Road Trip With the Robinson's

Sunday morning I headed out with the Robinson's on a road trip to Spring Mill Park in Mitchell, Indiana to have a picnic lunch, go swimming, and explore the park.  I had the middle row of the highlander to myself, and these two loud, crazies were right behind me :/

We stopped and got some drinks and snacks on the way up and then stopped at KFC for some fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, slaw, and biscuits for our picnic lunch.  

After lunch we headed to the pool that's inside the park.  It was a nice big pool, and even though it was busy, you never felt crowded.  What I did feel was cold water!  Brr!  I like my pool water to feel like bath water, not ice water!  

After swimming, the girls and Heather and Bowen played a little volleyball.  Me?  I sat at the car and then walked around looking for those hummingbirds to take pictures of.  I must of been looking down at something else cause when I looked up, I saw Heather laying on the ground and everyone was  gathered around her.  Below you can see her grass burn wound!  Sorry I missed the fall down and didn't get any pictures to document!  LOL!!

After the volleyball game, we drove to the parking lot near the village and got out and explored some.  The girls enjoyed walking in the creek water and I enjoyed taking their pictures...

...that is I enjoyed taking their picture until this happened across my path.  I let out a scream and a fat girl took off running!  Blah!  Gag!  Ugh!  Nothing creeps me out more than a snake.  Ugh!  I'm shuddering just thinking about it.  Ugh!  Of course once the initial shock and scare were over, I had to run back and take a quick picture of it before hightailing it out of there again!

After we left the park, we headed towards home but not before making a dozen more stops (ice cream, gas, cheap donuts, pizza, smores ingredients...haha!!), and one of them being at the West Baden Springs Resort.  Heather said the last time they were there, the resort was building a little trolley car and tracks that went around the property.  We stopped to see it and then took a ride on it.  The ride was complimentary and actually took you from the West Baden Springs Hotel to the French Lick Hotel and back.  A little something fun to do.  

Hanging around the grounds of the hotel were ALOT of deer.  I think I counted about 8 or 10 on one side of the road, and about 14 more on the other side of the road!  I heard someone say that just stay there on the property and visit.  

The ride home was definitely not as relaxing as the ride up there.  These two were in the back seat singing very loudly the entire way home.  Oh my poor head!  Haha!!  

I'm thankful for good friends and good memories!  Until our next road trip adventure...

Crazy Bee Sting!!

On Monday when Shawn and I were at Spring Mill State Park, I got stung by a bee under my arm.  We had pulled over to read the map of the park and a bee got in the car.  We shewed it out and I went on about reading the map.  The next thing I knew I felt something sting me in my underarm and looked down and the bee was stuck in my sweater.  I finally got it out of the car and took my sweater off and saw where it had stung me.  I thought I would be ok, but went ahead and took a Benedryl anyways. 

This is my arm just shortly after I got stung (ignore the fatness of the arm!)...

And this is my arm Tuesday morning on my way to the allergist...

It was crazy!  It was red, swollen, itchy, had fever and ached!  The allergist gave me a steriod to take and it immediately started feeling better.  I so do not want to be stung by a bee ever again!!

Day trip to Spring Mill State Park

On Monday, Shawn and I took a little day trip to Mitchell, Indiana to Spring Mill State Park. I had heard it was a nice park to visit and they have an Inn there that has a yummy lunch buffet.  It was about two hours away to the north west.  We left the house at 10:00 a.m., which would of put us there right at noon, just in time for the lunch buffet.  We went the longer way and took the two lane roads through some little towns I had never been through before.  We stopped at the Gasthof Village in Montgomery along the way cause I had never been there, and I wanted to see some Amish people.  For some reason, I am intrigued by Amish people.  We weren't eating there, but stopped to go to the flea market and look through their bakery.  When we were in the bakery, I noticed the time on the clock and realized that they were an hour ahead of us, which, because of us looking through the flea market and the one hour time change, put us getting to the Spring Mill Inn after the lunch buffet.  We decided to eat lunch at the Gasthof Village then and it was yummy!  Of course I ate too much and was stuffed!  We left there and headed to the park.  We drove around the park a few times cause we seemed to be getting lost.  :(  We stopped at a few of the different stops inside the park and finally found our way to the Pioneer Village.  We parked the car and got out and walked around to look at all the old buildings and take pictures.  We got there late, so alot of the buildings were already closed and the mill wasn't running.  We did walk a little trail in the woods up to a cave, but it was closed.  After that we headed back to the car and I assumed we were going home.  However we ended up going to the Inn for the dinner buffet.  Neither one of us was really hungry, but we had driven all that way and eating their buffet was one of our main reasons for going.  The food was good, but I couldn't finish my meal because I was still miserable for lunch.  Plus I got stung by a bee earlier in the day and my arm was killing me.  (The bee sting incident will have it's own post!)  After supper, we drove home, both sleepy and miserably full!  We had a good time on our trip, despite the bee sting, and I can't wait for more little day trips again!  Below are quite a few pictures from our day's journey.

One of the main roads inside the park. 

 I know this would be a beautiful fall picture in about a month or so!.

Me before we started our trot through the park.



The old mill, however it wasn't running when we were there.



There was a couple trails in the park and this is one of the smaller ones that goes up to Donaldson Cave.  They said it was a small hike, so we decided to check it out...

...only to get to the top and see this sign...

...so back down the trail we go.  There was beautiful scenery though!

The Inn at Spring Mill

And me stuffed and wore out from the day!