Last Saturday we drove out to Joaquin Miller Park, just below the Chabot Space Center, and the former site of Joaquin Miller's house. After a hike through the woods and around some branch houses in the making, we went to the base of the house site and found hundreds of frogs and tadpoles in the abandoned pool. Our time there was spent catching frogs and trying to convince the gregarious three year-old we befriended that little frogs shouldn't be squeezed so hard (they're not sleeping afterwards). Our day was finished after a stop at Smitten Ice Cream on College Avenue -- an upcoming Lafayette shop that produces super-creamy ice cream that uses liquid nitrogen to instantly freeze the ingredients. Yum!
