Our Girl Scout Troop sold enough cookies this season to earn free tickets to the Columbus Zoo. We’ve had this trip for a few years now, and it never fails that it is always bright, sunny, hot, and full of allergy floaters in the air. There was an air quality alert in effect, it was…
Fly Away… to the Piper Aviation Museum
We didn’t have many days in Pennsylvania, but we wanted to do some things we hadn’t done out there before. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania is full of mountains, which means it seems to be a drive to get anywhere. 2.5 hours North of where we were staying, is a little town called Lock Haven. They have a…
A Quick Drive Through Gettysburg
After our Appalachian Trail stop, we continued our adventure to Gettysburg. It was later in the day, so we did a super quick stop at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. We have been through the museum before, so we only looked at the free displays and did a quick stop in…
Stepping Foot On The Appalachian Trail
Two of my nieces (trail names Sparks and Church Mouse) have been hiking The Appalachian Trail since the end of February. They are now officially over the halfway mark and in Pennsylvania. (Keep up with their adventures here.) We drove out to Pennsylvania to bring them the family staple… Hot Dog Shoppe! We got a…
How to Make a Church Organ
There’s a small town in Northeast Ohio that is home to the Schantz Organ Company. They had a 150 year anniversary open house, so we enriched our homeschool music class by checking it out! We got to walk through their factory. They had a lot of history on their family and the company. We went…



