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Attleboro Easter Egg Hunt

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Attleboro Easter Egg Hunt
Photo-A-Day #1457

Today Allison, Eva and I went to Attleboro to Capron Park Zoo. We visited the zoo and we also went for the annual Easter Egg Hunt. We also met up with our friend Michelle and her two kids. Eva loves spending time with them and we had a lot of fun. We only spent a little time in the zoo before it was time to walk over to the park to do the actual Easter egg hunt.

Oh my God! The Easter egg hunt was mass chaos. We stood around the park looking out at a sea of Easter eggs. People lined the entire park chomping at the bit to get out and pick up eggs. Once the DJ announced that we were free to go hunting the field was swarmed with kids and parents. Kids 1 – 10 could participate, there was a 1-5 area and a 6-10 area. I think there should have been a 1-2 1/2 area and then maybe 3 – 5 area and then 6 -10 because man the less than 2 year olds could not even get the broken bits of the eggs , they were so outmatched. Going to a free event like this is a really interesting place to observe human behavior. I’ve determined in my own little scientific way that no matter where you stand, be it a parade route, road race or in line at the deli, if you leave any possible room in front of you someone will inevitably just step in front of you like you were never there in the 1st place.

Other than people just being people we had a pretty nice time. The zoo was pretty empty and we got there early so we were able to see the animals active. I got some great shots and hope to have taken some good enough to enter into the zoo’s photography contest. Maybe this one of Ramses the White Lion.

Ramses the White Lion

The rest of my images from today are in my Easter Egg Hunt Flickr Set.

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Feeding the Piggies

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Feeding the Piggies
Photo-A-Day #1437

Eva has still not gotten over her sickness and neither has Allison. This has really affected Eva’s sleeping habits. She’s been getting up at very odd hours including 4:00am last night, and I didn’t even think about taking a 4am photo either.

After a really nice Mass we recovered for a bit and Allison and I decided on food for the week. Then it was off to the supermarket for me. Supermarket shopping is sort of a Zen-like experience for me. When I go by myself it is my time, I plan out the whole trip so that everything that needs refrigeration gets picked up last even if that means doing a little backtracking. I’m totally in the zone while shopping. I have my coupons and my little scanner and my list. Sometimes I even wear my headphones and just completely relax to the music.

When I got home I watched the latest Transformers Animated episodes from the DVR. The new season started yesterday and it was fantastic. I love how they are starting to get them most out of the back stories. I know that many people are not fans of this series but it really is the best one in a while. Given time this series will be remembered as one of the best ever. Even the designs are some of my favorites.

Allison and I took Eva to World War I Memorial Park to feed the animals. On the way over we asked Eva what noises each of the animals made. Aside from telling us that each one says “moo” on the 1st try she did pretty well when asked a second time. She’s got dog, cat, sheep, horse, pig and of course cow down. She really is thrilled about sounds, her current favorite book right now is “Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?”.

We walked all around and feed the goats, llamas, little pigs, and the horse. We brought a bag of carrots with us and the animals were all about the carrots. They were so excited for the carrots. Eva was thrilled, she’d want to get closer to them, I think she’d really enjoy a petting zoo at some point. I’m not sure where there is one close by. We still need to get our membership to the local zoos through Zoo New England. Once we get that we’ll be able to go to pretty much every zoo near us as part of that membership.

I fixed the computer, had to go to the cmd prompt to do it. I’m hoping to get that video published still. We shall see.

As far as the project with the bike I was unable to take care of that today but soon I will do that project and blog about it.

Tomorrow is the start of three days of presentations. This is going to be interesting.