My first time Caving! 6-6-2010

So this morning my friend Dan asked me if I would like to go caving today. I in my pre 4 mile run sleepy stupor agreed. I should tell you I really didn't know anything about caving so I really was blindly agreeing, I had no idea what to expect.

I went out ran my 4 miles very slowly I will add but hey I finished it and in a tiny way I kinda enjoyed it. Especially when I passed the sweet smelling honeysuckle that covers the trail.
**dear blogger I hate you at the moment. why wont you let me post pictures??***

I quit. I will try to finish this post another day when blogger decides to cooperate and let me post pictures.

Memorial Weekend

Memorial weekend I was supposed to go camping and climbing or canoeing...anyway that didnt happen. What did happen was a fun weekend driving around missouri trying to find a place that was nice to stay at and still had camp sites available. I honestly am not 100% sure where I actually ended up. I do know it was primitive camping as it was at the trailhead of a horse/hiking trail. The trail was called devils backbone and it was pretty neat (I think it is somewhere in the Mark Twain forest). The hike was maybe 4 miles long but once we got to the devils backbone (its a place where the trail is maybe 7 feet in width and a huge steep drop off on either side) my friend and I decided to go searching for rock..to climb :) We headed off trail and down the steep hill. It had rained the night before so the hill was slippery and with the steep incline that spelled dangerous especially when you are clumsy like I am. It ended up being a fun adventure no one got hurt and we eventually made it back to the original trail. My dog was happy because she loves being in the forest, she was also covered in ticks which her mother (me) was not so happy about. I failed to really take any pictures which is very odd for me, but I did see this crazy worm (millipede?)


In looking through the pictures to find that picture I realized I forgot to tell you about my turtle friend...he was cute and I liked him. I had to sit still for a long time for him to stop being shy so I could get a pic of him. Daphne gave him a good sniffing over to make sure he wasnt a bomb, that could have been why he was so shy about coming out of his shell.


here he is coming out of his shell



I also realized in looking through the pictures I forgot to mention this neat old water mill we discovered along the way. Here are some pics of it.