Voss Vaca 2020 - Day 9 - Shawnee National Forest - Garden of the Gods

Sorry for having to split day 9 into a couple of different posts!  I just had added a lot of pictures to that last post, and put a lot of time into it throughout the day, and didn't want to lose it all.  Let me tell you, that's one surefire way to get me to stop blogging for the day, or several, is to lose everything after putting an hour straight into making a good post.  I know I should use a better site, but I've had this blog for so many years, I just can't bear to part with it. 

So, as I mentioned in the last blog, at Garden if the Gods there were tons of people.  With the exception of a few pictures, and once we're accidently got onto the longer trail where there were fewer people, we had or masks on the whole time.  Say what you will about masks, but we wrote them religiously throughout this trip and now we're 10 days into our quarantine after returning home and none of us are sick.  That's not bad, if you ask me!  And the post-vacation quarantine was our own idea and choice.  I wish everyone would practice being cautious like we are, and maybe this thing wouldn't be getting as out of hand....   But this isn't the place for my lectures...

The cliffs were beautiful and terrifying.  The children felt invincible and I was an extremely nervous Mama.  I think this stop was one of Michael's favorite stops on the whole trip.  It was really good! And now we're have Illinois on our map!  ❤

This is what our Illinois picture would have looked like if someone hadn't offered to take one for us.  ❤

I'd say he did a pretty good job! 

Not anyone we know, but I wanted this panoramic and he wasn't coming down, so he's just in it. 

Tired boy