November Park Marathon

The boys have 2 days off for parent teacher conferences and a 3rd for what I would call the beginning of deer hunt. Speaking of deer hunt, we have been hearing guns go off near us for a couple of weeks, while inside the house, so I can hardly wait until its official this weekend to see how that sound increases. It’s a little unnerving.

Today we tried an activity that I had hoped for better weather. However, the drizzle, breeze and gray skies made the adventure all the more fun. I somehow got this idea to do a “park marathon” to hit as many parks as we could. I was thinking of spending a couple of hours but it turned out to be FOUR! What was I thinking? Because it was wet I had the boys dress in their snow pants and boots. We would pull up to a park and they would run to the playground and play for 10 – 15 min. Dan felt very military with the walkie talkies to communicate with me if I were a little distance from them. I lost count of how many different slides they went down. Some were quite spectacular as they would hit the bottom of the slide only to look like they were heading into a pool as the water splashed out for quite a distance. They were wet, sandy and muddy but having a great time. After all they were pretending to be military guys and were on various operations or maneuvers. Such a boy thing! By the way LL Bean snow pants are fantastic for keeping water out!! We even logged every “operation”. For those who like detail here was our entire log for Operation Park Maneuvers. Full pictures can be found on our online family photo album.

12:00 Operation Information Pickup (got the mail)
12:05 Operation McDonalds – Dan bought cheap lunches for us
12:15 Operation REFUEL – gas was $2.03
12:30 Operation McDonald Park
12:50 Operation Sunnyside Park (police escort out of park)
1:10 Operation Mission Park (for picture only)
1:15 Operation Pickens Field
1:35 Operation Island Park 8 slide obstacle course
1:50 Operation Island Park “woodpark” (cut short by some beady eyes staring out from under a platform)
1:55 Operation picture taking (mom got side tracked looking for some Kodak moments with the remaining fall leaves)
2:05 Operation Nelson Park (for picture only)
2:10 Operation Mill Pond Park
2:25 Operation Chipp-a-waters Park (and grateful that the restroom was not locked for the season)
3:00 Operation Potter Park Playground
3:20 Operation Jameson Park
3:35 Operation Horizon Park (actually sunny and blue sky by this point)
4:00 Operation Industrial Park (just to be funny)