Despite prepping as much as possible for the heat (frozen water bottles, sleeveless shirts and sunhats, etc.) the weather was a bit too much for us and we were all ready to go home before we'd even used all our tickets. Nevertheless I want to remember some good moments from the Parish Picnic.
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| (This pic actually stolen from Julie's blog from last year, but same idea.) |
First, it was fun to see Clara get excited for different rides and to ride those rides unafraid. She rode the helicopter ride twice (once with Jack, once with Zoey and Greta), the fire engine ride, the spinning monkey ride, and the dinosaur ride. She seemed to really like all of them and I really liked that she had young kids to ride them with and share in the enthusiasm.
It was also enjoyable and slightly nostalgic to be at All Saints and especially to go in the gym, where I haven't been in years. I still remember the mirror backing to the trophy case, which I would glance at basically every time our classes entered or left the gym, same when I was older and left gym mass.
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| Jane tries to keep up with the big kids climbing all over the bleachers. |
But the best part of the Picnic was riding the Scrambler with Jack. That has always been my favorite ride, and I've never gone to a theme park or fair or anything similar with Jack before. I sat on the inside because he's bigger, and he still tried to smoosh me against centripedal force, and his whoops and sound effects made me laugh a lot, actually. He also really wanted to give the ride operator a high five but we had to wait until our cart lined up just right with where the dude was standing, and then the guy wasn't ready for it and missed, which also made us laugh. The ride was like a really enjoyable three minute date, haha.
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