When you have four kids, your house is full of broken electronics. I type this blog using a replacement keyboard and a replacement mouse and on a computer that has been in for repair already once this year. Russell has been known to show up places with my old camera around his neck looking like Jimmy Olsen - the camera being one his twin brother previously tossed into the sink full of water. So it is with that in mind that I send out a big "thank you" to Molly for giving me one of her old cameras, broken by one of her four kids, that just happened to be the same model as our broken camera. The formula went something like two broken cameras + $100 = one functioning camera. (In all fairness to our kids, I broke our camera this time.)
The photos that follow are from a Saturday morning sojourn to the Albany Mounds. When we discussed possible destinations over breakfast, Russell said he wanted to go hiking. Thomas liked the idea of visiting a site related to the American Indians. And I just finished reading The First Americans by James Adovasio and have been dying to visit one of the many ancient mounds that apparently surround us here in the Midwest. Archeologist have artifacts in the Albany area suggesting it has been continuously occupied for nearly 10,000 years. The mounds we visited were built 2000 years ago, when Jesus walked the earth I explained to the kids.
This is how all of our hikes start. Trust me, after we hiked for a half-hour out to the mounds, I had to carry them all back.
Here are the intrepid explorers in front of one of the mounds. Thousands of years old, it is completely overgrown and difficult to see in this picture. Other than the fact that the mounds rose too abruptly and too frequently to be natural formations, you could easily have walked right past them. Thomas was disappointed when we got there and realized we weren't able to go in. (I've clearly not read him the chapter about the barrow-wights in The Fellowship of the Rings. Burial mounds are not something you want to end up in, unless of course Tom Bombadil is nearby.)
Thanks again, Molly!
6 comments:
YAY!!! You have a working camera! I'm thrilled! : )
The photos are precious. I especially like the one of Lucia looking back over her shoulder while they run down the trail. Keep them coming!
great pictures! Yay for working cameras!
~Michelle
that last picture is too much. love you, friend!
I love you, too, Tesi.
very lovely!! cameras are a blessing to us in many ways :) love to you!
ps: how did you carry them all back? that's a lot of little ones!
We took one walk out to the mounds, and then I made three trips back to the car, each time carrying a different child. The others straggled, and each time I didn't have to go back quite as far. It worked and took about the same amount of time as the meandering stroll out there.
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