A Morning at the Park

A couple mornings ago Ruby, Rosy, and I went to the park.  We tried to beat the heat and left the house at 8:30.  We were the only ones there except for a minivan with an older man inside who I think might be living there.  Just speculation. 

Mineral Wells park here in town is wonderful.  Most of it is in the shade for the whole day.  This park holds a lot of history in our town back to pre-statehood.  It was the sight for the first "Bedlam" game back in 1890something.  I'm bad with these dates.

Ruby swung for a long time, she played on the little slide and the wavy medium slide.  But then she decided she wanted to go down the spiral slide.  It's not real tall to a grown up, but I imagine to a 2 1/2 year old it looks huge!  She's been down it before, but one of the cousins was there to go down with her.  I think she only remembered she'd been down it before because once she got seated and just about let go she locked up!  Then she was saying, "Red!  Hold my hand!  Red!  Come up here! Red!!!" 

It was too tall for her to reach my hand.  And she wouldn't back up for nothing.  I went to see if I could go up the back way, but there was this tunnel I wasn't sure I could get through.  Gotta love that!  I went back to the slide and tried to coax her down again.  Not happening!  So, I kicked off the flops and climbed up the slide.  I got close enough that she would let go and we slid down.  She wanted to go back up.  Not hardly!

I'm sure Mr. Minivan and Rosy loved that show!!!