(from July 23)We are resting up after a busy weekend and I thought I would send some pictures and let you know what we have been doing. We went to Nelson Lake on Friday morning, but Frankie is going to write about that. When we finished there, we picked up some lunch and drove to the Red Oak Nature Center in North Aurora. Nitrocat wanted to check on a missing box for a friend and then let the kittens explore the nature center. The Fox River had flooded recently and the spot where the box should have been was in pretty bad shape. We searched through the mud and debris, but did not have any luck finding the box.
So Kirby took a nap in the car (Nitrocat left the air on for him) and we all went inside. There was a really big scale model of a section of the Fox River, the nature center, bike trails and a small cave. Then there were also some small rooms that were designed to look like the inside of a leaf, the inside of a tree trunk and underground. As you walked through them, you learned about the parts of a leaf, the different layers and rings of a tree and some of the things that you might find if you dug underground. The kittens really liked it and skipped from room to room even though they had already walked a long ways that morning.
There was also a room with a special bee hive attached to the wall where you could watch the bees working. That was really neat to see! Another room had tanks and cages of the different animals that you might see living along the river. My favorite was the soft shelled turtle. Just his pointy nose was sticking out of the sand, but there was a picture we could see and his shell looks like a pancake!
When we finished at the nature center, Nitrocat decided that even though we hadn't found any letterboxes she would take us all home. She said we had been such good sports that we could stop at the video store for movies and she'd get pizza for supper. She also got some special bandaids for J's blisters.
Pinky Poo is going to tell about what we did on Saturday. I'll write more later.
Miss you,
Tweeter
PS-Nitrocat says that the picture of the leaf room is really not very good at all, but she only took one.
So Kirby took a nap in the car (Nitrocat left the air on for him) and we all went inside. There was a really big scale model of a section of the Fox River, the nature center, bike trails and a small cave. Then there were also some small rooms that were designed to look like the inside of a leaf, the inside of a tree trunk and underground. As you walked through them, you learned about the parts of a leaf, the different layers and rings of a tree and some of the things that you might find if you dug underground. The kittens really liked it and skipped from room to room even though they had already walked a long ways that morning.
There was also a room with a special bee hive attached to the wall where you could watch the bees working. That was really neat to see! Another room had tanks and cages of the different animals that you might see living along the river. My favorite was the soft shelled turtle. Just his pointy nose was sticking out of the sand, but there was a picture we could see and his shell looks like a pancake!
When we finished at the nature center, Nitrocat decided that even though we hadn't found any letterboxes she would take us all home. She said we had been such good sports that we could stop at the video store for movies and she'd get pizza for supper. She also got some special bandaids for J's blisters.
Pinky Poo is going to tell about what we did on Saturday. I'll write more later.
Miss you,
Tweeter
PS-Nitrocat says that the picture of the leaf room is really not very good at all, but she only took one.
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