An Indian Cave

Unrelated to the Indian cave...Wally just loves building with his blocks. He was quite proud of his stairs. Wally always wants "to go where we've never been before." So, in mid-October on a beautiful afternoon, we found a new trail near the Coralville Lake. I found this tree impressive, and we even got to duck under it to follow the trail to the lake.

At the lake, Wally enjoyed throwing rocks into the water.

Joel and I had more fun looking at the fossils. There were even pieces of coral (hence Coralville) shaped like Christmas trees.

As mentioned in an earlier blog, Wally loves his Bible stories. I guess there are some pretty fun ones. Here, he is demonstrating how his staff, like Mose's, can turn into a snake when he throws in on the ground and turns back into a staff when he grabs the tail.

We found a shelter along the trail that we of course had to try out. And found a log to walk across over a little water.

We finally made it to the cave. Wally thought it was pretty cool, but was concerned about the lack of a door. So, we set to work on building a wall for the door to be in.

Of course, Mom got into the building too. Pretty sure I wouldn't want to spend an Iowa winter in that cave!

That hike was probably our favorite hike thus far in Iowa, maybe because of the beautiful fall weather or maybe because it was actually a single track trail more like we were used to in Montana.

I know that I posted this picture before, but I love it. Chronologically, after the Indian cave is when Wally got his glasses.