Waterfront Visit

Day Trip to Echo and the Waterfront

Grandma  bought a family  membership to Echo for Michael's birthday and of course Nora was added as part of the family!  So we went the other day and I was happy to observe the kids in their play.

Play is a lot of work.  So much to take in, observe, experience, touch, think, and try to understand.  We started out by Lake Champlain while we waited for the museum to open.

The kids watched the ducks swim and then proceeded to splash rocks into the water.  They watched the ripples and each tried to find an unusual rock to toss.

We climbed up the giant rocks and made our way to the swing.  The kids giggled as they went back and forth.  I looked out to the boathouse and the sailboats and yachts and wondered what that kind of life was like.  So close and yet another whole experience.

They had so many smiles and the water seemed to call to them again for they had to run back down and be by the water.

While we sat by the lake we spotted a white flower with a ladybug on it.  The kids were so excited to see and touch the ladybug.  We watched it crawl on the flower and then onto our hands.

So much to observe and experience and we hadn't even gotten into the museum!  

My next post will be inside the museum.  It is amazing to watch the kids

enjoy places with the eyes of a first time visitor.  Everything is interesting

to take in and really live in that moment.

Moments really do count.