Space Explorers

Aaron had Navy Leadership training all weekend so the kids and I were on our own. Saturday morning after lounging half the morning in our pj's we decided to head out to find a new park. We started by dropping some clothes off at the consignment store. As an added bonus, I had some money on the records there so I got paid $19. That's always a nice surprise. After leaving the consignment store we dropped our movies off and dropped some stuff off at Goodwill.

I knew the general area where this park was, but I didn't know exactly where it was. We headed down the correct street and lucky for us the park was on the right and very easy to see. We parked the car and headed out to explore. We found both the train depot and the petting farm. Unfortunately, despite the 70 degree day, those activities are closed for the season. They won't be open again until Memorial Day. We were just going to have to be happy playing on the playground equipment.

There were two playground areas seperated by a picnic area. One area looks like your average play area with slides, swing, tubes and the like. The other one is where the kids chose to play. The equipment looked like space ships. Caleb loves space ships these days. To him anything is a spaceship (i.e. the package of discs, the toy iron, etc.). Campbell is currently studying the solar system in school. She taught me a ton of space stuff that day. We spent two hours going to Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Uranus (which is now pronounced Urnus). I was informed that we could not go to Pluto because it is no longer a planet. Boy! It has been awhile since I was in school.

We grabbed some McD's on the way home. Caleb fell asleep as soon as we got in the car so he ate his cold when he woke up later. The rest of the afternoon was spent playing in the house. Aaron met up with us in the evening. We ate at a restaurant we hadn't tried before. It was good food but I will need to spend the next two weeks in the gym everyday to work it off.

Sunday morning, Campbell and I headed out to a baby shower while Caleb played with his friend Jake. Jake is almost 3 and lives down the street from us. I was very glad that he could play with Jake while Campbell and I went out. He had a great time doing everying boy. They threw balls down the stairs, played cars, and did lots of screaming. Campbell and I had a nice couple of hours together celebrating our friends new baby who is to arrive the middle of December.