Sydney's graduation from preschool coincided nicely with a sunny and gorgeous 70+ degree day. More accurately, the afternoon I took off from work to go to Sydney's preschool program coincided nicely with a sunny and gorgeous 70+ degree day. And so to celebrate, when the school day was done, I took the kids to the Lake to play tourist for an afternoon.
They played the part perfectly.
Feeding popcorn to seagulls. Slurping on slushies. Shivering because we didn't bring jackets and the temperature was at least 10 degrees cooler than it'd been at home thanks to a breeze off the lake. Oh yeah, you'd never guess we're from around here and should know better.
We stayed warm by keeping moving. And climbing. The kids amazed me by asking to walk the full length of the pier. They wanted to climb the steps to the light house. And of course they had to climb on the anchors and other maritime artifacts displayed along the Lakewalk.
Who's excited to be done with preschool? Sydney raised her hand and shouted, "Me! Me! Me!"
Farther down the Lakewalk, we ventured off the path to search for fossils and throw rocks into the Lake.
How lucky we are to live so close to three quadrillion gallons of fresh water. How much luckier we would be if I could just remember to grab jackets when we see all that water up close.
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