Little River Canyon, etc.

On Friday, the four oldest children and I went with our homeschool group to Little River Canyon National Preserve.  We had a wonderful day- the weather was perfect and the teachers were excellent. 

We broke up into groups and had classes taught by park rangers.  This one was on carnivorous plants.
 

He opened up the leaf of this pitcher plants and there were dead bugs inside!

We learned a lot about the history of the Cherokee Indians in Alabama.  Ft. Payne was part of the Trail of Tears.    The cabin seen here is an actual cabin used by a Cherokee family before they were forcibly removed. 

They had a conquistador costume-

 

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There was a huge football game during lunch break-

Then we went on a long hike to see the canyon and water falls.  There has been a drought so the falls were not as big as usual. 

 Charlie found a million bugs while we hiked.  We kept having to tell him to "put the bug down and come on."  :)

 

 Some of our group-

It was a beautiful day! 

Saturday was the last day of church-league flag football.  They had the Dads join the older boys in their game.  It was a lot of fun!

 

Marc was recently trained to be an MC at church (Master of Ceremonies).  It was so sweet to see the three boys up there at Mass on Sunday. 

Weekend to be continued....  :)