WSU Grizzly Bears

Bryce and Deacon were such great tag-a-longs today, cheerful as ever throughout all our tedious errands. As one errand took us to Pullman (oh the horrors of an eight mile drive), we stopped to see the WSU research grizzly bears. What a great day for it. Four large bears were out: two romping in the field, one napping, and one in clear view playing in a water tub; plus four frolicking baby bears. After a short time gazing at the bears in awe, Bryce and Deacon remembered that they'd thought to bring their trusty "guns" along. Both raced to the car and out came the plastic yellow/orange/green shotgun and the brown plastic riffle. I quickly wondered whether or not a good mother would let her children pretend to shoot research bears. At that point Bryce turned to me and said, "We've got to tell Daddy about shooting these bears." (Alas, I was camera-less, and I'm too daft to figure out how to transfer a photo from my cell phone to the computer.)
Thankfully we were the only visitors there, and none of the researchers shooed us off.