Happy Fourth of July!

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Dan and I decided to get out of the city and enjoy nature for the Fourth of July. We packed a lunch and bottles of water and headed out to Starved Rock park in Utica, IL. It was a little over an hour of a drive and we were there. Good thing I insisted on checking the map as we might have been headed out on Hwy 88 instead of Hwy 80 and in that case we would have had to have a typical yelling match on who was right! But in any case, we made it.

The dogs were extremely excited to get to go hiking again and could hardly wait for us to eat our lunch. Then we headed out on the trails. It was really fun to be out there and we enjoyed the change of activity for the day. We were a little worried that we wouldn't get to go since it has rained for the past 5 days straight. Of course we might have been able to make it a little further had we brought along the extra water we left in the car... but 3 hours of hiking isn't so bad for a couple of city rats.

We hope you all had a nice Fourth of July!