Julia's day

This morning, Julia and me took Allie to school and Julia didn't say nyah-nyah about having a day off with her mom.

We went to the library in late morning and Julia played for half an hour on a library computer--various educational games including one where she manipulated a skeleton and its body organs. Then we went to McDonald's and because the weather was so beautiful, she got to play in the outside playland for almost an hour.

Afterwards, we went to the other side of town and walked the Yahara River Trail for about an hour. There were only people around right at the beginning of the trail, but we saw plenty of birds further in, including a very wary goose. There were a large number of tadpoles in the creek, fish in several places, a snake (which Julia was not interested in sticking around to watch further), and a whole bunch of turtles. Seriously, a really large number of turtles, sunning themselves on every log on the other side of the river tributary.

I probably wouldn't have even noticed them but for the fact that a whole mess of them plopped into the water at the same time. It happened in waves, just like turtle synchronized swimming. Bizarre and interesting.

Then we stopped off at a friend's house and Julia played with the kids there for about 1/2 hour. She was whipped by the time we got home; just in time for her sister to walk in from school. Poor Allie--tomorrow she's going to miss baking!