Friendship Fountain

After our day at the museum we went to Friendship Fountain for a picnic lunch. All was going well until the birds showed up (that would be like two seconds after we started eating). All I could think of was the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds. At one point I counted 24 birds!

Here is picture of our little group at lunch (left to right): Jonathan, Jocelyn, Lauren, Landon, Caden (in his stroller), Ellie (behind the stroller) and Marissa. Jayden is helping me take the picture.

Landon didn't like the birds . . . they terrified him. He tried to scare them away by throwing his goldfish crackers at them . . . I tried to explain how the birds like his goldfish and would come back for more, but his 2 year old little mind couldn't comprehend this idea; so while Landon attempted to make them leave, the birds thought they had made a new friend and kept coming back.

Thank goodness for heroic big brothers. In an effort to protect us (and our food) from the pigeons Jonathan began chasing the birds away. Soon after the girls joined him.

(Ellie, Jocelyn, Lauren and Jonathan)

Our little heros celebrating their victory - the birds are gone! However, if you look closely you will see the birds in the background headed our way.