Sweetie and I agreed summer seemed less full of activities this year -- me busier with a new job and having fewer days off helped that. But we packed a lot in.
Stewart Lake,
This is our nature walk to the natural springs and then the big hill we call "the mountain." We got to the springs, but this impending thunderstorm called off the hike up the mountain:
Free day at the Milwaukee Public Museum: Mr Bunches in the butterfly room
Us in the European village.
Mr F in front of the Native Americans hunting buffalo display. Clearly excited by it!
We only stayed about 1 hour at the museum. It was supercrowded and Mr Bunches was made nervous by the dinosaur display where the dinosaurs seem VERY real and there are thunder noises in the background.
Swimming, then swinging at the beach down the street from us.
This was when we went to go wading up the river, right at the start. Mr F slipped and cut his ankle, and while it wasn't bad I didn't want it to get infected so we cut the trip short. Then weather kept us from ever finishing the trip, one of three traditional summer activities we had to skip that we'd done every year up to this one.
The Vilas Zoo in Madison. Free, so we go all the time.
Sad story alert! This is a splash park where Oldest Daughter brought her son (my grandson) and I took the boys. While Mr F and the grandson had a great time, Mr Bunches kept coming over and telling us that there were "troublemakers" squirting him (as shown below). We both thought he was just having fun and saying they were troublemakers because of the squirting, which, you know, splash park. We learned after we left that it had really bothered him, that he wanted to play with the horse squirters but was trying to get the kids to stop squirting him, and that in fact he wanted our help. I felt guilty for days.
I took him back to the splash park a month later, and he was worried about the troublemakers being there again. So I stuck by him and when a kid tried to squirt him, I explained to the kid that he did not want to be squirted, and Mr Bunches finally had a good time there.
This is what happens when you swim several days in a row...
Mr F finished off July lounging in our lower level, where my home office used to be but now it's becoming a playroom again.
2 comments:
Swimming everyday washes all the color out of you!
Man, I'm glad I've never done that!
How long does it take to get your color back afterward?
The troublemakers thing is a good lesson to him about being clearer when letting you know something. Sad that that day wasn't as good, but you made it right later. That's life, right? We make mistakes and then learn from them.
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