On our way home to Portland for Father's Day we decided to stop at one of the places we always speed past and say we should stop at some day. Thus we found ourselves at the fish hatchery with no idea whether it would be of interest to the princesses. But they loved it! After splashing about in a fountain, we wandered over to the sturgeon pond, where we could look at the "stoogins." Those things get freaky huge! Up to 20 feet!
Naturally, the girls wanted to know if the "stoogins" could eat them. They thought it was hilarious that they suck up their food like a vacuum instead of using teeth. Meri kept watching them through the underground windows and saying again and again, "this is just fabulous!" Oh, and we decided it's a good thing we clothe Meri. Apart from the normal reasons for wearing clothing, she's so white that it appears she would disappear altogether in the sun if she didn't. Either that or she's a lot more angelic than we give her credit for being!
Then we meandered over to the trout pond, to see the "tramps, I mean what are those called again?" "Are they slimy mommy?"
Jell got so excited about seeing them swim and jump out of the water that she began to levitate.
After convincing the girls that the fish didn't want them to throw little rocks at them to eat, Mom miraculously found a quarter in her purse to purchase a handful of fish food! Thrown one at a time, this provided like 20 minutes of entertainment, which makes it 25 cents well spent in my book. Here's quite the wind-up for a throw that travels 6 inches:
She seriously cracks me up. The whole outfit ... it just works.
By some stroke of luck nobody even fell in the water, nor were they eaten by "stoogens" nor "tramps." So we walked off in time to take a quick look at the dam to discuss why water looks white when it's going really crazy. Can anyone help me with that one?
Naturally, the girls wanted to know if the "stoogins" could eat them. They thought it was hilarious that they suck up their food like a vacuum instead of using teeth. Meri kept watching them through the underground windows and saying again and again, "this is just fabulous!" Oh, and we decided it's a good thing we clothe Meri. Apart from the normal reasons for wearing clothing, she's so white that it appears she would disappear altogether in the sun if she didn't. Either that or she's a lot more angelic than we give her credit for being!
Then we meandered over to the trout pond, to see the "tramps, I mean what are those called again?" "Are they slimy mommy?"
Jell got so excited about seeing them swim and jump out of the water that she began to levitate.
After convincing the girls that the fish didn't want them to throw little rocks at them to eat, Mom miraculously found a quarter in her purse to purchase a handful of fish food! Thrown one at a time, this provided like 20 minutes of entertainment, which makes it 25 cents well spent in my book. Here's quite the wind-up for a throw that travels 6 inches:
She seriously cracks me up. The whole outfit ... it just works.
By some stroke of luck nobody even fell in the water, nor were they eaten by "stoogens" nor "tramps." So we walked off in time to take a quick look at the dam to discuss why water looks white when it's going really crazy. Can anyone help me with that one?
