Well, tonight is our last night in Cedar Rapids before starting the trek back home. Here's a little taste of what we've been up to this past weekend...
Saturday morning Aaron's cousin John took us out on a nature trail. This froggy fella marked the beginning of the trail.
John is a great photographer! Most of these photos he took. It was nice to get a break from being paparazzi for a little while.
We walked through some amazing, colorful fields. Loaded with bugs! Unfortunately, the mosquitos made a meal of me.
A storm came through just a few weeks ago causing the Indian Creek to flood, and pushed this bridge several feet down the creek. Being the brave, intrepid explorers we are, we still crossed it!
I don't like bugs, bees in particular, so you'd be right in assuming Aaron took this pic. Not bad!
I had enough of the mosquitos by the time we were done with our walk, and booked it out of the nature trail as fast as my feet could carry me.
Later on, we headed to the park to attempt to fly some kites. There wasn't much wind, but John got his kite into the air for a little while.
Against John's and my recommendation, Aaron got really close to the geese to get this photo. Then he chased them. Luckily, seems like these geese were used to having people around and didn't attack like we thought they might.
In California, leaves don't "change color." They turn brown and fall off... sometimes. So I never knew that in other parts of the country leaves actually turn colors! This tree has a lovely case of autumn disease, leaving it half green and half red.We ended the day with some delicious barbecue, a nap, and a night of board games with John's friends! It was so much fun. We didn't go to bed until almost 3:00 a.m. and slept in late today. Then we took a tour of Cedar Rapids and met up with some of John and Aaron's extended family. Which brings us up to right now! We're sitting around the kitchen shootin' the breeze and listening to the cicadas and crickets. Pretty much the perfect ending to the perfect weekend.
2 comments:
Sounds like you are having so much fun!
wow! so the leaves change colors and still stay on the trees? That is weird compared to Ventura County where, as you know, the trees are stupid. Palm trees don't do anything cool. ! :(
Thats it, I can't take it anymore. I'm going on a little road trip next summer. I'm just green with envy. We're going to Washington and back. Going to, of course, take a bunch of exciting stops...so there! *raseberries*
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