Friday, July 18, 2008

The Maylee-gator and the Ella-gator

For the 4th of July, we headed to Lake Ouachita in Arkansas. This has become an annual event for us. It is the most beautiful lake we have ever seen. Get this....you can see you hands and feet while swimming, that's how clear the water is. The girls loved it. They loved being on the lake swimming (Ella realized she could swim with the life jacket, and loved it), riding in the boat, riding the tube, watching fireworks, eating home-made ice cream, and especially being with all our family. It was a great time.

The next day, Matt had his own trip planned for us....a trip into Hot Springs to a petting zoo/alligator farm. Maylee has been kind of obsessed with alligators these days, so we knew she would eat it up. Maylee loved the petting zoo part, but Ella was a little more timid. We were able to watch a feeding show where they fed these hungry alligators. This alligator farm has been in the same family for over 100 year...we thought that was pretty cool.

Maylee like watching the alligators from afar, but when she had the chance to touch a baby...she wanted nothing to do with it. To our surprise it was Ella who had no fear, and reached out and grabbed the thing by the tail!! I thought we were about to have a baby alligator on the loose! Oh how these kids are full of surprises. It really was a neat trip.


A regular little Snow White.



Maylee kept asking the goat in the trough "Why are you in there? How did you get up there?" She was quite perplexed.







Feeding time!


This was close enough.





Fearless Ella. If you asked her if she grabbed an alligator by the tail, with great certainty she would bob her head YES....too cute!





2 comments:

Leslie said...

I'm with Maylee! That would have been close enough for me, too. Looks like so much fun!

Lindsay Wagner said...

hayden has that EXACT same outfit that maylee's wearing! however...my little chunky monkey looks a little different in it. the workers at mothers' day out crack up with those shorts....they've been nicknamed hayden's hoochie mama shorts. and i LOVE them!!! we have pink and blue! get ready to see them in august! :)