Starve Rock Extravaganza

Now back to our spring break rerun. Geez we're a little behind. Soon we'll be updating our spring break story while we're into the summer. By now we've had two different sets of visitors; the Dilbecks and Lawheads and then only a few weeks after that my sister came to visit (Kindra). We have plenty of pictures from that so we need to get to crackin so I can post about those too. 

Over spring break we went to this really cool place called Starved Rock. Our super generous professor and his wife from Moody had us house sit for them, and let us use their car the whole time they were gone. That was such a treat. We went all over. This place is only about two hours out of Chicago. It's basically known as the only place in Illinois with any type of hills (hahaha). Needless to say, the 500 foot elevation wasn't really doing it for me. But it was still pretty and we got to hike, eat, take pictures, and enjoy one of the few sunny days we've had out here since the end of the summer/beginning of the fall seasons. 
There were a lot of great sites to see while we hiked around. That is the River.

Whose that handsome man

There were a lot of waterfalls that you could hike to. We saw two of them. When you come after summer time they're usually all dried up so it was cool to see them running. They're not too big though so we walked around them and behind them. We're standing inside of a big overhang and behind the waterfall in this picture.

 

No matter where we go he finds somewhere to surf

 We even saw a random field full of Turkeys. We thought of you dad leih. Later on I had a long conversation about the turkeys with him and the one time he took Kindra and I turkey hunting and we slept in the back of his truck on a mattress. Back in the day when we were small enough to all fit back there. We also ate spaghetti that we had cooked over the fire. I remember thinking that was the best part because we didn't get to see any turkeys. You have to be really quiet for turkey hunting. I don't think we were. :)

All in all it was a really fun trip and super good to get out of the city for a day and just be in the sun. We had a great time. We even got to check out the hunting lodge up there. There ya go dad now we know where we'll stay when you come. :)