We are back to our starting point, waiting for another car to splash us. We loved the Ledges! 

We found a rock to jump off, which was pretty fun. Hendrix & I also enjoyed walking together.

We enjoyed the Ledges so much the first time around, we had to take Dad there & show him. This time we went with Aunt Liss, Hendrix & Marley. Mom & Hendrix didn’t want to carry their shoes, so they dropped them off on the side of the creek near where we parked. I, Wyatt,…

We played out back at Papa & Grandma’s quite a bit. Mostly looking for “Chippy”. We also had fun looking for frogs on the bridge.

And we topped it off with root beer floats. Yum!

We had fun playing with the water pressure. We would encourage each other to go close to the sprinkler & then one of us would turn it up as the others ran through. It was pretty fun!

We went to Aunt Lissa’s for lunch before going to the pool. It was an incredibly hot day, so we decided we should run through the sprinkler while we waited for Marley to wake up from her nap.

We went for a hike & it literally just went up & up & up steep stairs. We got to the top & there was an amazing view of the Des Moines River. Mom & her sisters used to canoe down that river every summer & she hopes that one day we can all do…

My shoes were flowing down stream & I had to catch them. The Ledges is a State Park just outside Boone that Mom grew up going to with Papa & Gunga. It was flooded and damaged in the Floods of ’93. It has been periodically re-opened, but had never been the same. Recently, they have…

We walked the creeks for quite awhile & had fun looking at minnows, climbing over rocks, & splashing around.