We spent the last day of our vacation primarily at Lincoln Memorial Garden, my most favorite childhood place of all. We had to stop for breakfast first of course, and we had to make that stop the Sunrise Cafe on Second Street.
My boy had been hoping to pick up the disgusting and exceedingly bad for you Springfield tradition of a horseshoe sandwich (toast topped with a hamburger, topped with french fries, topped with cheese sauce), but had to settle for the breakfast version of toast, sausage, hash browns, and gravy all piled on top of each other. It is a truly guilty pleasure if I ever heard of one. I admit it, I had one too, but I could only eat about a third of it and could barely eat anything for the rest of the day.
For the Lincoln Memorial garden part, I'll just say a little bit and then leave the rest of the talking to the pictures. Like I said, these gardens may be my most favorite place in the world, at least in relationship to my childhood.
My parents took me here all of the time while I was growing, and I grew to love these grounds, love these trees, love these trails, and love everything about the place. The Gardens are 100 acres of well maintained trails, easy to traverse, and safe and secluded enough to allow children to wander off alone at a bit of a younger age than other places. It is also home to many native Illinois flowers and butterflies, and a wonderfully quaint Nature Center perfect for young children to gain a better understanding of their connection to nature.
Many of the trails open up to a lake view, and the grounds are speckled with benches for resting every 100 feet or so. Each of these benches has a Lincoln quote engraved into its back, making for pleasant and gratifying resting places for those of us who may fall into the category of Lincoln fanatics.
So, here are the last of the vacation pictures. I hope you like butterflies, because I just cannot help myself around flowers and butterflies.
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We would go every year to tap the Maple Trees. I miss that.
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