Big adventures.
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Big adventures.
This is a little off topic from trucks, but we still had fun. The wife and daughter had a wedding shower to attend in Lincoln, NE yesterday. I went along and took the two oldest grandsons, ages 6 &4.
We spent about an 1 1/2 hours at Morrill Hall on the UNL campus looking at some great fossils and dinosaur and mammoth skeletons. They loved it!
Then we met the "guys"(escapees from the shower) at a friends farm for some testosterone poisoning.
The little guys got to run wild, catch frogs, shoot a .22 and for the older one a round through a .38, all with proper assistance. Shoot a bow and arrow(one arrow on top of the barn), rescue baby rabbits after the farm dog found a nest, crawl all over an old army truck, eat mullberries from the tree, and get all dirty and sweaty. There was a bunch of other stuff too, but they loved it.
Helping kids have those kinds of adventures is priceless. Beats the heck out of a game boy or Xbox.
We spent about an 1 1/2 hours at Morrill Hall on the UNL campus looking at some great fossils and dinosaur and mammoth skeletons. They loved it!
Then we met the "guys"(escapees from the shower) at a friends farm for some testosterone poisoning.
The little guys got to run wild, catch frogs, shoot a .22 and for the older one a round through a .38, all with proper assistance. Shoot a bow and arrow(one arrow on top of the barn), rescue baby rabbits after the farm dog found a nest, crawl all over an old army truck, eat mullberries from the tree, and get all dirty and sweaty. There was a bunch of other stuff too, but they loved it.
Helping kids have those kinds of adventures is priceless. Beats the heck out of a game boy or Xbox.
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They love dinosaurs and that stuff, so they were easy to entertain there. Just don't plan on spending a bunch of time at each display reading everything or you'll lose a kid. They will be long gone.
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We lived in an old 2-story farmhouse for a year while my parent's house was being built when I was 13 out in the middle of nowhere and I have to say that was the best summer of my life. Old barns and worksheds to explore, old cars from the 40's-50's, and plenty of stuff to hunt. Couldn't drink the well-water but we brought in jugs of drinking water from town, lol.
I hope that Jamie and I get a house out in the country in the next 10 years or so, that way our kids can grow up in an atmosphere like that. Can't beat it.......
I hope that Jamie and I get a house out in the country in the next 10 years or so, that way our kids can grow up in an atmosphere like that. Can't beat it.......
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Grandparants are the best. They get ta borrow the youngins fer all kinds of cool stuff then take um back home. Keep up the good stuff Del. Yer doin a great job!
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