2016 Summer Bucket List

Yay!  Summer is here again.  We've planned some fun things to do.  What have you planned?

Play Wal-Mart Bingo 

Explore Aviate 

Enjoy Urban Air

Sleep Over!

Bowling

Roller Skating

Play Checkers at Cracker Barrel
Visit the Wichita Art Museum

Host a Tasting Party

Visit the Humane Society and bring NO animals home

Swim at the lake

Show at the health food store with the Owens.  Get the healthy food tips.

Swim at the pool

Wii family game night

Go fishing

Go to Exploration Place

Prepare all the recipes in Greg's cookbook

Visit the zoo

Walk around Botanica

Paint with water guns (canvas or shirt)

Enjoy the amenities at Watson Park

Tie Dye

UFO day - finish a project

Play basketball

Baseball game

Camp out

Water balloon fight

Kids make supper

Backwards Day

Visit the Valley Center Historical Museum

Paper Airplane party

Build a blanket fort

Pick peaches

do Random Acts of Kindness

Well, that sounds like enough to do in summer!

Bird Watching at Sedgwick County Zoo

Today is a fabulous day because today we began our Summer Bucket List!  Our local zoo just reopened it's jungle building as the Tropics Exhibit.  It seemed like the perfect place to cross 'bird watching' off our list.  Horticulturalists added lots of beautiful orchids to the exhibit's collection of exotic plants. 

Phoenix is making her best orchid impression in the above photo.  Besides tropical birds, we also observed penguins and bald eagles.  It was a great opportunity to discuss the distinguishing characteristics of birds.  Greg and I even made an acrostic poem to help us remember what makes a bird different from other animals.

·       Beak or bill instead of jaws and teeth

·       Is hatched from an egg

·       Runs with two legs (aka bipedal)

·       Doesn’t have fur, covered with feathers