A Day away

Last week Bob and I took a drive to Indiana. We went to Shipshewana, Amish country and spent the day there.

As we got near, we started seeing Amish farms, with lots of sheep, horses and cows.

We stopped at the Amish grocery store, and enjoyed seeing the horses and buggies in the parking lot.

There were lots of Amish people on bikes.

Shipshewana is really decorated for Fall.  All over town they decorated hay bales.

And look at these cute pumpkin scarecrows!

They were so creative!

We even took an Amish buggy ride. I was surprised that the Amish would do this, but it was fun to ride the buggy and talk with this Amish man.

This is an Amish school house. If you look on the left of the picture, you can see all the kids bikes.

These horses are pulling a piece of farm equipment.

This clothesline is connected to a pulley that pulls the clothes high up to dry.

As we left, we enjoyed this scene with buggies and bikes on the road.

We had such a nice day, and ended it with a very good Amish meal. We went home with full stomachs!

Some fun with Cassie and Connor

Last week we had a fun Saturday with Cassie and Connor. We started with a walk down to the neighbor who is selling pumpkins. It's where we went the week before with Alaina and Ruby, so we had to do the same for the younger ones.

It's a big decision for little kids!  But here is Cassie with the one she chose.

Here's Connor with his!  We walked down with a wagon, so we didn't have to carry them home.

Then we went on another adventure.  There's a park about 20 minutes from our house that has a huge slide, built into a hill. It was a beautiful day, perfect for a drive and some fun outside.

Check out this slide!  Cassie said "It's the biggest slide I ever saw!"

Heather went down with Connor.

Cassie wasn't sure at first, but once she went down once, she was all about doing it again.

Connor had an unfortunate ride down this slide, but he was soon up and playing on some of the other equipment.

This beautiful stream borders the park.

And next to it was a little free library!  So the kids found some books to look at.

We took a little walk along a trail.

and did a little more playing. Cassie had to go down the big slide one more time before we left.

We thought it was a great place to spend some time and decided that Bob and I would go back and hike some of the trails there too.

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