The place in between

I am including yesterday's picture in this post... Nora and the flower. I took it at the playground in Paxton.

Today however, was a super packed day. We started by risking the lives of every one in our family, as I took both Henry and Nora to Purgatory Chasm. Actually, it went really well. Nora slipped once, that is all. They both loved it too. Henry was dying to climb into every nook and cranny that the place had, but he kept a good head too and didn't crawl into anything too foreboding. I was really nervous about Nora slipping into something that I couldn't get her out of.

For those who haven't been, Purgatory Chasm is a big...chasm... that is filled with tumbled down boulders. These boulders nicely stacked themselves haphazardly along the floor of the chasm and created tons of tumbled rock caves. Some of these go straight down into the abyss, directly beneath your feet. It was these that had me jumping to keep both Nora and Henry directly in sight at all times.

Henry took the scouting job and blazed the trail for Nora and I followed, hands wide open to catch any five-year-olds falling to their death. They checked out quite a few caves, and by the end, Nora was all too brave and was literally jumping from boulder to boulder... God help me.

While we were there, I kept noticing tons of police officers in the woods and along the chasm. I learned that they were looking for somebody while we were there, but it turns out that the person that is missing is only truly a missing person and not some serial murderer... whew. I hope they find him, that doesn't seem like the best place to be lost in. Although, today it would be tough to stay lost there. There had to have been a thousand people in that park. There were troops... troops! of kids from some YMCA. I cannot imagine taking a group of twenty or so ten-year-olds there and remaining sane. It was a great trip.

We met up With Sara McRell and her kids for bowling later at Bogey lanes in Spencer and then went to Dairy Queen... go Vacation!

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