Yesterday, Tina asked me to take a vacation day from work and go on one of our last trips of the summer with the children. She had heard of this park that wasn't too far away so we decided to give it a try. The park was about 40 minutes from our house and we kinda got a late start (around 12:30).
Once we pulled into the park we stopped and ate a picnic lunch we had packed for ourselves. I was starving by the time we got there so it made sense. Then we hit the little nature center at the park. It was kinda small but neat none-the-less. They had several snakes behind glass (which is the only way I like to see them), they also had several fossils, and a bee hive behind glass where I was very impressed that my children knew that the queen bee had a red dot on her head. It amazing that their education has left them with such wonderful knowledge about so many things.
After the nature center we made our way to the fossil beds. This was a somewhat dry stream bed that ran for quite a long while that had layers of broken shale in which were all sorts of fossils. The best part is you could take it with you so we have lots of fossil bearing rocks around the house right now. We spend an hour scouring for neat fossils. We also saw huge fish in the stream, several snakes, and interesting water features. Unfortunately with lots of loose shale and a wife with a bum ankle she ended up hurting herself just a might.
After the fossil beds we made our way to the beach for swimming in a large man made lake. We laid out a blanket and all climbed into the water. It was amazingly warm and clean. The kids had a blast. Tina and I waded in for a bit as well, and then got out and chilled in the sun on the blanket. I started by reading a few chapters in a book recommended by my friend Rob. Then I just luxuriated in the sun and did something I rarely do; I did some hardcore sunbathing. I should have put the sunblock on a bit earlier though, as I now have a slightly pink appearance. I'm not really burned, just a bit pink.
Anyhow, it was a great time had by all the Savage clan, and we will definately mark that park down on our list of places to go back to when we have time. It also had lots of other activities we plan on attacking out next time out which included, horseback riding, mountain bike rentals, archery range, paintball course and some I'm sure I forgot about already.
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