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6/26/2014

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PictureBrooks at the Indian Village.
Thursday was another all-day set of adventures for this group of non-stop boys. After leaving our Waynesboro hotel we headed an hour closer to home for our first stop – Natural Bridge Park. After a short hike we arrived at the bridge, which is truly a natural wonder. It’s hard to show it in pictures, but they will at least give you an idea of what we saw. From the bridge we hiked another few hundred yards to a “Monacan Indian Village” which was a recreation of an area tribe that had lived in this region. The interpreters made it interesting and we enjoyed learning a bit of history. We dined in the park’s Summer House café by the river, which offered sandwiches (hamburgers, chicken, vegetarian, etc.), before driving a couple of miles to the Natural Bridge Caverns. Here the boys had a guided tour down into the depths of Eastern America’s deepest cavern. It wasn’t a particularly large cavern, but fun just the same. Boys who have never been in a cavern were particularly impressed.


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Next up was our trip to Virginia Safari Park, a large drive-through and walk-through live animal exhibit. We loved it. Lots of animals would come right up to our van windows looking for a free handout. The camels were especially funny as they would attempt to grab the feed bucket right out your hands. This happens so frequently that a park sign warns of this occurrence and actually says, “it’s okay” if they do steel your bucket.

The walk through part of the park was just as fun and boys especially enjoyed feeding the birds.

After our Thursday activities we headed to our Abingdon hotel and walked to dinner at a pizza place for a late-evening dinner.

It was another good day. We’ve had nothing but perfect weather so far on this trip. The only rain we had was driving through a fifteen-minute storm before we reached our first hotel.


Right: Peter feeding a bird with a feeding stick.


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