The 7th of August, 2008.
Yesterday, Eliz and I went down to Coolidge Park, which is about 15 minuets from our house. The park is by the river and is of a nice size. There is a wooden Merry-go-round, but that is not what we were aiming for. At the park there is also a large water fountain, which is flat to the ground so that you can approach it. A lot of people do, in fact people bring there swimsuits and run in and out of the water fountain. This is what our plan was, well Eliz's plan anyway.
Recently, well the last few months, Eliz has wanted to go 'down to the fountain' but when we have arrived there, she would not touch the water, much less go into the water. She would just climb the stone statues of animals which surround the periphery of the water fountain.
Well yesterday, after deciding to venture the water fountain again. We hurried to get ready. The morning heats up quite quickly here, and by 10 am we are in the 90's. We generally (well I do anyway) aim to leave the around half past ten, but it is not always posable. Yesterday we left the house around 10:30 and got to the park at ten to eleven.
After we unloaded the stroller of the towel and drinks. I sat down and so did Eliz. I asked her if she wanted to go up to the water and cool her feet. She did not want too... We sat by the fountain (there are some stone steps which people sit on.) After a few minuets I told Eliz that I was going to cool my feet and I got up. It felt very nice to put my feet into the spraying water. After a moment Eliz came up but she would not go into the spray. The fountain is rather big and somewhat loud, so I could see why it might be some what intimidating. As we stood there, children were running about higgledy-piggledy, then Eliz walked over to one of the stone animals and climbed on it a little, then a little water shot from the mouth of the stone animal. Eliz put her hand in the spray. The spray died away, and Eliz got down. After a moment she went up to one of the columns of water and let some of the water spray her gently. Eliz laughed and ran away from the stream. Then after a moment she was back, and into the water laughing, then out again, back in again and now fully immersed in the water from the fountain laughing like a fool!
It was a lot of fun!
Yesterday, Eliz and I went down to Coolidge Park, which is about 15 minuets from our house. The park is by the river and is of a nice size. There is a wooden Merry-go-round, but that is not what we were aiming for. At the park there is also a large water fountain, which is flat to the ground so that you can approach it. A lot of people do, in fact people bring there swimsuits and run in and out of the water fountain. This is what our plan was, well Eliz's plan anyway.
Recently, well the last few months, Eliz has wanted to go 'down to the fountain' but when we have arrived there, she would not touch the water, much less go into the water. She would just climb the stone statues of animals which surround the periphery of the water fountain.
Well yesterday, after deciding to venture the water fountain again. We hurried to get ready. The morning heats up quite quickly here, and by 10 am we are in the 90's. We generally (well I do anyway) aim to leave the around half past ten, but it is not always posable. Yesterday we left the house around 10:30 and got to the park at ten to eleven.
After we unloaded the stroller of the towel and drinks. I sat down and so did Eliz. I asked her if she wanted to go up to the water and cool her feet. She did not want too... We sat by the fountain (there are some stone steps which people sit on.) After a few minuets I told Eliz that I was going to cool my feet and I got up. It felt very nice to put my feet into the spraying water. After a moment Eliz came up but she would not go into the spray. The fountain is rather big and somewhat loud, so I could see why it might be some what intimidating. As we stood there, children were running about higgledy-piggledy, then Eliz walked over to one of the stone animals and climbed on it a little, then a little water shot from the mouth of the stone animal. Eliz put her hand in the spray. The spray died away, and Eliz got down. After a moment she went up to one of the columns of water and let some of the water spray her gently. Eliz laughed and ran away from the stream. Then after a moment she was back, and into the water laughing, then out again, back in again and now fully immersed in the water from the fountain laughing like a fool!
It was a lot of fun!
2 comments:
Wotcher!
Hi, Goob! Love the new format.
I'd like to see a post here about your yoga blogging and twittering and stuff.
Kissy kissy!
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