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More Beach Fun

Serendipitously our visit coincided with the vacation of our dear friends from State College Dick and Richard.

At the Wetlands Institute:

Cape May arcade venture:

Just a few of the awesome prizes for which you can redeem your tickets:

With his winnings:

At the Point:

Learning how to photoshop sunsets from across town into all of his pics:

Plop!

Beachy Keen

Field Park

It has been mentioned on this blog previously that Collin is a tough critic of all things baby. In this vein he has decided to review some of the local Oak Park, IL parks.

First up, Field Park. Field park is probably the closest to our house. It is located behind the prestigious (or so the real estate agents say) Horace Mann School (Mommy thinks there's a Horace Mann school in LA too? This guy must have been a real school-hugger). It is really two parks in one in that it has a tot lot and a separate playground for older kids. They are joined by a small picnic pavilion.

Positive:

• Rubber under all equipment.
• The equipment wintered well. Still looks new.
• Lots of things to spin, turn, and push at ground level for those unable to climb or even walk yet.
• AWESOME AWESOME FOUNTAINS. It's like a baby Las Vegas Bellagio.

Negative:

• No sun canopy
• The big kids from the other playground often spill over to the tot lot thinking they are hysterical playing on the baby equipment.
• The fountains break a lot. Mommy arrived one 90+ degree day to find them not only broken but the rest of the park too hot to play. Not good. We won't even discuss what happened when Mommy called the Parks and Rec. Department...
• There's a long weird shallow ditch walled-in by 2x4s. What's that for? Can't be anything good.

Field Park is already the location of some wonderful memories. Out of a total possible 4 Bellybuttons, Collin gives it 4 Bellybuttons!

Maestro

Tim and Jared were in town so we went to visit them at Jared's grandparent's house and then went out to dinner.

A sleeping Jared couldn't stop Tim from enjoying his crab legs.
It's like he knows what's going to happen to these lobsters.