Starved Rock only had 3 of about 15 trails open. We found that out about an hour outside of the park. No DNR! We do not have channel 7 or 13 to tell us about the storms! Indiana has different news channels!
Of course that didn't put a damper on our vacay. We visited Mattheissen State Park instead, which we found to be a hidden treasure. Many of the trails went straight to the bottom of the canyons and we hiked along the sand stone cliffs and and waterfalls. 
The Devil's Paint Box and Cascade Falls were two of my favorites!
This trip has been very economical...Karen paid for campsite, I paid for gas, and we ate out for one meal a day! No kids asking for anything! Awesome. We swam and ate, hiked and biked, slept and napped all when WE wanted to. Besides being an amazing get-a-way, I have reached some important realizations:
1. Kids pack food and water for a hike, 40 year old women pack ibuprofen!
3. It's a lot cheaper to vacay without kids! I'm taking money home!
4. If it's late and we are too tired to make a fire, we don't have to!! We can just get in bed and no one complains.
There are still good people in the world:
The young man who let us into the pool for free because they only took cash and we only had a credit card.
The 3 Northwestern students who helped us down from a very tall cliff.
The lady at the pool who told us where the bike trail was open.
There are still some shitty people in the world too; namely the 9 year old boy at the pool who kept cutting in line in front of his friends, called them dumb and retarded. I wanted to yell at him and choke him but Karen wouldn't let me. She said it was time to leave. That's why she's my bestie! She watches out for me! 
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