Wednesday Morning, July 15

I took the three boys to Annual Kid’s Day at Esbenshade’s Garden Center. (Diana was working, Jana needed to rest after her first evening at work since her surgery, and Gloria decided to stay home with Jana.)

The first feature of the morning was a representative from Zoo America, Hershey, PA, with five critter species from Pennsylvania.

Gopher Tortoise.

Gopher tortoises love to dig boroughs, and when they are bored move on to begin another. This benefits other animals who use these as their homes.

Indigo Texas Snake

They have powerful jaws and are nonvenomous.

Peregrine Falcon

These falcons can dive after prey at 200 miles per hour.

American Alligator

This one is about five years old. They can live to be about eighty years old and will grow to twelve feet in length.

After the Zoo America presentation, the children were invited to visit several stations (marked by balloons) where there were fun things for them to do.

Our first stop was the “Plant Your Own Plant” area.

After choosing a pot, the children chose a flower to plant.

Ian, Jared, and Jesse planting their flowers.

If I remember correctly, the goal of this game was to get at least one ball in a white area. If you did, you chose two prizes. If not, you could only choose one prize.

Jesse was the only one of my three who chose to do a balloon face.

There was ice cream and juice.

Jesse wanted to see the ambulance and fire truck that were in the parking lot.

He received a bag of goodies from a fireman and watched the other two stamp each others arms with one of the prizes they had received.

This station was too busy when they finished planting their flowers, and Jesse wanted to decorate his flower pot.

When he was finished, we were ready to go home and prepare for our afternoon at Refreshing Mountain – which I will tell you about tomorrow night.