Kentucky Recap

Onto a recap of our adventures. We left Sunday morning and headed to southern Illinois to visit the Gillman family. After a nice lunch and letting Mike run around it was on toward Indiana where our trip was quickly brought to a halt due to HORRIBLE traffic. It took us over 2 hours to go 20 miles. We eventually got up to speed and stopped at a hotel in a random town in Indiana. We had to carry Mike kicking and screaming from the hotel pool after his fingers started to look like raisins. Monday morning we took a quick trip to Lincoln State Park then were on our way to Kentucky. After arriving at the wrong cabin (wrong directions) we made our way to the Wildcat cabin and happily settled in. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. We spent our time exploring the Daniel Boone national forest by visiting Grey's Arch, Tower Rock, Rock Bridge Arch, Whistling Arch and Chimney Rock. Brad tried his luck at fishing and was really upset that he had left his fly rod at home. Mike adamantly refused to nap so he would generally fall asleep in the car between hikes and crash at night. For my birthday dinner we found a small mom and pop pizza place in a town about 30 miles from our cabin then celebrated with a My Little Pony cake back at the cabin. Ryan was an angel (per usual) the entire week and would pass out as soon as I put him in the pouch carrier for our hikes.

The car was packed and we were ready to go.  Sam was making sure we didn't forget her.

Our cabin

Brad and Mike on the hike to Grey's Arch

Mike bouldering on one of the smaller boulders at Tower Rock

Whistling Arch.  Mike kept saying "Ta Da I found it!!!"

At the Rock Bridge Arch trail head (the name of this one bothers me it can't be both a bridge and an arch...for the record this is the only true bridge in the area).