Yesterday Owen and I went a thrifting and found a few summer clothes for him. Then we had lunch at a new (to us) sushi place where the sushi chef enjoyed making silly faces at Owen from over the bar (and Owen back at him), fed the koi in the pond in front of us, and generally seemed to enjoy having a kid to entertain during the afternoon lull. We took some sushi by the office for Abram who was busy grading papers and played at the park for an hour and a half in the glorious sun while he finished up work. We came home for a quick dinner of leftovers and headed back to the park to visit the Loyalty Day Carnival. We're not sure who is loyal to what or whom, but we did have fun at the carnival and managed to spend $21 in no time - $20 on ride tickets and $1 of Owen's own money on a game. Owen was a bit disappointed that he did not win a goldfish with the pingpong balls he bought and tried to throw into the goldfish bowls, and we talked about how he could save his money and go to the pet store and buy a goldfish for less than $1. He did, however, enjoy the rides; he could ride most of them this year - some alone and some with Daddy:
the tea cups
the fun house (where he went through again and again)
a spinning, swinging boat.
Although some of Abram's students reported that the carnival was "sketchy," we found it (this year and last) to be a nice, clean carnival - very family friendly with mostly kiddie rides. I'm not sure what standards they hold carnivals to, but in my experience this is probably the least sketchy one I've ever attended.
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sketch factor may increase at night, but looks like fun during the day. Has Owen grown about a foot since your last visit?
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