A Scavanger Hunt at the Arboretum

Grandma and the trio looking for fish. Caitlin in charge of the map.
Grandma and Luke finding Goldenrod.
Sitting on a less nerve wracking part of the terrace.

Weenies Eating Weenie Hut weiners.

Today the triplets and my mom and I went to a local college's aboretum for a small event. It was put on by the metro parks and was a lot of fun. We did a scavanger hunt along the path around the lake - through butterfly and hummingbird gardens, over a bridge, on a nerve wracking terrace over the lake... It was fun. There were several local artists around the path painting and you could stop and watch them. We had to search for plant and tree names, dates, pine needles - all kid friendly and Amanda friendly.

Afterwards we stopped at the Weenie Hut vendor that was there and got the kids huge hot dogs. They enjoyed it and Sean and I are going to go over to walk after we drop the kids off this week. It is supposed to be gorgeous in the spring as there are tons of flowering crab apple trees. We didn't see any hummingbirds, but we saw butterflies and geese, a swan and fish as well as several different kinds of plants, trees, and grasses. We passed a ginko biloba tree - I didn't know it was a tree- and I thought about licking the bark to see if it would make me healthy. My mom said she didn't think it worked that way.