Today, mommy and I got to meet my friends (and their moms) for lunch at Wendy's. And as an extra surprise, Daddy showed up too. After lunch Daddy had to go back to work, but the rest of us went to the Chippewa Nature Center. Mommy and I had never been there before, so we didn't really know what we were going to see.

We headed off down the trail into the woods and ended up at a place called the Homestead. We had to cross a couple of bridges on the way, so we tried to be very, very quiet so we wouldn't wake up the trolls. We saw some old buildings, but didn't get to go inside to see what they were all about because there were some bigger kids there for field trips with their school classes. There were some farm animals that we got to feed. Allie's mom brought apples to cut up and feed the pigs. I liked watching the pigs, but didn't want to get close enough to feed them. There were chickens there, too.

From there we went to see the cows. When we got to their pen, they were all the way in the back. But Allie's mom had brought a big bag of corn with her, too, and she shook that bag so the cows could see it and they came running right up to the fence as she poured it out on the ground. After the cows ate all the corn we pulled up handfulls of grass and fed them that way. Cows' tongues are very rough and very slimy!

When we were all done outside, we went back to Visitor's Center and looked at all kinds of interesting things there. They have a turtle in a water display that looks like it's really real. I thought it was, and mommy did too, for a little while. They had a bunch of things on the counter that we could pick up and look at....from seed pods to animal bones. They also had some things that we could look at under a microscope. That was really neat. We went to the River Overlook and got to watch the river rushing by. They had a telescope set up and we could see into a hole in a tree on the other side of the river. We also went into the Ecosystem Gallery. That was really fun. There is a place in the back where we looked out a window and saw all kinds of birds, squirrels and chipmunks eating and playing. There are all kinds of things to look at and play with.

I had a lot of fun with my friends today.