Starved Rock and the Acrocats

[unico_love]

Today I woke up feeling awful, as usual, and took another dose of Ibuprofen at 7:30am. I stayed up then since laying down feels worse than sitting up and I felt like I was awake for the day. By early afternoon I was feeling a lot better so Michael and I went to a state park an hour and a half south of me called Starved Rock. I had never been there before. Where I live there's mostly forest, but an hour or so south you start getting into total prairie. We stopped by Michael's house on the way and I gave his sister a "Get Well" card since she'd just had back surgery. She has very bad scoliosis. The drive there didn't take as long as I'd expected, though I did need to take a Klonopin because I've spent weeks imagining we'd die in a car crash on the way to Starved Rock. We walked on a couple nature trails and my knee got twisted a little. It still hurts. The nature trails were nice, though, and we took good pictures which I hope to post later. My face was beet red from the heat and I had some minor digestive problems, but mostly I was okay. Then Michael and I went to eat at a small restaurant/ice cream shop in the tiny town next to Starved Rock. Then we returned because it was time for the Acrocats and Rock Cats show. It's a performance of cats and other animals doing tricks and it helped to support a local cat shelter. There were cats in the lodge waiting to be adopted, including a bunch of kittens. I saw the friendly calico cat get adopted:) I found the show really cute. There was a cuddly groundhog that wore a 4th of July hat and drove a car (it was electronic and he pressed on something to make it go forward) and he raised a flag. A chicken beat a cat at bowling and a contest to see who could ring a bell the most. There were other cute animals and the cats did all kinds of neat things. It was fun to see. I'm glad I was well enough to go. I have a headache now, but I'm trying to only take pain medication for my abdominal pain. I may go to bed soon.