our road trip
Though I was kinda aggravated that our batteries died right at the end when we went to an awesome park North of Oil City!
Rog started working in PA recently and was near some of the hills we always liked to travel to when we were dating. So we had a nice autumn day today [told that it would be one of the last good ones of the fall] and so we set off for a drive with our family and friend Amber.
After just planning to visit Meadville and eat there and go home, we ended up travelling to Oil City and north of there to the Oil Creek State Park where we had the kids play on the playground and we hiked a bit down a bike trail. Unfortunately THAT was wear my batteries died, but you still see a lot of great pictures I took out the car windows!
We want to go back now - it was so beautiful! So hard to leave the mountains behind, but so nice to know they’re only 2 hours southeast of us!
One thing I’ll never figure out is that to get my photos to show the right way on the slideshow, I need to somehow enter them backwards. Since I’m too lazy to figure that out now - let me just say the first pictures are around the destination, then after that they kind of go to the beginning of the trip, with the earlier ones showing up later on the slideshow. The ones where you see an amusement park is Conneaut Lake Park. We had never seen it, and just wanted to see what it looked like. Little did we know we could drive in that close and take pictures - obviously it was closed! My kids wished it was open though. Apparently they were going to be open tonight from 8-11 for a Haunted House or something, but we weren’t planning on that.
Edit of 10-23 - This has beautiful pictures of the views at Oil Creek State Park. Since I didn’t have a functioning camera at that time, viewing this web site will give you more of an idea of the beauty and calmness we experienced there…
And here’s one picture from that web site:Â 
We didn’t actually get to see this overlook because we didn’t hike that far, but you can see just how big the hills were and the colors were just about like that as well. Ahhhh.
