28 Days of Nor Cal Adventures: Day 2

DAY 2: Freshwater Park (August 21st)

This being a pretty busy week, I decided that the best options for getting us out of the house this week would be to simply go to a different park every day.  I really wanted to go to as many parks that we hadn't been to as possible.  I recalled a friend of mine mentioning going to Freshwater Park last week, so I picked this park for our first stop.

Gordy, of course, went right for the playset and slide.  This kid would live in a tree house with slides and swings if that were an option.  He had blast running around a new playset.

Next, both of the boys ran for the sandbox.  I don't think either of them had ever seen an actual sandbox before, so this was a WAY new experience for them.  AJ immediately wanted to make a sand castle, so that was pretty much it for him, until we went for the water.

We all noticed that one of the swings had been broken from the top.  Instead of a typical reaction of a "normal person" (which would be something like "ah, that sucks"), Todd thought "Hey, I can climb up there and fix that".  Well, it didn't work.  But his ability to shimmy up the pole inspired him to start doing pull-ups.

Gordy wanted to do pull-up too!

Finally we made it to the water.  The last time I had been to Freshwater Park was 8 years ago, and the swimming hole had still been under construction.  Never had I imagined that the swimming hole would be this nice.  It was awesome.  I felt bad for not bringing the boys' swim trunks (for like 30 seconds, until I remembered it was cold and over cast).  They still had fun and we did let them wade in the water for a little bit.  I promised them that the first Sunny day next week I will bring them back for a swim.