Park Week- Day 8

Day 8, we got off to a really bad start. Jeremy was gone all day yesterday on a balloon build and was very tired and stiff today. For the rest of us, there was no Park Week yesterday. I came down with a cold, so didn't feel up to walking to a nearby park with the three kids. Obviously the cold is still around, so I didn't feel that great today.
We finally did get out in the late afternoon and headed up to American Fork. Maybe it was the weather (but it's been raining most of Park Week anyway so I don't think it was). Maybe it was how we were feeling (probably). Maybe it was that American Fork just isn't as pleasant to us as Pleasant Grove. I hope nobody takes offense at that. It's just personal opinion. Whatever it was, it was not the best Park Week day. We only had time to go to one park before going home so Jeremy could get to work. It took us four tries to get to one park.

The first park we went to had not the most pleasant looking playground, it was old and had a big metal trashcan right at the bottom of one of the slides. We stayed in the car.
The next park didn't have a parking lot and the streets were so narrow, I didn't think it was wise to try to park anywhere along the street.
The next park looked decent enough, except I didn't want to have to deal with parking on the street again.
Finally, I KNEW of a park we could go to, one the kids and I had been to before, and I know we had been able to park there before. Here's where we went:

Robinson Park (American Fork):

No actual parking lot next to the park, but enough room on the street that many cars were parked diagonally. Comfortable that way. And the park is on the same lot as the American Fork Library, so the library has parking.
It was raining when we got there, but there was no way I was going to keep the kids from playing at this park. Jr. Jr. was asleep so Jeremy stayed in the car with him. The rain chased everyone else away so we had the playground to ourselves. The kids loved playing in the rain and I hid under the trees with the camera. I don't like the idea of the baby being in the rain, but letting the older kids play in it like this feels so good and reminiscent of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest. Hurray for rainy Park Week.

We finally decided it was time to go when it started hailing.

This is Jr. saying "Ow," because the hail was hitting him on the head.

It was pouring down as we headed home. And it was an adventure getting everyone and everything inside.

So even if we're not feeling well, at least we got out in the rain.

It was a rainy family day.