My eldest daughter is a big Toby Mac fan. She subscribes to his mailing lists that tell where the next concerts are going to be, etc. We went to Winter Wonderslam in Lubbock, TX right before Christmas this last year and she absolutely loved it! So....he is having another concert in Amarillo along with the Newsboys and Newsong on March 4th. We've decided to go and make a mini-vacation out of it. Palo Duro Canyon is just outside of Amarillo so along with another family that is very close to us, we'll be taking a 3 day camping/concert trip! My kids are so excited about this as we've not had the ability to take a vacation for quite some time and they all love camping out under the stars. They all have calendars in their rooms and they've been counting down the days until they get to go. The other family is equally excited and the chatter has been ongoing about what it will be like, etc.

Our last camping trip we tried was a disaster! We had a great time at a Bird Santuary camp ground...until nightfall. We were caught in the worst lightning storm I've ever experienced! By the time the wind quit howling and we were completely soaked we decided that we wanted warm beds and soft pillows and drove home at 4am.

I was thinking that I would do some research on Palo Duro canyon and maybe make a homeschool mini unit about it. That might seem strange to the parents going with us (they don't homeschool), but why not take advantage of the great outdoors, the lack of textbooks and nature at our fingertips?

When we get back, I'll hopefully be able to post some pictures of our adventure as well as some interesting facts we learned while we were there.

Ah, the beauty of homeschooling and family time...don't you just love it?

Blessings all,

homeschoolmom