On January 31, we celebrate the feast of St. John Bosco, the Patron Saint of Boys! As it was nearing I asked my boys what they wanted to do to celebrate and our oldest replied "Something really cool for BOYS!" I asked him what he had in mind and he mentioned that he always wanted to see the Indian Cave which is about 1 1/2 hours south of our city. We take little field trips often, but not usually day trips where we are driving further, but I decided it would be fun to do something special so in the car we went!
Indian Cave State Park is on the border of Nebraska and Missouri and the cave has Native American markings that are approximately 1,500 years old! We really had a nice time hiking, learning and explore the cave and the park. There is a unfortunately a lot of graffiti markings, but we had fun trying to find the original Native American markings throughout the cave.
As we were leaving we saw the park rangers working on a legal burn and I think our crew of boys thought that was even cooler than the cave! They could have watched it for hours.
Before we headed home we went to the nearby city of Brownville to learn more history about Nebraska. It is a small town with lots of historical things to see including an old railcar, and museum, a log cabin and more. We really had a lot of fun on our day trip and we will be planning to explore further away more in the future!
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