On the way home, while driving through a particularly windy and mountainous part of West Virginia, we played the "O, Brother, Where Art Though?" soundtrack. There was something so cool about listening to some mountain music while taking in the beautiful sights. It was a fantastic weekend and we can't wait until the next time we go.
We took a nature walk at an historic park close to their home. This is Tim, me, Owen, and Noah.
This is the best we could get for a family picture. I like Cameron's thoughtful pose.
Noah and Alec eye each other's pacifiers.
At the park, Sycamore Shoals, they were having a "live museum" with many fun things to do and learn. Cameron and Owen tried their hand at the game "Going to Boston." Surprisingly, they beat their opponent the first time they played! I think the old man was in shock because he asked to play again. We also got to see a duel acted out over some cheating during a card game.
On the way home we stopped at my in-laws' home for the night. We look fairly refreshed despite the fact that by this time we had spent only 1 of 4 days NOT travelling and had a horrible night of sleep due to Noah not sleeping well....actually, at all.
3 comments:
I was in Tennessee around the same time. It was a welcome break from the weather, wasn't it?
dmarks - The weather was a great break. Kind of depressing to come back to the cold weather here! We have been to the Meyer May house in GR, but are trying to plan to do the Wright Housewalk in Chicago in May. Have you done it?
The other Wright house in Grand Rapids is the Amberg House. However, the accepted view on it is that it is not actually by him, but someone who worked for him. Here's a web site about it:
http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Michigan/Amberg_House/amberg_house.htm
It's still worth going to see, and it is very close to the May house (a half block away, I think?)
I've wanted to go on the Wright Plus house walke for years:
http://www.wrightplus.org/wrightplus/wrightplus.html
but have never made it. However, I managed to spend a couple of hours in Oak Park last summer and took pictures as fast as I could.
There are several Wright houses at Whitehall near Muskegon, but most of these are "undistinguished" in my view. I'd say it's definitely worth a trip to Okemos, east of Lansing, to see the 4 that are located there.
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