You can't get something for nothing!

Our favorite thing about Crater of Diamonds park was the following story:

We kept hearing that the best time to find diamonds was after it rained and right after it was plowed. So Blake got it in his head that anywhere he saw a puddle… that is where he should look and dig around. At one point, he was off exploring, and he shouted out that he needed help. Not too concerned, because again, we were in the middle of a 37 acre field of dirt, I moseyed on over to see what was up. He was covered in mud from his knees down and he was panicked. His shoes had been eaten up by the ground. Yes, you read that correctly! He found a wet area that he decided to investigate and when he stepped onto the ground, he sunk! A foot into the ground, he sunk. It took all of his strength to get himself out the bog, and his shoes did not come out with him. A lady that was venturing by about this time, offered up her opinion that he should just say adios to those shoes, they were G-O-N-E! So, we got Daddy-O on over to dig his shoes out of the earth! Blake got his heart beating again and his shoes were found a foot in the ground. The big life lesson that Blake learned from this adventure is this…YOU CAN’T GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING! It is a lot of WORK! Let that be a lesson to all my boys!