Last stop on the birthday train with our friends.....feeding the ducks

After eating ice cream and walking around Bridge Street, we drove downtown to the art museum area to feed the ducks. I had stashed a loaf of bread per girl in the back of the van....just for the part of the trip. Thankfully the weather held up, and we were able to feed the ducks. They are used to being fed and are pretty friendly, er uh, agressive. The clue read, "Will these little critters gain weight while are here feeding them? At least TEN pounds I'd say..with all the bread we have on hand!!"

The girls had a lot of fun as we finished our day here..then got a quick drink at Sonic and met their parents to hand them off around 3:30 p.m. so that Abigail and I could head home to prepare dinner and do our last 3 activities..making it a total of 10 things on her 10th birthday. Keep watching....I'll post those soon.

....as soon as we got out of the van, we were met by hungry critters...
..once we were done with feeding them...the girls posed for one final picture....
...the girls hard at work..
..this duck was interesting to me because his beak was sage green and he had a purple stripe on his side...though the colors did not come thru as true here....

Our next stop.....Ice cream..

After spending time with the puppies, kitties, hamsters, mice, gerbils, birds, fish, frogs and various other critters, we headed to Bridge Street to get an ice cream cone from Maggie Moos. The clue there said this...Don't you just love ice cream? Especially when you get to choose any topping you like...from over TEN choices??" They did enjoy making their choices...and it was hard. We walked around afterwards while eating the ice cream...then headed to our final stop of the day.

Our next stop on the birthday adventure train....

Abigail is an animal lover..no doubt about it. After lunch we headed to Pet Smart to make a donation to their animal charity of the week, which happened to be the Limestone County Animal Shelter. Each girl made a $10 donation, then petted the puppies they had available for adoption. They all picked out one they wanted to take home..but fortunately, I was able to dodge the bullet on that one :) We went inside and visited the cats as well as the fish, hamsters, and other critters for a while before heading off for our next adventure.

..Abigail petting the puppy (a lab mix) she had picked out, if only she could have taken one home....
..the girls posing in front of one of the many tanks of fish they enjoyed viewing.....
..Abigail and another dog...maybe THIS was her first choice...

....Abigail with "my" little black and tan puppy..the one I would have taken home if I had gotten one--lol

Next stop on the birthday train..lunch

After getting their nails painted, the girls were starving (and so was I)! So, we headed towards the other side of Madison. Hoping that the pizza buffet would be spread(and finding it isn't on Saturdays), we stopped at Pizza Hut. Thankfully the girls were quite pleased with a large extra cheese pizza and I enjoyed the salad bar. While stopped here, we also opened gifts. Abigail was thrilled with her treasures..but most of all, with time spent with two of her special friends...."J", Abigail and "M"...
....two silly girls who love each other a lot....
..Abigail and her buddy "M" who have been close for several years....I think they'll always be good friends....

..It's a book and it's Pokemon...DOUBLE points for that :)