The Perfect Last Day of Vacation

Yesterday was the official last day of my vacation month and it was awesome . It was a beautiful spring day and I knew that I had to spend some time outside enjoying the weather. So I gathered up the gang - Sief, Oday (his brother) and his friend Kim to join me at a new park, Wildwood in Harrisburg. I'd never been to Wildwood so this was an adventure. As we walk up to the start of one of the hiking trails Sief says "I hope there aren't any ticks out here. I don't want to get Lyme disease." Jen, "What are the chances of that happening?" Well...Sief points out that the disease is endemic in the area, but we trudge on.

AS you can see from the picture - spring has not really sprung at Wildwood and if you look carefully you can see that it's really not that wild - note the highway in the background. Don't get me wrong it was a nice little park, just situated near a freeway. I think in the fall when the leaves change color it would be beautiful.
Anyways...back to the story.
We hike and then stop to take a short break at a picnic table. There is a tiny spider crawling across the table. I decide to try to get a close up picture of the little guy.

See his 4 beady little eyes looking at me. As I'm taking his picture the spider decides to jump at me and can you guess my reaction...I scream and jump out of my seat from this teeny tiny spider. I tried to play it off that the spider looked much bigger when looking through my camera.
Then we continue our hike. Sief stops to look at some shelf fungus

only to feel something moving on his ankle...dun duh duh
"A TICK!!!!!!!!!" It was definitely was a tick, sadly I do not have a picture we were too busy shooing it off of his leg. Thankfully, the tick had not bitten Sief and was just running around on his leg.
We started the hike back to the car and heard rustling in the leaves.
This time we saw a SNAKE!

If you look you can see the snake. Not really a scary snake - it's the same kind of snake I had as a pet in biology class in 8th grade.

That's the summary of our day in Wildwood Park. After that we headed to downtown Harrisburg and just walked around a while. We stumbled upon the Whitter museum and decided to catch the IMAX movie "Monsters vs. Aliens" in 3D! It was pretty cool - the 3D effect was neat, but the screen felt too close to my face.

The evening ended with making dinner at home and watching the movie Bedtime Stories! (Which was exciting because I got it from the RedBox before it's actual release date!)