June 08, 2003
River Meadows Park
Today we spent the afternoon at River Meadows Park, near Arlington, which is right where Granny Bo grew up. All of us think that is really cool! We picked up bread, cheese, fruit and cookies to make a picnic before we left town, and ate sort of near the river when we got there.
A patch of flowers near where we had lunch:
After lunch, we walked down to where Jim Creek runs into the Stillaguamish River. It was fairly secluded there, and the creek is pretty shallow, so it's a good place for the girls to play. The path to the creek takes about 20 minutes, and it's very pretty and green along the way.
A bridge that crosses a tiny creek along the path:
The girls were being very funny, and I wish I could remember all the hilarious things they said. We were walking through the meadow, and Katrina had a piece of grass that she decided was a whip. She asked Abby if they could play horse, and Abby said no, then Katrina said that she wouldn't whip her very much, and then Abby agreed. Also, Abby had, "the agony of dirt in her shoe" along the way.
When we got to the creek, they found sticks and walked around in the water for a while.
After they got tired of that, they started playing in the sand by the riverbank. They decided that it was called "smuck" and that it was a very special kind of mud. This kept them entertained for a very long time, until I had to drag them away.
While we were there, a bunch of emergency vehicles crossed the bridge that goes over the creek on the way to the park, and when we got back to the parking area, there were ambulances, fire trucks and police cars all over the place.
The red arrows mark where the emergency vehicles were.
I was a little concerned, as they all seemed to be surrounding my car, but when we got down there, I couldn't figure out what had happened, and there was nothing wrong with my car!
We got home with only a little bit of slowdown in Everett. Abby slept all the way home, and Katrina learned how to add fractions with different denominators. They've both showered now, so hopefully any lingering smuck has been washed down the drain!
The rest of the pictures are here.
Posted by Rachel at June 8, 2003 07:58 PM