alligator park

We went on a nature hike at a park in Sugarland.  It's where our church stake center is, so it's not too far from us.  When we got there we found out it was an alligator preserve... yikes! The kids had so much fun hunting for alligators. Every little stick in the water, or ripple of waves was CLOSELY inspected by the kids. We didn't end up seeing any alligators, but that's mostly because the lake was covered with an invasive species of plant that had taken over just in the last few months...

After a while on the bridges, we decided to walk around the lake on a little path. We didn't make it the whole way around because I was being eaten alive by the mosquitos and it was nearing dinner time.  We did find lots of tracks, deer, alligator, horse and something that looked like a dog (maybe a fox? maybe a dog?).

The stick obsession continues...

The kids also saw leaf cutter ants. It was really cool watching them move little bits of leaves here and there.

Then we left and picked up some free pizza on the way home. I got a bunch of "free mini murph" coupons at that Humane Society Fall Festival.  They are good forever, but I wanted to use them before I forgot about them. They turned out to be really cute. Each kid got to make their own pizza however they wanted it.  Fun dinner!