Wednesday, April 02, 2014

A Day Off

A couple weeks ago, Meredith went to school sick for most of the week. They had "Discovery" tests scheduled; she had a pretty bad cold, but she pressed on through the week. On Friday, I gave her the day off. I will preface the following pictures by saying that she slept an hour and a half late AND took a nap that afternoon. So there WAS actual rest involved. But it was a great day.
No denying that. 


It was one of the first beautiful days of spring and we decided to go to Overton Park. Meredith made a scavenger hunt for us, which included researching items to add to the list on the internet and recopying it three times. All in about 15 minutes. Work gets done so easily when we're inspired, aye?


We started out on the trails. Tree hugging was entirely optional. 


This guy did NOT get hugged. 


We looked for signs of spring. It gets talked about a lot lately, but I can't go without saying: this park is an amazing gift. 


This is the fairy garden. It's amazing when the crape myrtles are in bloom. Mer snuck back to leave something in the garden. Still don't know what.


The hunt took us through the forest and then to most of the Overton Park landmarks...the College of Art, the Levitt Shell, the Doughboy statue.


She wanted us to find when the park was established. This must have come from the internet research. 


There was then a long, beautiful run to back to the car. Being truly warm and outside for the first time in 2014—and then faced with a wide open golf course (all that stands between you and the car that will take you to Five Guys), a girl will run.










5 comments:

keddi and Papa said...

Definitely worth saving!

Unknown said...

These are the days parents dream of before having kids :) Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

The portugee economy is in the toilet, and droves of it's citizens are fleeing to neighboring Spain to work just to put food on the table! Those who don't go to Spain are swimming, or jumping on bannana boats to go to Angola or Mozambique just to sell their body for cod to feed their families. The slightly better off portugee are flying to Brasil to live in a favela that is much better than the poor, decrepid conditions they live in now; at least here they can eat.

The portugee are an ignorant bunch stuck in a mental time-warp that only focus on a national soccer team that has never won a single Euro or World Cup and "how" good things were in the distant past rather than focusing on their now deteriorated, non-existant economy, and how bad things really are today.

This is "why" they can't seem to see the log stuck in their eyes but see the splinters in everybody elses eyes. I do find it ironic that they are racist toward Spain, Angola, Mozambique and Brazil only to later go look for a better life in these countries!!

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*portugal is a shit country! DO NOT VISIT PORTUGAL! Those people are anti-Spanish and Brazilian, Mozambican and Angolan Racists!

Lauren Thrasher said...

I was just scrolling through random blogs and found yours. This gave me a great idea of what to do with the kids I might nanny for!

Lauren

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