Date Night

While in UT, Stephen's mom treated us to a date night! We left IV with her (along with Daniel and Crystal's two) and headed off to Liberty Park with Daniel, Crystal and Matt. It would have been a triple date but unfortunately Matt's wife was unable to join us.
Luckily for us Crystal had two grocery bags full of bread that was too stale to eat, so we fed it to the hungry ducks instead. The ducks were not afraid of us at all and came right up to us which really scared me at first.

I wish we had more parks like this in AZ!

We managed to find a bench right on the water although the water was so stinky you really didn't want to be that close.

This is Limpy.

When we first showed up the ducks were scattered across the lake, but as soon as we started throwing our copious amounts of bread into the water the ducks flocked right to us. There were so many ducks in such a small space that sometimes they had to fight it out to get the pieces of food. Limpy was the result of such commotion. After the fight he limped the rest of the night and I resorted to hand-delivering him my pieces of bread. Such an epic tale for so meager a creature.

These guys were the crowd-pleasers. Who doesn't love a baby duck?

The ducks were super friendly (I almost typed frisky!) and would eat right out of our hands.

Matt was the adventurous one and tried feeding the duck right out of his mouth. Can you say GROSS?!I certainly wasn't brave enough to try that!

We all had so much fun. This probably lasted over an hour until we realized we were stealing all the ducks away from the little kids who came with their parents. We gave the rest of our bread to them so they could enjoy in the fun.