Got To Love It!

What a great outdoor day today!  Sunshine, blue sky and no wind made our visit to the playground a great one.  

We spent 2 hours at the Brookeville playground this morning.  There is a farm next to it so the girls got to watch the cows eating hay as we had an outdoor picnic.  The chickadees serenaded us from the tall evergreens that surrounded our picnic table.  This is the same playground that Wren saw a bald eagle at last year.  "Gramma, what's that big bird" she asked.

After numerous runs down the big slide, we packed up and decided to go to the Strathcona Wilderness Centre to see if we could see a moose on the snowshoe trail.  On the way there, instead of seeing a moose, we saw 8 whitetailed deer.  They were in the bush but as we pulled over to watch them, they came out of the trees one behind the other and paraded across an open field.  What a sight!

The lot was full at the SWC and we couldn't find a parking spot so we didn't get to try and find a moose.  We headed for home and spent some time in the sun on the back deck, visiting with the neighbor's cat.

All that fresh air and exercise at the playground tuckered the girls right out.  At bedtime today, they were recapping all the animals and birds that they saw today; magpies, chickadees, bluejays, horses, cows and 'white tails'.  Sounds like just a regular day in rural Alberta.  Got to love it!