Saturday, May 12, 2012

Fun Day in Nature at Charlie Elliot

Today we took Olivia to Charlie Elliot WMA (Wildlife Management Area). It was called Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center’s JAKES Day (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics, & Sportsmanship).  It was a little bit of a drive but well worth it.  The best thing- it was FREE! Brendon was so excited to go and thanked me several times for going. 

We parked and walked and found the festivities.  We got to see Turtles, Hawks, and Snakes outside.  It was really cool to show Olivia all the animals and watch her point at them.  We then went into the Discovery Center and checked that out.  They had several stuffed animals and a few live animals in there.  One of the employees took out a snake and it started going in her shirt...ewww... no thanks! Then we took a short lunch break.

After lunch we went fishing.  They had free fishing poles to use and bait.  We brought Olivia's pole but had to get some bait- they gave us hot dogs.  So we fished for a bit but didn't catch anything.  Some other people caught some HUGE Catfish.  But it was a great experience for Olivia's first time fishing.  She sat with us for a bit but then wanted to get up and move around.

Then we came home.  On the way home we were talking about getting Olivia a bike and what do you know... we saw a house with some bikes for sale in front of it.  So we stopped and got a cute pink Barbie bike! We know she won't ride it for a long time but it was only $15.00!! Best part- it has training wheels with it already too!

But lots of good memories were made today!

Butterflies
Hawk
Snakes!
Deer
Fox Pelt
Please No Bear Hugs!
Snake in the shirt...yikes!
This is your fishing pole!
One proud daddy
Watch the bobber
Mommy's turn
Here fishy, fishy

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