Ohio Arrival
14 hours in the car is a long time for anyone, but for a three year old it is an eternity. But really, Isaac did very well. Mom planned a tiny surprise for every new state so he had something to look forward to, and we did do a lay over in Pittsburgh, but the final leg into Xenia was quite surreal. I hadn't done that trip, from Pittsburgh to Xenia, in probably fifteen years, maybe twenty. But the arrival was quite nice.
Isaac immediately found the raspberry bushes, almost certainly as P-Pa had planned it, and just like in Maine last August, he ate bushels of berries right from the shrub. Here are I-man and his grandpa looking for and eating raspberries:
We munched and munched and munched until there were no ripe raspberries left.
The next day we decided to go way back in time to the Ordovician time period. We went to Casaer's Creek and did some fossil hunting. At first Mom and Isaac thought Dad was crazy, but then after a few minutes they saw what I remember when I was a kid--tons of fossils. After an hour or so we had a heaping bag full of ancient treasures. Here is a particularly cool specimen:
How old is this little booger? It had been a fossil for more than 130 million years when the first dinosaur showed up. Pretty incredible.
As fun as the first two days were, we had even more fun the next two days. More on that next.
Isaac immediately found the raspberry bushes, almost certainly as P-Pa had planned it, and just like in Maine last August, he ate bushels of berries right from the shrub. Here are I-man and his grandpa looking for and eating raspberries:
We munched and munched and munched until there were no ripe raspberries left.
The next day we decided to go way back in time to the Ordovician time period. We went to Casaer's Creek and did some fossil hunting. At first Mom and Isaac thought Dad was crazy, but then after a few minutes they saw what I remember when I was a kid--tons of fossils. After an hour or so we had a heaping bag full of ancient treasures. Here is a particularly cool specimen:
How old is this little booger? It had been a fossil for more than 130 million years when the first dinosaur showed up. Pretty incredible.
As fun as the first two days were, we had even more fun the next two days. More on that next.