Time at the Park

So it rained all yesterday, but today is perfect (go figure). After being cooped up inside, we (and everybody else) took advantage of the sunshine and went to the park. The boys totally enjoyed it, and Koa was great about staying with Kawelo, or getting him to follow him to where he wanted to play (usually the big twisty slide). There was one incident ... the boys went and hopped on the merry-go-round, which had kids already on it and a "responsible" adult pushing it around and round. As soon as they hopped on, the lady started pushing as fast as it could go - it didn't take Koa too long before he said "I think this is enough..." at which time she did stop the ride and let Koa off. I was not fast enough in getting Kawelo off before she started the spinning merry-go-round of death back up at warp speed. Another (older) kid jumped off, and seeing what fun that was, Kawelo started to follow suit ... luckily this woman had enough brain cells to stop the contraption, so that when he did hop off it wasn't pulling the centripital force used in astronaut training. Kawleo jumped off and started running toward Koa and the big twisty slide ... ever been to a minor league baseball game where they do the dizzy bat race? Well, Kawleo did his own version of that favorite between-innings entertainment, only it wasn't so funny. He ended up eating wood chips, and has a nice little scrape on his leg. However, as we were at the park on a perfect day, he didn't have time for crying - he just dusted himself off and went to catch up with Koa. Ahh, good times.