Labor Day

On Labor Day we took the opportunity to meet our friends, the Grafs, for lunch at Rick's Boatyard Cafe. After lunch, Kayla texted her mom (from the restroom) and asked if we were going to the park. And so began Tony's and Mark's hunt for something close by. My request was a park with shade! It was an extremely warm day and this Indiana-summer-survival-by-air-conditioning-only mom could only imagine spending the next hour on a park bench in the hot summer sun. (I'm such a wimp.)

Well, I should take a moment to say that probably the only thing more disturbing for me on a personal comfort level than hot sun would be motion sickness, which I seem to come by easily. So with that knowledge you will completely understand how frustrated I was when we entered Eagle Creek Park at 3:42 pm looking for a playground big enough for our kids to play on and finally settled on the best thing we could find somewhere around 4:38 pm. Ugh! If we hadn't paid a $5 entrance fee in the first place, we would have never driven up, down and literally all around the crazy park searching for these playgrounds that we could see but never find the right road or path to get us there! I have since concluded that Eagle Creek Park is really for those poor souls stuck in the metropolis of Indianapolis who don't want to drive very far to enjoy nature. It was not a park as I know it.

But the highlight of the day had to be when our very patient 10 yr old said, "I'm pretty sure that all the roads in this park spell 'Good Luck' in cursive and we've been driving around 'good' the whole time!"