Last Saturday, Dust, NJ and I went to the Ernie Miller Nature Center in Olathe. I am always looking for a new place to take NJ for a walk. It was small but nice. I was used to the Springfield, MO Nature Center which is quite large.
The one thing that was interesting was that there was a birthday party going on. That was a new concept for me---birthday parties at a nature center. There were people dressed up along the pathway in costumes portraying nursery rhymes/stories. When we passed Johnny Appleseed, I thought he looked familiar. And I was right. We ran into his wife coming out of the nature center. We will have to tease him about being Johnny Appleseed.
Is a birthday party at a nature center a geeky thing to do? Maybe for a pre-schooler it would be cool. Who knows, NJ might have one there some day.
I think when NJ is older and we can take him on the unpaved trails the nature center will be a little cooler. It was nice to get out of the house, though, and see someone we knew in a Johnny Appleseed costume.
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ReplyDeleteI worked at that nature center in high school for extra credit. My teacher was the director. I had to sit by a prairie dog and explain everything I knew about them to anyone who walked by for 8 hours. I remember being ready to go home, very boring.
ReplyDeleteI don't think nature center is the first pick for most kids for their birthdays?! But maybe? Who knows?
ReplyDeleteDid they have stop for the Song of Hiawatha? That's always a positive way to introduce kids to native american culture.
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Why would that be geeky? Kids love the outdoors and animals and adventures.
ReplyDeleteA nature center birthday sounds very portland to me. And they're suppose to be so cool up there! I say do the cheapest possible birthdays til the kids are old enough to ask for something else! But I guess that refers back to the last post!
ReplyDeleteIf a nature center party sounds very Portland, then I'm confused since golden is in the midwest. Or, oh, I'm confused now.
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