Manly Adventures

When I was a little girl, I'd go on "Daddy Daughter Dates." So when Bracken left on a special outing with Brian, I'd say, "have fun on your Daddy date!" I have now been corrected. Apparently, that is a very unmanly name for a guy outing. So Brian and Bracken have coined the term "Manly Adventure" for their not-Daddy-dates.

Bracken went bat researching with Brian again last night. He prepared by dressing himself in pajamas, blue rain boots, his super hero cape, and filling his Cat-in-the-Hat backpack with cookies, popcorn, books, and a dry erase board. He was so excited to go, and stayed outside and had Brian pull him on his little blue bike with a rope until it was time to go.

And here's an excerpt out of Bracken's journal from their last bat researching trip, just because I think it's cute:

"I went on a manly adventure with Daddy to do bat research. We went up a high mountain in the truck and I got to sit on his lap in the front seat on the dirt road. When we got to the main road I sat in my caarseat because sometimes a main road is pretty dangerous...

I saw lots of deer too. Not a hundred billion, just a little bit and some more. Probably only almost twenty-thousand deer...

I want to go bat researching with Dad again. We didn't see any bats though. Daddy said we were listening for them but I didn't hear any either."