I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everybody a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend……and share a cute story of course.

Today was a beautiful day.  Some may say cold but when I took some garbage out I thought ‘why aren’t we at a park?’  So after a stop at Starbucks we went to the park.  Not the usual park though.  Anna ran around and climbed and went down the big slides with Damion and alone.  Jack walked around and crawled around and went down the small slides feet first on his belly and down the big slides on my lap.

Damion decided we would take to a walk to the lake to maybe see some geese (one thing that excites Anna when we pass them driving).  As we stopped to throw rocks from the bridge she didn’t see any geese but when we got to the open field area there were approximately a hundred of them for our viewing pleasure.  Anna of course wanted to catch one but they were just a bit faster than her so she decided to herd them instead.  Then she and Damion went running into the little groups causing them to fly away, which peeked Jack’s interest because there was suddenly a bunch of motion and lots of honking.

The geese only flew away to the lake a hundred feet away and ofcourse we followed them.  On the lake with them were almost a hundred mallard ducks.  We started across that bridge and at the center Damion & Anna threw little rocks at all the creatures.  I’ll admit it was cute the first time but then I got a bit annoyed, until Damion through a handful that caused the ducks and a couple of geese to gather together.  Now this was funny to watch because the lake had a thin layer of ice on it and have you ever watched Canadian geese walk and try to stop on ice?  If you get a chance you should.

After that we went back to the Jeep via the swings and went home.  Unfortunately Thanksgiving is at a time of year were the weather is so varied from year to year (well at least in Central IL) because I think it would be fun annual tradition to spend Thanksgiving morning at this park. 

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