Nature Walk

So last Saturday, Jeremy had to be at school at 11, so I decided to drop him off and take the boys on a nature walk. I had read online that Schenley Park had a lake you could walk down to, so I figured we'd do that and take some pictures and enjoy the outdoors. I strapped Connor in the Bjorn and made Eli walk and off we went!

Well it didn't go exactly as planned. After asking a few people at the playground where the steps down to the lake were (online it said they were next to the playground) and following those instructions only to have to go turn around and go back because they were totally wrong, I decided to get out the stroller instead and just go walk across the bridge to look at the lake and call it good.

I'm glad we went with this plan, because when we looked out on the bridge, we saw this:

Yeah, lovely brown "lake". Not exactly what I had in mind, but Eli still thought it was cool, so it all worked out. :) And you can see how incredibly green everything is here! It's amazing. So we walked across the bridge to Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and looked at the lily pads in the pond and then walked back and ended at the playground.

That tall tower is Pitt's library (University of Pittsburgh) and a lot of those buildings are part of their campus. Now if you turn about 110 degrees to the right you see this:

If you were to go down that street ahead and to the right, you would wind around to CMU - where Jeremy goes. Pitt and CMU are right next door to each other.

So anyway, it wasn't exactly the nature walk I had in mind, but we still had fun! Connor zonked in the stroller and Eli got to run around and get really tired for his nap, so all in all I guess it was a success. :)

(above - views from/of the playground)

It was overcast that day - which also made it quite humid - so my pictures weren't as great as I hoped and I was sweating like a pig, so we'll have to try it again another day. There are a million trails all through the park, so maybe when I have my handsome husband with me to help carry one of our wee ones we can try again.