Local Park

Well Rachel and I (Gavin) went off to the local park. We started off by flying Rachel's little kite on the athletics field next to the park, but it was all a bit of a challenge. The kite fly's on it's own and there was enough wind, but the challenge was getting Rachel to keep hold of the kite string and not let go the whole time. So as per usual the quote 'my enough” came out and we packed up the kite, then off to the park.

We started on the baby slide which is about 2m long and spent the better part of 30 minutes on it. Then the ice cream truck came along so we got an ice cream each because, believe it or not the sun was out and the weather was hot. (Hence the photo is proof of the sun).

Now that is where the fun started to end. Rachel decided after eating her ice cream that she wanted to go on the zip line. We did this a couple of times (which we have been on loads before) while we (Rachel) kept exclaiming ''again again’’ and then the expected happens, flat on our back and wailing as if there is no tomorrow. So we get over the tears and exclaim we want to go on the 360 degree swing. We start out fine and then again, wham, flat on our back again and more tears. So again we are in tears from shock and our biggest concern is that our shoes are dirty. (I.e. no bones had broken luckily, just more shock).

All in all, a good day.

Still it is hard to remember that face plants and bruises are part of life, seems like 30 million years ago that all I was was a bruise and stitches with some skin. (Let’s hope Rachel never gets into playing with matches).