Tending, Day 2

It's day two with the four grand-children and we are having fun.
We drove to Farmington Pond and practiced some fishing skills.
Their grandpa contributed a couple of new poles to the cause.

 Jacob with his Spider-man pole.

Emmas pole came all the way from Arizona with them. She got to use a hook.
She had two very close calls with a fish:


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Becca used a Barbie pole with a plastic fish on the end too.
She learned to cast and reel.

This big smile was from nearly catching a fish:

Picnic:

We went for an epic walk on the Farmington Creek Trail.
It's paved for two miles and it's level.

First we had to get past all the Geese:


                                   

It's more fun to walk in the grass than to stay on the trail:

I think we sat on every single bench:

Buffalo:

Our great-great Grandpa's memorial (Ezra T. Clark):

Leave it to the grandpa to put his grand kids in a tree.

On our return, the Geese were still there:

The kids walked far. Even so, they wanted to fish more because we saw the pond getting stocked.
Grandpa helped the kids  fish for about 30 more minutes while I stayed with baby Claire.
I parked her stroller under a big shade tree.
On the way home we drove through a Wendys and got a little food.
At home we had  ice cream, baths and then off to bed. Everyone was down by 7:30.
Claire was down much sooner.