We spent this weekend camping at Spring Mill State Park, down south. Unfortunately we ran out of time before we ran out of things we wanted to do, so we'll have to get back there again sometime soon. We left after I got out of work on Friday, so it was pretty late by the time we get there and got set up, but we had a very nice spot on a hill (which made us worry every time the kids went down it on their bikes or scooters). We had a really busy but incredibly cool Saturday, in which we first hit the orchard shops out in town. On the way back into the park, we passed a farmhouse with what looked like the world's biggest yard sale going on, so we stopped to look around. I think the family there travels around to auctions and such buying things to resell...there was some of everything there. Knives, video games, glassware, clothing, appliances, you name it. We all found a few things (Alex found a Game Cube video game and controller that will work on the Wii, Missy found a remote controlled robot dinosaur, Beth found some glass, and I found two softball sized geodes. All was cheap cheap cheap...the geodes were 50 cents each). After lunch we hit the Gus Grissom memorial at the park, then did the cave tour in a boat. The park has a cave with a river running through it that they take visitors through in a boat, which is really cool.  and hit the road again. We were on the road for a while after that driving down to Marengo Caverns, which is a commercialized but amazing cave system even further down south in Indiana. We took one of the longer tours which involved quite a bit of hiking through several levels, and seeing a lot of stalactites and stalagmites, cave bacon, reflecting pools, rock ledges that ring like a gong, flowstone, etc. Once back outside they had a panning for gems and arrowheads setup, with a long trough with running water.The kids had a blast. On the way back to the park, there was really heavy traffic going in, come to find out that the Persimmon Festival was going on this weekend and that night was the candlelight tour of the pioneer village at the park. But traffic was so backed up and so slow that we were moving in line for over an hour, and by the time we got to the village, it was almost closing time (don't know if they were going to keep it open longer due to the heavy traffic) and we needed to get the kids to bed. Late. So, we hit the village in the morning, when everything was over and almost deserted. Such a cool place though, and they had the sawmill setup and running. Amazing. We did the tour of the village ourselves...I LOVE the sawmill...and got in some geocaching in the park before hitting the road. We originally had planned to get to the railroad museum in French Lick but ran out of time. Bluespring Caverns will also have to wait.