Matthiessen State Park in Utica, IL that is. It's just past Starved Rock, which seems to be more popular. Matthiessen is much smaller, but just beautiful. It also has a lot less man-made areas than Starved Rock. There's much hiking to be done, not to mention water to get across by jumping on rocks. Justin, Kyle and I had been there last year with our neighbors. The boys really wanted to go back there with Jason so he could see it. We decided that autumn would be a perfect time.
It was a sunny day and about 60 degrees. We had planned to eat a picnic lunch. Due to a swarm of bees, we ate our lunch in the car. Not how we wanted to start the day, but after that everything was fine.
At the end of our day, prior to leaving Utica, we stopped at a gas station to fill up. Gas was only $2.97 a gallon down that way!
Feel free to click on the pictures to enjoy the fall scenery or see Justin and Kyle jumping across the rocks. Kyle took the picture of Jason and me. Not bad, huh?
2 comments:
Hey Carl...Good Job in taking Mom & Dad's picture!
Hey Kathy!
Pavlis here. I "stumbled" upon your blog when you commented on Amy's blog (Not the Matrix) a few weeks back.
Chrissy and I are members of the arboretum so we love to spend days just like this. I've never been to Matthessein State Park but it sure looks gorgeous! Looks like you guys had a great day. :)
Say "hi" to Jason for me!
Steve
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