Fun Summer Sunday

Yesterday, we decided to do something different...mix things up a bit. It was a very nice day (78 degrees, slightly humid, no wind) so we decided to go to a petting zoo and our local park. I had heard about a free petting zoo that was nearby from one of my friends.

The kids seemed pretty excited, but Andy and I didn't get our hopes too high. After all, this was only a free petting zoo located behind a BP gas station.

One of the first things we saw was a pen with Silky Chickens. They were very cute and Rowan really wanted to pet them. There were many other "regular" chickens roaming about freely. We even saw some unusual geese and a peacock.

There were also many pens with goats. They were pretty friendly.

This chicken was making herself comfortable in a little sink hole in the ground. I didn't see any eggs, but she might still have been nesting there.

There were 3 small donkeys that were extremely nice. I think that they really wanted us to feed them the ground corn from the vending machine. We didn't have any quarters, so we couldn't help them. Sorry donkeys.

More goats. A few Shetland sheep next door.

There were 4 little play houses there in a kids play area. They were cute on the outside, but very bare on the inside. The sand box had not been attended in a long time and was more like a "land" box instead.

The pen next to this green house had some rabbits, most of which were snoozing. Overall, it was a so-so little petting zoo. We thought that the water provided for the animals should have been a little cleaner and the pens could have been cleaner as well. But this zoo was free and only relies on donations.

After the petting zoo, we went to our local park. This is the biggest park in our city. There is a lot of water, an island, ducks, geese, a band shell, many shelters, and a huge playground.
The first thing we did was unload all of our bits of bread on the ducks.
When my kids refuse to eat their bread crusts, I just save them in a bag in the freezer and then we feed it to the ducks at the park.

And finally.....

Rowan would like to show you one of her many "talents"!