Our grandsons had fall break from school giving them a nice four day weekend. On Friday the boys were over for the day, the weather forecast called for rain all day, so what could we do that would be fun but keep us dry. I spent a little time on Google first thing in the morning and came up with a plan. We headed for downtown Fort Wayne and paid a visit to the Firefighters Museum and then headed next door to the main branch of the Allen County Library, a favorite place all the boys like to visit. We wandered around the library, unfortunately due to Covid restrictions the play room and a few other child friendly attractions are still not allowed, but they looked at the giant globe and we rode up and down elevators and went up and down stairs and picked out a few movies to borrow. Next up was lunch, we drove to Fort Wayne's famous Coney Island, in business, in the same location since 1907. The boys all had hotdogs, a bag of potato chips and the favorite small glass bottle of Coca Cola with a straw. When we left we went out the back door, you get to walk through a very small kitchen area with a giant vat of chili cooking and always a man washing dishes.
On Monday the weather was perfect, a chilly start to the day but abundant sunshine and a high expected in the low sixties. Everyone piled into the van at nine and we got on the highway to drive about for about an hour to Pokagon State Park near Angola, Indiana. We arrived at the park, parked at the Potawatami Inn and headed to hiking trail. Our goal was to walk to Hell's Point, the highest point in the park, and I believe in Steuben county. We ambled along, the best pace to go when the youngest walker is only four, and enjoyed a truly glorious morning. After a while we reached Hell's Point and they all enjoyed a snack of trail mix, we then descended, there are 84 steps to go down and this was a cause of great excitement. On we continued and then took another trail to walk up to Blue Bird Hill, such a pretty, tranquil spot in the park as the trail is not a main loop through the woods. Then it was time to head back to the van, and head home for a late lunch, their favorite rigatoni and bread and butter.
