On Saturday we wanted to something fun as a family so we took a drive up to Patoka Lake. We took a picnic lunch, our bikes, and our swim stuff and made a day of it. We were almost to the park entrence when Eric noticed a turtle at the side of the road. He picked it up and we headed to the park to start our bike ride. While we were getting everything ready the boys got a kick out of the turtle.
The poor thing stayed in its shell for a long time while the boys stood over him waiting for him to come out and say hello.
He finally got brave enough and starting moving around which made the boys very happy and excited.
I think they got a little too excited for the turtle because he went back into his shell. The boys thought maybe he was hungry. At first they tried feeding him the rocks...not too temping to the turtle. So they found a tree and thought the leaf would be a better idea.
We wanted to let it go by the lake but it got a little too scared in the child carrier so we let him go in the bushes :)
That looks like they had so much fun with the turtler. I remember how much fun they had with out turtle. Unfortunately he didn't make it through the winter. :-( So they won't have a turtle here to play with.
ReplyDeleteWow my typing was way off. Sorry turtler. :-)
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