After the caverns

After we finished the tour, we had some lunch and headed off to see some other sites. We had found a map at the gift shops that showed some neat places to see in the area, and decided to check two of them out. The first was a Butterfly Conservatory, and the second was a place where you could "mine your own diamonds" (okay, we know there weren't going to be real diamonds there, but we still thought it would be fun for the girls). When we got the Butterfly Conservatory, we found out that it would cost us $30 to get in ($30 to look at butterflies?!), and that they would be closing in just an hour, so we decided to skip that one. And, to add insult to injury, we found out that the diamond mining place was going to be closing in an hour as well, and that because of our excursion to the Butterfly place, we were too far away to get there before they would close. Bummer. So, we consoled ourselves by stopping at a sweets shop and buying some amazing fudge...



Doesn't it look yummy? The flavors were chocolate caramel nut, orange creamsicle, strawberry cream, maple brown sugar, rocky road and serious peanut butter. I protested when Lou wanted to buy so much (over a pound!), but let me tell you, I sure wasn't protesting about eating it! Oh my goodness was it delicious!



Next we stumbled upon the Mohawk River, and since Lou just happended to have some fishing stuff in the back of the van, we decided to have a picnic dinner along the river while we did some fishing!

The girls watched as Daddy set up the poles...

...and they looked for fish while they ate their dinner (bagels, cheese, yogurt and carrots - all eaten separately, of course!)

When we were done eating, all of us took turns trying to get some fish (Here's Josephine helping Daddy to "organize" his tackle box). I was the only one to catch a fish, but alas, just as I was pulling it out of the water, it flipped off the line and swam away!

So that is the end of Day #4 or our staycation. Tomorrow we are off the Thunder Island!