Serpent mounds

We woke up first thing on Monday morning and ate breakfast.  We opened the windows to try to let some cool air in (although we weren't very successful- it was very muggy and not too terribly cool) before we left on our adventure for the day.  It took about an hour and a half to drive out to the mound.  It was interesting to read the plaque and see how this place was made a historical monument in something like 1885.  Pretty cool.  Once we got there, we climbed a big tower so that we could over look the serpent mound.

The thing curved around either way as you looked down.  The tower that you climbed up was kind of like the towers that they use for marching band only just slightly bigger.  Our family filled most of the standing room up there.  :)

After we looked at the over look, we walked around the big snake.  It is only about as high as Evan, so not all that tall.  From there, we took a hike down a ravine to a creek close by.  There really wasn't much else to do there, so after looking around for an hour and half or so, we loaded back up and headed home.  We saw a sign on the way for home grown watermelons and tomatoes and since the majority of our garden served to feed the deer and rabbits this year, we decided to stop and check it out.  It was a few miles off the main road.  We got a big watermelon for $1.25, and 20 lbs of canning tomatoes for $10.  Up here in the part of the country there are lots of Amish people.  On the way back down the small road, we saw 3 teenage Amish girls out riding scooters together.  We passed one of their houses where we could see the buggy that one of the families used parked in a shed.  Kind of cool.  We headed back home, and stopped at the international market, Jungle Jim's since it was on the way home.  We came home to find that our house hadn't gotten nearly as warm that day since it had been all closed up with the curtains closed while we were gone.  It only got to 82 inside.  I took the bigger kids swimming while Barth kept Katelynn at home.  :)  We had a grand time and got nice and cool to come home and go to bed!  Overnight we had a cool front come though!!!  Thank goodness!  Today was much nicer.  We had the AC repair guy out this morning.  He said that we had a leak in the line, so he repaired it with some sealant.  Since we had almost no coolant left in our unit, he filled it all the way back up!  It wasn't cheap, but I am glad to have it all fixed back up!!!  Today was such a nice day that we didn't even need the air.  It is supposed to get warm again this weekend, so I am sure that I will be glad that we got it fixed.  The days are coming to a close when we will need the air conditioning though.  Fall is just around the corner here!  And that means that it is time for birthday season here at our house!!!  :)