This Saturday’s activities included a visit to one of the local cupcakeries for some mini tasty treats, washed down with a giant cup of concrete ice cream at Neilsen’s. I asked the guy at the counter what the difference between concrete and regular ice cream, and apparently concrete has significantly more butter fat. Upon gaining this knowledge, Shane ordered the extra large. I ordered an extra spoon.
We put the top down on the little car and took our mini cupcakes (Shane had the blueberry, I had the key lime, which tragically looked better than it tasted) and concrete to Liberty Park for a walk in the lovely sunshine. Although we drive past the park frequently (I now drive past it every day on my way to work), we had never actually been in it. What do you know? It’s fantastic! There are indoor/outdoor tennis courts, multiple huge playgrounds, meandering water features for kids to play in, horseshoe pits, bocce ball courts (are they really courts?), museums, running/walking paths, lots of trees and grass, and to our surprise, the Tracy Aviary. We had the workers for the weekend and were planning on taking them to the Aviary until they decided that it was too cold and they had other errands to run. Not knowing where it was, it was quite auspicious of us to stumble upon it (in real life, not virtually) while on our Saturday stroll.
Lucky for us, the Aviary was also free when we walked by (or at least it was unguarded… we walked right in without paying anyway), so we jumped on the opportunity and checked out our fellow feathered friends.
This is when I discovered that I have a knack to attract caged mini animals. Call it a kindred spirit. Call it animal wifery. Call it monkey and bird whispering. Whatever it is, I think I have a gift.
Aside from the caged and uncaged birds (like the bald eagles who were neither tethered nor caged, just injured and unable to fly), we most enjoyed the birds that just wandered around the park like the peacocks and other spotted birds. They just cruised around and checked out the other birds. We were excited when we found these and documented them thoroughly.
We were most excited when we found a peacock that wanted a better view of the park from up on the roof.
And then we saw the most glorious sight: the first snowconeria of the season! These pop up all over town at the beginning of the summer and we indulge at least once a week. We mourn a small bit of mourn at the end of the summer when they disappear, unfortunately much earlier than the hot weather.
It’s not very hard to please us, as you can probably tell by the fact that we’ve been having so much fun doing the things local people do on third grade fieldtrips.
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