Feeding the ducks

April 11-13, my sister, Julie, and I drove to Great Falls, so she could spend time with all of my family that lives there. On Saturday, she spent the day with my mom and I spent part of the day at Gibson Park with a few of my brothers, their wives and their kids. Gibson isa huge park in Great Falls that has a duck pond. We stopped by the discount bread store and purchased a bunch of really cheap bread and bagels then headed to the park to feed the ducks, geese, seagulls, sparrows and anything else that will eat bread. It was so fun to watch our kids doing something that we did growing up. (Although, the birds have become MUCH more aggresive! Laynee was trying to feed some ducks and didn't notice a goose approaching her. Laynee was holding a piece of bread in her left and picking pieces off and throwing it with her right hand and the goose actually came up and ate bread out of her left hand when she wasn't paying attention. She didn't love that.) The highlight of the activity was watching my brothers, Kevin and Brian, "bowling" for seagulls. They would roll a bagel down the walkway and try to hit the seagulls and then watch and laugh as a seagull would try to pick up an entire bagel with its beak and fly away, while the other seagulls tried to get the bagel. The seagull with the bagel always ended up flying to the ground because the bagel was too heavy and then the other seagulls would attack the bagel. We laughed a lot watching this happen.