Roadtrip Reflection

The trip to Iowa was a lot of good times, but it really feels good to be back home. There is just something magical about sleeping in one's own bed. It was fun for the three of us to get together, although clearly times have changed a lot. It's been 5 years since high school (I suppose it's been 6 for Candace and Meghan but you get the point) and we've all kind of gone our own directions. North, south, and east, to be specific. Haha. It is nice to know that we're all still good friends despite the changes that come with growing up.

One of the highlights was visiting Ledges State Park. I had never heard of this Park, but it is beautiful. Apparently, long ago, glaciers had carved some amazing walls of sandstone. There are many tree covered hills that look enchanted. (I thought of Narnia.) In the bottom is a peaceful little creek that winds around the area and criss-crosses the road in several places. We walked along the creek and hiked some. It was over 100 degrees that day, and Meghan slipped and fell down quite hard on a rock in the creek, so we didn't stay too long. (Sorry Meghan, at least I don't have a picture of it.) If the weather had been more agreeable I'm sure that we would have stayed and explored more shaded, but sometimes ridiculously steep trails.

The afternoon reminded me of my childhood in the country. There will be a post on this later.