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Afternoon adventure: Etowah Indian Mounds

April 24, 2020 /

This is not the first time that I share an outing to the Etowah Indian Mounds. After 6 weeks of walking around our neighborhood, I decided it was time to walk at the nearby state parks. Our neighbor told me that the mounds were open and that that while the building/museum was closed, this historical site was open to the public free of charge. We have been once or twice as a family but we usually walk at the state park because it is free apart from a minimal parking free while the Indian Mounds charges admission.

So I told my boys we were going for a walk somewhere different, packed a snack and waters and we headed out. The weather was perfect right at 70 degrees. There were some people there but it wasn’t crowded and you were able to walk without really encountering people but a few times. Large paths have been mowed around the site and between the mounds (there are 3).

We climbed to the top of the tallest one without holding onto the rails. Funny how our conversations and habits/behaviors are so influenced by Covid 19!

I had all of us wear hats: we are spending so much time outdoors and I often forget about sunscreen so we are trying to be conscientious about protecting our faces from the sun.

This is such a beautiful place to walk and very peaceful (apart from my 2 year old’s tantrum in the middle of our time there). We sat by the river for a while after looking for and finding the snake someone had warned us about while we were walking.

Can you see it behind me? We actually first saw it climbing out of the wood box and at first thought it was a small snake until we saw it crawling out: pretty long snake!

One of my favorite things here are the fields of wild flowers. I took quite a few pictures of them and just enjoy their beauty.

Being able to go on walk and enjoying the outdoors has been a wonderful blessings these past couple of months. Apart from a tornado warning scare a couple weeks ago, this spring has been one of the nicest springs I can remember. The weather has been pleasant and cool, we have many sunny days and I feel like the pollen season wasn’t as long lasting as other years.

I have been grateful for this. Summer gets very hot and humid and going outdoors then is not very enjoyable unless you are in the pool. So we sure are taking advantage of the weather right now.

The day following our outing, my oldest asked to go to the state park that is about 10 minutes from our house. When your teen asks you to do something outdoors, you jump to the occasion. So we went for an easy walk there with my youngest. We had a nice time together and might share those pictures next week.

I will leave you with this little cuteness! Very proud of this little boy with his potty training and sleeping in his big boy bed. I feel that with him being the 4th child, I have done everything a little later with him and that might have been better in some ways. He is transitioning to being a big boy very well! Of course, apart from his daily tantrums: I feel like he has a lot more of those than his brothers did!

A bientôt!

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