Belair National Park

On Saturday we decided to go on a family picnic. I had been looking through some pictures earlier in the week and was reminded of a time that we went to Belair National Park. We had only been there one other time and it was when Amie was a baby. At the last minute I decided to grab our good camera so I could practice taking some photos. After a few stops along the way we made it there just in time for some lunch. The kids weren't really interested in eating, they just wanted to go play.

There is a normal playground there, plus a huge wooden fort, plus a hill with concrete tunnels running through it, plus a wooden pole climbing area.

 There was a guy there with his little boy who offered to take this family picture for us.

After the kids had run around for awhile we decided to get back into the car and explore the rest of the park. We found a lake and got out to do some exploring. Lachlan ran down to the water and suddenly there was all these ducks heading towards him. We had some left over bread rolls so I asked Buzz to get them. When he came back the kids and I were surrounded by about 30 ducks! He gave the girls some bread to start giving to the ducks but the ducks started getting very excited. They weren't scared of people at all. The white one was nearly as tall as Haylie. Th girls started to freak out and ran back to the car. Buzz ended up standing on a rock and feeding them all by himself. When the ducks realized all the the bread was gone they walked in a line back to the water. It was so funny to watch.

We all had a great day and decided that we would really like to go back again and take some more of our family with us!

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Just for fun I went back and looked at pictures of our previous trip to Belair and I found this one. It was taken in August 2008 so Lachlan would be about 20 months old.

In this picture he is 8 years and 7 months old. He has definitely lost all of his baby fat.