Week of Christmas- Day 2... Ducks and Deliveries

It was unusually warm this morning so I got the idea to take the kids to feed ducks at a local lake. Lee said he thought it was supposed to rain later in the day, so I figured we had just enough time after breakfast. When we got to the lake, I *did* see the tiny sign that said not to feed the wildlife (wonder why??) but I ignored it. I was a rebel.

This guy ran right up to us, I guess he knew what was coming....

Then a few more joined in...

Then the masses swarmed.... the crazy thing was this was just a third of the ducks/geese! This was to the right of me and there was the same amount to the front and left!

I'm not sure Will knew what to think!

But he and Amy enjoyed them, of course! Amy did most of the bread throwing. Will tried to chase a few.

When we ran out of bread (which happened rather quickly) we decided to walk around the lake. This area is by the hospital and these are some other medical buildings around. Will had his MRI in one of them. The area around the lake has a nice paved walking trail, a bridge and some pretty stonework.

Amy was a little upset that I wouldn't let her play in the mud. "But I'm wearing my boots, Mom!" 

We even saw a hawk! Cool! And we were this close to it. It was neat.

At about this point, half way around the lake, it started to rain. Mostly heavy sprinkling... so we had to walk fast back to the car! Will was a little unwilling as he just wanted to run around, but we made it, just in time for the heavy rain to fall! Talk about perfect timing!!

This evening our family plan was to deliver all the goodies I made the other day. I made 9 brown bags, but we only had to deliver 7 of them. So there was a lot of driving around Murfreesboro! That's ok, it also gave us a chance to look at lights- which is always fun.

The goodies I made were: Aunt Lynn's cut out cookies, brownies, white bread and fudge.

We had to drop off most of the stuff, not many people were home. But it was fun to see the few that were. Will fell asleep in the car, and Amy was mostly well behaved. She got kind of tired of sitting towards the end. But that's ok.

It was a good Day 2. :)