Eagle Watching

Last Sunday, Alea and I went out for a “girl’s night” (as she says) and attended an Eagle Watch auto tour at the lake up the hill from us. We had so much fun!

We gathered at the first stop and got a map-Alea was in charge of tracing our way once we were in the car- watched an eagle movie and then began our journey. We made three stops where we got to look through spotting scopes and saw three big beautiful eagles-in the wild. They looked so amazing. They had small spotting scopes set up for the kids and Alea felt so grown up looking through them. I don’t know that she ever really saw one of the eagles through the scope, but she did see them in the trees across the river. The final stop was at a lodge and they had a show, with a live eagle participant and then we got to watch a releasing of an eagle, which had been contaminated with lead poisoning, into the wild. As the picture testifies, Alea had as much-if not more-fun sliding down the hill of ice outside the lodge than the whole releasing of the eagle!

It was so fun and we really bonded so I thought I’d share the “girl’s night” and pictures with everyone.