Pre-Spring Break Day at the Parks

Unfortunately Michael’s team didn’t fare so well in their baseball tournament today, but that left us some time for a quick hike and a trip to “The Big Red Playground”.
We ventured over to Price Park near our home, which we’d never been too. It’s a relatively new park that’s basically a few small hiking trails. It has a couple nice places to sit on benches in the shade and what appear to be many decent fishing holes. We’ll have to go back with our poles next time.

As you can probably tell, Henry had to play a bit of catch up since his little legs don’t move quite as fast as they needed to.
The longest trail was almost a mile long, but it was too muddy to walk completely, so we cut the hike short and headed to Lost Mountain Park and one of the kids’ favorite playgrounds. I think it’s Oscar that named it The Big Red Playground oh so many years ago. Inevitably a game of tag breaks out and fortunately there were no bones broken.

Now the kids are off to Florida with Beth for a few days, but they have no idea where. I can’t wait for all of the reports from Orlando.
P.S. For those wondering, I don’t favor Henry over any of the other kids. He gets the most pictures because I have to follow him around the most. I can’t have him hanging off the monkey bars without supervision.

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