Sunday in the park with Noah

Today is Noah's birthday! I went to a park for his birthday party. There, he had some guests and a naturalist. We started by setting plaster o' Paris in tracks left by raccoons and deer. After that,  we walked around the boardwalk, and the naturalist talked about cicadas at an opportune moment (when they were being really loud) and told us neat stuff about them. If you catch a cicada, you should put it in a tin can, with the lid on, and mess with it. The cicada will start buzzing, and, with the echos from the can, it will be as loud as you can possibly imagine! It's almost as loud as Anna herself! And, if you turn on a large electric saw, large flies will start to attack it because they are parasites that infect cicadas, and the electric saw makes the vibrations of a cicada, so they will think that it's a giant cicada and will try to infect it. After that, we went along on our walk, stopping to talk about neat things sometimes, like polyspore mushrooms, which will burn for up to 63 hours, and doesn't need much oxygen to burn. After all of that, we finally got back to the plastered tracks, and they were all dried! We then ate the cake, and made a small mangonel that flung raw eggs high into the sky, which were nearly all intact when they landed, except for the ones that Anna jumped up and caught, which broke. After that, Noah&Anna opened their presents, including mine to them. After that, we all left. What fun! Happy hoppy snappy 'appy birthday to Noah! Anna's birthday was a few days ago. Noah&Anna are so great!