Carmel 2021, Part 3

 

On Friday, my parents, Andy, most of the kids, and I went to Cool Creek to go for a creek walk. Joey wasn't feeling well, so he stayed home to rest. We left Michael and Rachel home with him and the two little ones.

Cool Creek is a beautiful place with lots of little trails, and it's all shaded by trees. It's such a nice place to walk...

especially when you walk down the middle of the creek.

The Gallo kids and my parents had explored this area before and found this little "boat."

                       

This little guy was in his element playing in the creek. He really loved picking up rocks and throwing them.

At one point he held up a rock that he found and Andy told him to "chuck it." Luke turned to my Dad (whose name is Chuck), yelled "Chuck," and showed him the rock. So this is them both "chucking" rocks.

There was this great nature center at Cool Creek with lots of really neat information that we visited after our walk. Ellie did this tic-tac-toe trivia game and won these little bees for all the kids.

When we got back, Joey was feeling much better. He taught Ben this card came called "Magic: the Gathering."

Rachel had fun doing Ellie's hair, which thrilled Ellie.

That night Rachel found my mom and Joey getting James ready for bed. So sweet.

Friday night was also the night of Andy's first Phish concert. He had lawn tickets for each concert, so he got there early to get a good seat. He always grabbed a sub sandwich at Jimmy Johns for dinner on the way and packed a book and a towel to sit on. The amphitheater held 25,000. He had a blast!