At just around 11:00 AM we loaded into our SUV and headed out for a family adventure. The fields were too wet for baseball and the crowds were too big at Busch Gardens, and I wanted pizza. We were going to get pizza for the baseball team after the game and when no e-mail came early on in the morning I started looking forward to that pizza. When I learned it was possibly not on the horizon I got sad and then remembered I could get my own pizza.
That was the start of everything. Daddy wanted pizza and daddy came up with a plan. We would get pizza and then head to a park to eat it. One of the best local places to get pizza, Shorebreak, happens to be close to one of the best local parks, Bayville.
After picking up pizza and drinks at 7/11 we headed to the park and the kids played and played and played, and mom and I ate some pizza. It was also a bit of a glimpse in the future. Roland was chased by three girls while Abigail ran off with a boy and Windsor made up new games to play with himself. That’s there personalities. Roland is somehow always finding girls to hang out with, Abigail has more boyfriends than I have fingers, and Windsor just wants to do his own things without care of social constraint.
Eventually it was time to go. The kids were getting unsteady on their feet which meant they were tired. Loading them back in the car turned into a bit of an issue as none of them wanted to go home. So I told them we wouldn’t go home, and we headed to the library.
It has been way too long since we went to the library and I had forgotten how much the kids loved it. They played with the fake food, made more new friends, picked out over 20 books to take home, and played on the library tablets. It was a good time and almost 4:00 PM when we left.
We left the house at 11:00 and didn’t get back to sometime after 4:00. That was a lot longer than I thought it would take to go to a park and then to the library but the kids had a great time. Roland read a book to himself and I found him at home surrounded by his stack of books. I read him The Jabberwocky and got them to bed after dinner.
It was an all around excellent day of family fun and outside of the pizza and drinks it was completely free. Sometimes we forget to take advantage of the parks and libraries in our lives, but we should value the free things as much as the paid. Yesterday we provided our kids hours of entertainment and didn’t have to fight the Busch Gardens or Zoo crowds to do so.
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