The weekend before last I spent some time with my friends while I was in Cloquet, MN, and we headed out to a nearby state park, Jay Cooke State Park. My friends made sure to tell me to pronounce Cooke “cookie.” Were they teasing me? Probably, but how do I know? 
We had a lot of fun! We followed a small stream up a long ways and found some very interesting waterfalls and fascinating rocks that had been eroded by hundreds of years of steady water flow. We also found a set of walls going up a hill that we weren’t able to figure out? Who knows! This first shot is one of my favorite pictures from the trip.
This is us walking up the riverbed just enjoying ourselves, looking for interesting rocks and little waterfalls.
We found these old stone walls. They weren’t part of a building, as they were every so often about every 20 feet all the way up a hill. Maybe bridge supports? We just don’t know! We did know they were old. One of the pictures you can see a tree growing off the top of the stones! It didn’t even have any soil and the tree looked several years old!
Megan and Tiffy found a log balanced on little hump and found that they were able to use it as a seesaw. None of us could believe that it worked as well as it did. Here they are having fun!
We found some honeysuckle growing along the river. I had never had it before! It was very sweet and delicious!
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