Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Family Outings

Our first stop was Oxbow Park, a nature park that is home to many of Minnesota's native animals. We saw mountain lion, a lynx, bison, elk, deer, eagles, and various other snakes and birds. It is November in Minnesota so everyone was bundled up!

Sophia was content for a little while in the stroller but soon took to gazing by foot!

Little Red Nose!

Sophia and Aunt Ellyn looking at the bald eagles. Sophia even said eagle a few times. She also told AE that there were big birds in the cages by saying 'big bird' and pointing a few times. Wow, I didn't know she knew all that!


Brenden getting a lift from his mom, Louise!



We were all fascinated by the cougar who was getting fed as we arrived. It was pretty neat to watch it eat such big hunks of meat, but also a little gross.
After Oxbow and a lunch of yummy leftovers we headed to the bowling alley. We divided into three teams according to birthdays. My team won by a landslide, naturally!! ;)


No, Sophia the crane move is only for Karate, not bowling.

So many colors to choose from!


Ellyn and Owen relaxing


Louise asked for a print out of the scores so she could tally the totals herself! To her disappointment though, her team still lost!


1 comment:

Kathleen said...

There were a lot of colors to choose from - why am I not surprised to see an orange ball in use? And, an orange stroller for Sophia!