The kids wanted to bring their fire helmets to the fire station last time they visited, then Sam tried on the real thing.

Did you know that Blue Mound State Park has a 1200' line of rocks that line up with the sunrise and sunset in the spring and fall placed there long before whites came to the area? We would have loved to see it...the kids had different plans this trip. Sam insisted that we go to Papa's house to go camping, Joy was hungry and Gus was feeling lazy...win some, loose some...

We visited Blue Mound State Park by Luverne MN today...we sincerely hope that the boys are not playing in poison ivy...leaves of three let them be, well they had three shiny leaves growing in the crevise of some pallisades...we'll know tommorow morning!

Sammy on a rainy day...one of the few times he requested a picture.