A Busy Fall

I've been so negligent about adding to this blog. I think work gets in the way. I am a teacher, and I'm always surprised at how much of my time is taken up with planning, meeting parents, evening school events, etc. This fall, my D.H. and I have been spending weekends exploring MN state parks. What a great way to get to know your state! The park system has two great programs that we enjoy completing - geocaching and the hiking club. Each state park has a multi-stage geocache with a critter card hidden in the final cache (we're up to 20 critter cards). It's just like a treasure hunt. The hiking club trails sure give us a good workout; we usually log between 4 to 5 miles on a hike. About half way through each hike the parks have a password that we record in our hiking club book (proof that we did the walk). We've hiked 50 miles so far, but we still have many miles to go... I'll be having the Thanksgiving dinner at my house tomorrow, so I was busy cleaning today. I know I'll enjoy the day, and I hope all of you do too.