Hocking Hills

This week was one of Chuck's vacation weeks.  We took full advantage of the time together and did a lot of things around.  I wanted to see some fall foliage and googled good places here in Ohio and came across Hocking Hills.  It was so beautiful!  It is one of those places that you see on cool car commercials where they are driving through the woods.  We decided to hike to a place called Ash Cave.  I have never see anything like it.  I was a dunce and left my camera in the car...so you will have to deal with pictures from the internet. 

 
 

So you can see there is a little waterfall and it doesn't look like a typical cave that you would think of.  It was almost like a huge overhang but it was HUGE!  It was so cool.  I just am so mad I left my camera in the car.  You have to hike down to the bottom.  In the pictures you can see some stairs behind the waterfall.  I just about died going back up them!  Pregnancy and stairs are not a good combo...  It was a lot of fun though!  We went and ate at a Amish style restaurant called Olde Dutch Restaurant and had some potatoes and gravy and fried chicken.  It was delicious!  The rest if the week consisted of going to the zoo, shopping, and lounging.  It was relaxing:)  One day when we went to the zoo, we were literally one of 10 people there.  I guess when school gets back in session that the crowds die down a lot.  Penny finally got brave enough to touch the stingrays!  It was so funny!  We did her favorites and visited the goats to brush, and ride the carousel.  When we left we were all just quiet and walking and she turned up and looked at me and said, " I like the zoo."  Chuck and I just looked at each other and were like, did she just say that:)  It totally made our day.  We asked her why she liked the zoo and she said, " I ride the horsey's".  She has been making so much improvement on her speech.  She sometimes sings ring around the rosey and then tells me that she is going round and round in a circle.  She also has been very self entertaining with reading her books.  She LOVES to read and make up stories for the pictures. Pregnancy update is that this baby I think is super crunched.  I can't breath sometimes because I have enormous amount of pressure on my diaphragm.  She moves a lot even with limited room, so sometimes I can literally hear little tiny poppings when she really stretches.  I can't wait to see her, and also to sleep on my stomach again:)  Chuck starts back up work again tomorrow and we are all sad to see him go back.  I think Chuck most of all:)  Penny won't know what to do when she wakes up and Dad is at work instead of home, but oh well.  Vacations can't last forever..