On Saturday morning we went to the Walnut Creek Wetland Center for the first time ever. We first went to the kids learning room, which was pretty cool. The kids liked touching the things on the "touch table" and coloring.
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| Simon coloring (Zac drew the stick-figure) |
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| The kids check out items from the touch table |
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| Alice points at butterflies on the floor puzzle she and Zac put together |
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| The lady working at the center was kind enough to show us the worm compost and let Simon touch a worm. |
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| Simon liked the worm better once I was the one holding it. |
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| We had our obligatory snack time on some lovely rocking chairs on the back deck. |
After we were fueled up, we headed out for a walk on the greenway adjacent to the wetland center. We were soon fortunate to come across a pedestrian tunnel under the roadway. The kids absolutely loved it (especially a certain tunnel-obsessed Simon) and they had so much fun running back and forth in it, that we abandoned our walk and just played there.
While the kids ran back and forth and enjoyed the echo effect, Zac and I amused ourselves by trying to take artsy pictures of the kids, using the interesting lighting of the tunnel.
Right next to the tunnel was a steep hill, so both kids enjoyed "mountain climbing."
We eventually headed back. The kids loved running over the bridge and gathering flowers and climbing some large boulders near the entrance.
