Hodgenville.... birth place of Lincoln

The little boys and I met our friends the Shoups at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Park. They are moving to Oklahoma in 2 days and we wanted to see them before they left. The park was beautiful, as was the company. The kids all earned junior ranger badges, they even made little Mark an honorary ranger, he was so happy to get his badge :) The kids worked very hard, this one was one of the harder books we have completed.

The Sunken Spring was very cool! We walked down the stairs to the spring and about half way down the temperature dropped. It felt very nice because it was hot today!

After we left the park we stopped in downtown Hodgenville and had ice cream. They had a cool statue of Lincoln in the middle of a roundabout. Then we stopped by Knob Creek Farm, the boyhood home of Lincoln. They moved from Sunken Spring farm to Knob Creek. They left Knob Creek when Abe was 7 years old.

Sunken Spring

Jacob, Hannah, Michael, Sara Kate and Mark.

Working Hard!!

Knob Hill Farm

Hiking in the Gorge......4-21-11

We drove to Red River Gorge to go hiking. I took the wrong road but we found a nice hike anyway. We took Grey's Arch trail, it was suppose to only be a fourth of a mile but it ended up being over a mile at least. We walked for a long time but never got to the arch and the name of trail changed so we turned back. We stopped by Miguels Pizza for lunch. We brought Diesel with us and he loved the hike and the pizza bones at lunch :)