The weekend comes and goes

Typical stay-at-home weekend. Mrs. V had an appointment with Pam on Saturday morning, so Jr. V and I walked her up there. We then headed home, checking on the pumpkin patch and stopping at the play area beside the Multnomah Center for a bit.

The play area is due for a little maintenance. Especially the tire swing. This is likely due to the volume of larger kids that play here, and not traffic, since this play area isn't as heavily used as Gabriel Park.

We then headed down to the toy store, and dropped into Annie Bloom's for a bit after I snapped Saturday's picture post shot. I was happy to see that Annie Blooms carries Robert McCloskey books, which I remember fondly from my New England childhood.

Later that day we would all end up in Gabriel Park, accompanied by my Dad (visiting from the east coast), so Jr. V could show off his newly developed ability to cross the monkey bars without help. It was apparently "informal aerospace day" at Gabriel.... Not on the level of the space program coming to the park, but still. We had brought Jr. V's "stomp rocket" (a sort of mortar that fires with compressed air - you stomp on it. VERY.COOL.) and there was a group of people there with an "actual" model rocket, and later someone with a very large remote control plane.

Sunday would bring us back to the park with the glow-in-the-dark frisbee, a cranky Jr. V and the scooter.

We sure like living by the park. Espeically when the weather's as great as it has been!