Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tracy Aviary & Swinging at the Park

Here are the girls when we first arrive at Tracy Aviary. Olivia was hungry and wanted an apple, but I think that contributed to her hands getting really cold. "Cold hands" is pretty much the only thing she said while we were here.
Jo had fun playing with all the chains, but that of course made her hands cold too.
These birds are pelicans and ducks. I enjoyed watching the pelicans trying to dive under water after the ducks to try and get whatever the ducks were after.
Click on this picture to make it bigger and you can see the mouse this Laughing kookaburra has in his beak. We arrived in time to see him wacking it against the log he is sitting on. When I got to close, he flew off still carrying it in his beak.
Our peacock encounters:
Shortly after I took this picture the peacock puffed out all his feathers and freaked Olivia out. She's very sensitive to loud noises so when he started calling she cried even louder.
We saw a lot of other birds- golden eagles, bald eagles, flamingoes, an emu, condors, etc. but Olivia wasn't very interested in them, her main focus being her "cold hands" and it was hard for me to be excited without anyone to share it with.
After the aviary, with Jolie asleep in the car (car was kept in sight and not far from us at all times, door locked, windows cracked), Olivia and I headed for the playground where she had to swing on every swing. If you look closely at the pictures showing her eyes, they are puffy and her pupils are very big, this is from the eye drops. But she also does have a bit of a black eye on her left eye she hit the corner by her temple on something yesterday and there is a bruise today.

She wasn't very excited about the tire swing, but I made her sit long enough for me to get a picture.
Didn't like this one very much either.
Her favorite type of swing.

"Cold hands" finally drove us back to the car to look for somewhere to eat lunch- drive-in at Arctic Circle, eating while watching a movie in the car. Aside from the hospital and doctors, it was a great day for Olivia, Jolie and I.

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