Like last spring break, we decided to stay at home. Sunday morning, we said good bye to all the neighbor friends on Forest Trail. Both kids loved JCC's camp, yet I still looked for some ways to have a slightly different spring break.
I saw my friend Stephanie's photos with her family at Mineral Wells and knew Jackson and Norah would love it too. After some reading, I found there is a fossil park nearby. We decided to make it a long trip with the state park and fossil park on our last day of spring break.
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| They loved climbing the big boulders along the trail |
Lake Mineral Wells State Park has an outdoor rock-climbing area that we just discovered researching this trip. Our two kids did lots of climbing and we finished at the Penitentiary Hollow. I heard somebody spoke French and turned around -- It's JB rock-climbing! It's his first time here and our first. What a coincidence!
This park also has a well maintained bike trail system, a small section of sandy beach and a boat rental place. We checked out the camping area and planned to come back some day.
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| Starting our fossil dig |
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| From Pennsylvania Period |
Fossil park is about 20 minutes west of the state park. We brought our garden tools and a bucket. But there is so much abundance of the fossil, no tools are needed. And the fossils are so small, they fit in a small ziploc bag and no bucket is needed either. We all had a blast picking out these tiny fossils everywhere on the valley floor. This park used to be where city pulls the dirt fill from and it was turned into a public park after they realized how many fossils were here.
Jackson and Norah had so much fun digging. I told them about the diamond park in Arkansas. Now Jackson is very interested in going to the diamond park.
It's a fun day ending our 2021 spring break.
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