I keep myself occupied and amused when I wait. Sometimes, it gets me in trouble.
This past Sunday, Steve and I kept occupied with an adventurous day. We started off with breakfast at The Golden Egg in Elkhart (our favorite breakfast place). Then we took off for Wabash, highly unprepared as it turns out. We just decided spontaneously to take off. We had no real agenda for the day. Steve has wanted to take me on a waterfall tour. I love waterfalls - I love the sound of rushing water - I love the sound of rippling water - I don't care how tiny the waterfall is - it fascinates me. In my mind, I'm thinking parks that have paths, you know, black top paths - not thinking at all about hiking. So I have a tank top and shorts and sandals on - not really and truly hiking garb. That was my second unprepared thing, the third was that we took no water bottles, no bug repellent - we just really were clueless.
The first waterfall we were supposed to see - we couldn't find it. The GPS told us where to turn but it ended up being someone's private driveway and not the road that "she" was telling us to turn on. We kept turning the car around and stopping to check the GPS. Finally, Steve was getting so frustrated that we decided to abandon that one and move on to the next. We had our windows down, we had the oldies playlist going, the sun was shining and we were enjoying our day.
More driving and then we found this little Preserve area that was supposed to be our waterfall stop. I wish I had taken a photo of it.....hahahah - it was a trickling stream back in woods. Beautiful flowers and wooded area - slapping at bugs and mosquitoes. Back in the woods - there is no air flow - no wind. Just mugginess and heat. I was trying to not get discouraged. But I do so enjoy nature walks and I love the sound of water. So it was only disappointing in that there was no "huge" falls.
We finally ended up at Salamonie Forest State Park. It is a beautiful place. The Dam is very very impressive. That was a huge "waterfall". hahaha We did some more hiking, again - no water and not hiking apparel and again no air flow and slapping at bugs and getting bit. Oh well - we finally asked some other hikers which way to go for the falls - there was supposed to be 3 of them. The one was just there but again it was just a trickle. They told us another one was not worth walk to because the river was very low. The third one was just a little ways down the path and in a cave. We finally found it because of hearing the water but we would have had to climb down a rather steep path and then realized that we would have to climb back up. I looked at Steve and he looked at me and I was like "I'm hungry - let's go eat lunch". hahaha - so much for our waterfall tour.
But as we were driving home - I realized once again this man loves me. We could have been very disappointed at the outcome of our trip. But as I told him, we were on an adventure. We did a lot of driving but we both love road trips. It was a beautiful day. My soul had been fed by the sounds and sights of water. Little creeks laughing and bubbling on its way over rocks and sand. Huge man made lake with a dam. The lake was quiet and still on top but knowing all the life happening underneath was quite enough imagination for me. Back in nature with the sights of flowers and sounds of birds and raccoons and the slapping of hands on bare skin as we swatted away pesky things.
We had a great lunch, where we laughed and "talked" with our kids as we sent them photos of us through the internet. Great memories.
Not a difficult day of waiting - rather enjoyable.........
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