We had a really hot day, and I'm sure the kids were exhausted when they got home. But as a field trip planner, I have to say that this was a keeper. Land Between the Lakes is just beautiful. If we had known what to do and where to go, it would have been better coordinated. Now I've got the numbers and the information, and next time...We boarded the bus about 8:10, and started south. It would be a long trip and no stops until we got to the visitor's station in Land Between the Lakes. We crossed some really beautiful water on some really old and really rickety bridges, but the kids loved looking out into the water. They saw a huge nest built on a pole. There were two parent birds in it and probably some youngins we couldn't see from the bus.
We arrived at the visitor's station and planned the rest of our trip - "No, there weren't any beaches for the kids except..."
I was really disappointed.
We went down to the Homeplace, a farm estate that was representative of the 1850s.It was HOT. We toured the main house,
the work shop, the barns, the smoke house, th
e creek house, the singles house, saw pigs, oxen, horses, lambs, chickens and baby ducks.We ate near a stream that had mostly dried up for the season, but we went in anyway. Disappointment big time. Alex cut his foot, but we were prepared and patched him up. It was HOT.
Then we called all the kids together and said, "If you are packe
d up and on the bus in three minutes, we'll go to that swimming place we he
a
r of in the visitor's place. In 2. 5 minutes we were rolling again. The cove for swimming was cool, sandy and shallow enough to accommodate all our kids. We swam about 20 minutes in our clothes like real kids, and then we had a soda and some cookies and we took off for home.Next time, we will stop at the nature preserve and see a couple of other things as well.
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