Day at the Park
Will’s aunt Kristie (my sister) was in Atlanta the other week. Unfortunately, her husband, uncle Cass, wasn’t able to make it – hopefully next time we’ll get to see them both.
Will had lots of fun hanging out with K. Several of the books he has were gifts from her, so she got to read them to him in person. Will learned the word “Lamborghini” the other day and kept insisting that K’s rental car was one. “Lamborghini, Lamborghini!” he would say – in a not-quite-accurate pronunciation that only a two-and-a-half year old child can intone.
Will also enjoyed playing in his swimsuit in a bucket full of water while his mother and his aunt Kristie watched and laughed. He seemed a little too big for the bucket to me, but that didn’t stop him from having a blast in it.
My parents came into town from Greenville, SC for the last day that K was here. That morning we ate at the Original Pancake House in Peachtree City, and then we all went to the park. It was a park near our house, right behind the Peachtree City Library. They have a big playground for kids, a large, grassy field for picnics. And it is all on Lake Kedron, so there is water around and there are many, many ducks (and geese) all demanding to be fed.
The playground is one of Will’s favorite places to play. They have a giant metal structure consisting of ramps and bridges and towers with slides coming down from every tower and various other things with which to play in each tower. They also have swings, and Will loves swinging in a swing. He also likes playing on slides. There is a playground near our house to which we walk regularly, and Will loves to climb on it and slide down the slides.
But we didn’t actually hit the slides and swings until after we walked in the field to play with the ducks.
We brought a bunch of old bread with us – specifically to feed to the ducks and geese. This made us quite popular: the sheer number of ducks and geese that surrounded us was quite a spectacle. There was much in-fighting amongst them, too – some a$$hole ducks and geese were starting fights to keep the others away from the food. We also saw a family of mallards by the lake, and they were very pretty.
So after beating back the army of marauding, malnourished mallards, we went to the playground so Will could swing in the swings and slide down the slides.
After the day at the park, we went home (to get out of the sweltering heat and humidity) and did nothing. There is nothing like hanging out in lazy-town on the weekends. Unfortunately, we all had to say goodbye to Kristie, Franny (what Will calls my mom), and Grandpa. But it was a fun weekend.