Park day before school day

Becky and James invited us to a park in Longmont to spend the last day of summer vacation searching for crawdads ( crawfish or crayfish) at one of the parks there. I think Mackenzie might put event near the top of her " all time favorite" things to do! Between Mackenzie, James and a few other kids who came and went as their parents let them, they spent an hour and a half tempting the mini-lobster-like guys with bit of hotdog tied to a string that was tied to a stick. In that time, they caught at least 100 crawdads ( a mere estimation on my part as Becky and I were not about to go digging in the bucket of agitated pinchers to find out for sure) . Mason wasn't happy that he wasn't being allowed to climb into the water to catch a few of his own but even still, we all had so much fun and wished we'd found this little gem of a park sooner in the summer.

Mack was the only girl among the crowd of kids and she was the only one among them all
that was brave enough to pick the crawdads up.

The crawdad habitat.

Interested, Mason?

These two are such " eye candy" for my camera. They are so much fun to
listen to . Becky said she thinks this looks like a C.S. Lewis type picture. Narnia might be beyond
those trees.

It's been so much fun getting to know Becky. Fully and proudly Irish ( with the temper to match, she says)  she has been great at encouraging me to step outside of my shell . With their Irish blooded boy and my Scotish/Irish heritage in Mack , you never know when a tiff will arise between Mack and James but, if nothing else, keeps things interesting! Now to introduce Mike and Ruben, two micro-beer loving, philosophical types to see if they hit it off, too.

Side note: Days later, Mackenzie is still talking about how cute crawdads were and is working up to convincing her daddy that they could keep one for a pet. To be continued...