Break time is done!

I had a nice break, during which time Bob and I also took a nice vacation.  I'll be doing several posts on it, so I don't overwhelm you with too many pictures!  (And even separated, you may think I have too many.  It's hard to pare them down)  :)
We started our vacation on a Friday morning, leaving Michigan and driving down to Kentucky.  We were driving down to see our son who works on the Fort Campbell Army Base.  He was stationed there, and when he finished his army time, he was hired as a civilian to do the same job he had been doing in the army.  He works on Apache helicopters.
Along the way we stopped at the little town of Metropolis and I got this photo of Bob.

 My Superman!

It rained a lot along the way, but after about 9 hours of driving we got to our destination, and when we got out of the car, we saw this!


We spent the evening with Andy and his fiance, Nikki, and the next day they took us to Land Between the Lakes.

Land Between the Lakes is a 170,00 acre area in Western Kentucky and Tennessee.

This is called a Great Western Furnace.  It was used for melting iron ore and was built in 1854.  There is another one there, but it's in bad condition.

One of the best things there, were the wild animals.  There are elk but we didn't see any.  We did see a lot of buffalo though!  They came quite close to the car, and we stayed inside!

 I don't think I want to get any closer to this Mama!

They have a nature station where they take care of injured animals and birds.  Isn't this owl cute?

The hummingbird feeders were very busy!

 We had supper at Patti's Settlement, a nearby restaurant which is quite well known.  We had a yummy supper and were too full to try their famous mile high pie.

 There were animals to see here too, along with several little shops.

We also stopped at the nearby harbor before going back to Andy's place.  We had a nice evening there before having to say those dreaded good byes.  I've never been good at those, and still am not!

 The next morning we left bright and early - well not so bright I guess!  It was foggy, and then rainy.  It did clear up though.

We crossed several big bridges.

 At one point our GPS took us down a 2 track road that looked like it would end us up in a farmers field.  We were at a point that we couldn't just turn around, so we kept going and it turned out ok.

 In Missouri, we stated seeing a change in the landscape.  We also started seeing some very curvy roads and lots of steep hills.

We were happy to arrive at our Lodge, which would be our home in Eureka Springs Arkansas for the next 4 nights.


Stay tuned for more...