Memorial Day Redirect

So I wanted to go to a parade today for Memorial Day. I hadn't planned it, I just started waking everyone up at about 9:15 this morning.
Didn't happen.
Couldn't get anyone motivated.
OK, so let's do the nature thing. Nature has no timetable, no hurry.
Samma and I have had great experiences just walking in forest preserves and parks lately.
We went to LeRoy Oakes here in St. Charles on Friday and walked by a creek, met this frog Samma named Joseph, and I got an un-named tick on my leg.
Saturday, we did a double: we went to Klein Creek Farm in Winfield and found out their horses were at another farm, so we went there too. We went across town to St. James Farm in search of Annie and Jack the horses. We found them pulling a hay wagon and we saw lots of other beautiful horses. I spotted another un-named tick on someone's else's shirt.
Aside from the ticks, it has been great to be with Samma with no distractions. Let's see how it is with husband Dave along. He is not a nature guy. The only morning Dew he is interested in comes from a can.
Today, after a breakfast of cookies, and Mountain Dew for Dave, we finally stepped off at noon-ish. We headed to Blackwell, in Warrenville, to walk on some trails, see some nature... but we got detoured.
We passed by Fermi Lab and Dave said "Hey I remember they had this ball on a string that showed the world moving around..."
OK. Ball on a string, a free holiday must-see.
At Fermi Lab, I couldn't help but think of the Simpson's episode with the three-eyed fish. They had huge fish hopping out of the pond in front of the main building. They were named Blinky and Winky of course.
Then we headed toward the herd of buffalo. We got out of the Jeep and stood by a fence and we could only see one buffalo over the tall grass. He was the guard, we decided, because he was the only one standing. Samma named him Phillip, completely off the top of her head, in an instant.
"Oh, that's Phillip."
So we left Phillip and meandered into the main building. We saw the ball, er, the pendulum, it was neat. We joked that an empty display case was full of Neutrinos, we asked Samma what flavor of Neutrino she wanted, and we left.
Now off to nature right?
No, we did a drive-through at Blackwell.
Despite the fact that Dave has 2000 cousins in the area, none of the family reunions or picnics said "Hermes." So we drove along making up names and stories for everyone. I guess we missed being away from the Jon and Kate plus 8 marathon, because we had to narrate over the action like they do.
Fine. We were not invited to the parties. It was raining a little. We will make our own picnic at home! So there!
So we went home and ate like pigs... and there weren't any ticks!