Yet Another Playground Post
The gigantic slide
Annika, yesterday--new summer clothes
Glamour magazine, I await your call
City view of Vaihingen
I'm sure that it gets pretty dull, these endless posts of me describing yet another visit to the playground. I wish I had something more exciting to tell you, but the trip to the playground was the highlight of our day. A day that started out sunny and promising. Josiah cleaned up both Annika's and his own room. Both of them...to me, that means the day is going to be grrrrrreaaat!
It gets better. We set off to find this mythical park in the spring sunshine, we found it and there were a few kids there, but they went back to kindergarten, so we had the whole park to ourselves. What, I don't like to share? Well, I don't, really, but that's not the topic at hand. No, it meant that I could let Josiah and Annika run to their heart's content and not be constantly monitoring them for infractions of justice (say, not taking turns with other children, climbing up the slide instead of going down, etc.). That = bliss. We played and played in the sunshine, had a nice snack, went down the huge slide. Seriously, it was incredibly fun, even for a 30+ year old. The zip line was awesome.
After we played ourselves out, we walked the short distance back to the base, had a little lunch, and then Josiah and Annika promptly fell asleep and stayed that way for almost three hours...long enough for me to get completely engrossed in my new book The Secret River by Kate Grenville. It's about the founding of the convict colony in New South Wales, Australia, a subject I remember being obsessed with in 1987. It's fiction, and so far, it's pretty good. I'll let you know how it turns out.
A great day, all in all. Enjoy the pictures. Sorry for the repetitiveness of the subject matter...
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