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| Sometimes he gets carried away. He has finding "Big Foot" on his list. |
I had found information on balloon rides, and was thinking about going on one. But we were driving by the Elkhart Airport and saw a poster about taking an airplane ride. So this is what Ed decided he wanted to do.
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| Ed getting in. See the ladder he is climbing up on. Well when they got back, the ladder was over by the building. So the guy climbs out and he is walking over to get it. I ask him if he wants me to get it for him. So I pick it up and am walking toward him, only he is still facing the plane. I am almost to him when he turns around and cracks his shin on the ladder because he didn't hear me and didn't know I was there. Boy did I feel bad, I think he wanted to cuss but he held it in. That's what I get for trying to be helpful. |
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| Does he look like an Ace or what? |
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| The guy had told me he would do this so I could get a shot. Ed said just when the plane started to smoke he had touch a lever in front of him. He thought he had done something to make it smoke. |
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| Ed pulling the lever |
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| The "Red Baron" |
We took Cali, our granddaughter with us. We have really enjoyed our time here with her.
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| Ed and Cali |
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| I think we wore her out |
We spent a week camping with our son, daughter-in-law, and Cali up in Michigan at Bear Cave which is a Thousand Trails campground. We spent the week geocaching and had a great time. We hadn't done it in a long time and forgot how much fun it is.
For those who don't know what geocaching is, here is the definition off the web site: "Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location."
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| This cave is at the campground |
We went to Fernwood Botanical Gardens near Niles Michigan
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| There is a train inside the building |
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| And they have a train village outside in the garden |
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| Part of the train village |
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| The water wheel was one of the virtual ones |
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| There are trails everywhere and interesting things to see |
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| Some caches are virtual, they just lead you to something to see |
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| Angela,Cali, and Aaron resting The Garden is a great place to go |
Angela found this unique one, it is
shown below
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| You just never know what they are going to be |
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| This was the smallest one we ever saw, Ed found this one |
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| Ed and Cali decided they could only do so much walking. So sometimes they just stayed behind and enjoyed each other. They became our youngest and our oldest. |
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| We found a sand box and Cali decided that is where she wanted to stay. So Ed stayed and watched her while we did some hunting. |
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| While waiting for us, Ed taught Cali to walk on the tree stumps |
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| There are a couple of old houses in the garden |
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| Cali and Aaron checking it out |
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| They must be getting ready to do some restoration, it was in pretty bad shape inside |
Now I am getting ready to tell on us. We came in through the gate and we are driving down this road. Than all of us realize this doesn't look like a road we should be driving on. Ed backs up and we find a parking spot and we go look for a geocache. Well we had gotten a late start so we found one cache and we walked around and decided to leave.
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| The road we had been on was not really a road |
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| This was where we came in, but the gate was open and no one noticed the sign |
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| This is what it said, we had come by the parking lot and didn't even notice it. Plus you have to pay to be in the park. Well we hadn't stayed very long and were planning on returning the next day so we figured we would pay than. |
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| A couple of days later we were doing some more geocaching and came across this tank. The thing about geocaching is you never know what you are going to see. It's a great hobby. |
Happy Trails Love Ed and Lyn
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