Make Way For Ducklings

The girls and I met a man at a public fountain, who was creating bubbles with 2 recycled plastic cups. At first glance, I was a little nervous, but soon realized he was just really good at reusing items, like his broken fanny pack that was safety pinned shut, for example. He was super green and really nice!

(side note: Ella wears hair bands on her wrists wherever she goes...and she could find a million reasons to use them during her days. This time, it was to hold their dresses up! A post on that to come...)

I first noticed him because while the girls were playing in the fountain, bubbles started to appear around them, and over them and headed straight towards them! He was making them, just perfectly for the girls, creating this magical, bubble and fountain experience!! :) We started to talk and he was so informative.

He was telling me how the Tortoise and Hare statues were made by the same artist as the Make Way for Ducklings Statues, but that the Tortoise and Hare one wasn't nearly as well planned or special as the Make Way for Ducklings one, because it was placed where the sun was almost always hitting it, making it very hot in the summer.
I loved when he said something to the effect that,

"The ducklings monument is just special, because you can see that all the ducklings have been hand polished day after day, by all the children's little hands."

Oh, look! That's the guy right in back of them with the red hat. As we said goodbye, more children came and he made bubbles for them! How great is that?

Here are Ella's and Paisley's contribution to the polishing.

And then Ella wrote "I love Paisley" with a stick!