Make Paradise...Tear Up A Parking Lot!

Sunday afternoon we ventured out to Occoquan to feed the ducks. We stopped in our tracks when we approached our usual parking lot. Behold.

They stayed in this pose for about 15 minutes, until we all started to shiver. (Cody later reported to Pop-Pop, "There were three excavators! They were digging up the parking lot to fix pipes! One was a Samsung! And there was an impact hammer! The workers were not there, though. It was Sunday. They were resting."

We then went to feed the ducks, who were continually accosted by accompanied by geese and seagulls. Watching their feeding methods was funny. Cody carefully tore up the bread, threw as hard as he could, tried to distribute his crumbs evenly and shouted encouragement: "Now ducks! Do good sharing! Use your manners, seagulls!" Cordelia, upon being given a whole slice of bread to tear, flung the entire thing into the river, then turned to Jonathan, pointed imperiously, and demanded exclaimed, "Have some more! More bread please! Give it to me. NOW!"

The best moment was when Cody, distracted by something, turned his head just in time to see a seagull fly at his face and grab a whole slice of bread out of his hands. He was too dumbfounded to be afraid, and so it struck him as hilariously funny. We just giggled and he said, "Mom! That seagull swooped down and just stole all my bread! He snatched it!" We then shouted "Stop, thief!" many times, each of them funnier than the last.

"Come back here! Stop, thief! Stop flying!"