We loaded in the (newly cleaned up!) Jeep yesterday afternoon and took off for a ride! This is a map of where we traveled (approximately, of course... Eric tends to like back roads).The stops:
1. From our house, we headed down towards the river. We stopped at U.S. Grant's birthplace in Point Pleasant (but they charged $ to go in, so we kept going).
2. Our next destination was the Chilo dam. Eric had been there Thursday night with a guy from
work (they were fishing) and said we should go back. There was a (free) museum, a neat-looking playground for the kids (but it was too hot to go on, to Audrey's chagrin... "play! play!"), some docks down to the river, and a telescope so you could see boats/stuff on the Kentucky side of the river. We spent quite a bit of time in the museum - there were some surprisingly interesting things to read/interact with/see. A girl working in the museum told us about a blueberry festival across the river, so our next stop was. . .
3. Augusta, Kentucky. We drove a bit down 52 to get to the Augusta Ferry.
Conner was certain he'd never been on a ferry before (I guess he doesn't remember going to Kelley's Island/Put-in-Bay when we was 6 months old!) and loved it. We didn't find the festival, so we went to the Augusta Pub (and played a little bit of indoor cornhole!) for dinner.
5. Back on 52, we went west (north?) until we came back to Chilo. (By this time the kids were getting tired - Conner'd conked out earlier and Audrey was enjoying her paci but wanting her blankie.) We stopped at the Chilo Dairy Bar, where Conner woke up for a messy messy ice cream cone.
6. Home! Approximately 5 hours after we left and about 90 miles, we made it. It was a fun trip and definitely bedtime when we got here.
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