoint.  A pretty good burger!

The original intention was to geocache some back roads from Moonshine to Flora but that proved to be problematic!  It took several attempts to even get over to a main highway

We decided not to press our luck, but our new route took us past the "Mug Tree".  Rachel and I had struck out finding the geocache located here earlier.  Today we were vindicated.

On to Flora.  Milo the puppy is a growing ball of fur.  He loved all the attention Rachel gave him.

Our day with the cousins started out with a run to some of the local Little Free Libraries.  We restocked them with some of Makenna and Carson's books.  Good deed is done for the day!

After lunch, off to geocaching.  We started with a series that was located along the old abandoned highway along US 50.

We were 3 for 3 but then had to leave the last 2 of the series for later due to some bridge construction.

The rest of the caches took us along backroads into Noble.

We then headed to Olney to reward the crew with some ice cream

After a successful day of caching we took in Carson's ballgame.  Carson declared that geocaching was more fun than TV.  I consider that a win!