Gourd Festival & Zoo

We drove almost 2 hours south to attend a Gourd Festival. I learned a bit more about growing them, and still not ready to try the art aspect yet. But I took some photos of some real beautiful pieces of work. It wasn't really a kid thing even though the fliers said there would be kid activities. I bought more seeds, and then girls played on the nearby playground equipment. Later we went to the city's zoo. It turned out to be a great day and the girls were, once again, fantastically behaved on the way there and back.

We saw great blue herons, thousands of Canada geese, sandhill cranes, a bald eagle and red-tailed hawks on the drive.

FESTIVAL

Painted and carved



Wood burned and dyed

Painted


Dremel tooled, dyed and then lightly painted...my favorites!!!

I also ran into another single mom of daughter who was also born in Guatemala. I kind of knew who she was from a yahoo single parents of Guatemalan children group. Again, can't help but say what a small world!!

AT THE ZOO

rhino


grizzly


enthralled

flamingos

playground at the zoo

weeeeeeee


chillin'

always head first for my risk taker Ve

first time on a carousel-wasn't sure what to think, but then she liked it

lovin it'


porcupine



my little animals


chowin' on popcorn


fries and lemonade---yeah I know real healthy-not, but when we go to have fun I really am not overly worried about the nutrition of their chosen foods


on the way home

times two