Day Trip to Delaware

 If you haven't noticed, we like to travel. Now that we are back in the States we are trying to visit States close by and make Lyndon's life goal of visiting every State (and also every country). We have talked about going to Delaware to just go to Delaware. We rented a car and drove down to for a day trip. It's about a three hour drive from the city. Our plans were to check out Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge and William Penn landing site.

 We spent most of our time at the Wildlife Refuge. There were a lot of little board walk hikes. We saw a lot of birds, ducks, geese, lots of different species of hawks, turkey vultures (so many of them), herons, other water birds. It was really cool to see groups of them fly up into the sky together. We also saw fiddler crabs, a fox meandering down the road (which meant it probably had something wrong with it), and a couple of snakes. Cosette saw the snakes. Poor girl was taking her time and was behind us a little bit on the trail. We heard some screams, and we bolted to where she was. Apparently two snakes had slithered across the trail where she was walking. She kept closer to our group after that.



It was WINDY!


Looking for fiddler crabs.

If you look closely you can see a couple getting ready to fight.


Sticks are their favorite. They are sometimes swords, shovels, and this time fishing rods. 



Fox sighting. 

Flocks of birds dotted the sky the entire time we were there. 

 We then drove to the William Penn landing site. It was nestled into this historic colonial town on the Tidal Delaware Water Trail. The town was charming. There is a statue of William Penn erected in the quad. Very usual historic town. It was cool to see a piece of history first hand.

 Then we went home. We listened to Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary. The kids have gotten into books on tape, well I guess now we call them audio books. We listened to it a couple times through. It's nice exploring different kinds of books with them.
,
The entire time we were in Delaware, we kept seeing signs that said "Delaware, the First State". Doing some Wikipedia research, I found that Delaware has this nickname because it was the first of the 13 colonies to ratify the US Constitution. Thanks Delaware for taking the lead on that one.

 We have another state to mark off our list and a day full of wildlife memories. I am pretty sure that Cosette will remember this day more than the rest of us, due to her snake encounter. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Traveling Half Way around the World

Image
We made it to Manila! We flew over the US and the Pacific Ocean to get here. Our total travel time was 55 hours. It was long but surprisingly not bad at all. Cosette was an angel and the Haneda Airport in Tokyo was like a hotel. If those two things had been any different attitude in writing would not be so positive. This odessy of a journey begun way before our first flight. Packing up our apartment for our subletters took a lot longer than we supposed it would. So instead of being refreshed and ready for the long trip over we were tried and I did not want to get out of bed. We got enough sleep to keep on going till our flight from NYC to San Fransicso where we tried to rest. That flight for me was the worst. Cosette did sleep but was up for a lot of it. The plane was cramped and Lyndon and I were seperated by the aile. Thankgoodness for kind and patient people who sat next to us. Playing at the San Fransico airport.   Our flight to Japan was awesome. We had a
Read more

Remote Learning Part 1

Image
Remote learning is over for now, thank goodness. We have been doing remote learning since March 20. We are experts at google classroom, zoom meetings, and google meets. It's been rough, but we did it!  This post is long and detailed about what each kid had to do everyday for school. It was intense. The kids did wonderfully. Their teachers are amazing! They worked around the clock to learn all the new technology, meeting with students individually. I received personal phone calls from them asking what they could do to help and also talking to my kids. I am so grateful for the teachers they had this year.  All three kids participated in remote learning. Each grade/teacher did something different. What they all had to do was answer and attendance question by noon, read for thirty minutes a day, and I-ready (an assessment program that helped determine where they were in math and reading).  Third Grade: Cosette's assignments were what she was doing in school. She completed two huge
Read more

Valentine's Day

Image
Happy Valentine's Day! This has become one of my favorite holidays in the last few years. This year especially I am really into it. It probably has to do with my sweet Lyndon who proposed to me on V-Day four years ago. Since then he has made Valentine's Day a fun and special day. He always surprises me with something fun. Usually we go eat some where fabulous and go see a ballet or opera. He likes to do something cultural on this speical day. This year I am getting into the spirit more. Cosette can do a lot more things. We made special Valentine's for our families and made yummy cookies. She kept sneaking cookie dough and eating it. She is my daughter.  The finished product waiting for Lyndon. I went to the Cake Boss Bakery last year to get Lyndon something for V-day and was inspired to make the dark chocolate bowls filled with chocolate covered strawberries. It was a lot easier that I anticipated. Oh, and that cloth on the table are the pajama pants
Read more