The DeGaetano Family Blog: An outing with our new friends!

Olivia made a new friend at Greenwood Montessori School. She met Ava in September and they have formed a lovely friendship.

What's really neat too is that Ava has a younger brother, Zane. He is Jack's age and they too have become great friends. Jack runs around the house talking about Zane, his "buddy" and Zane does the same thing at home.

It's really nice to see Jack have a friend he can play with too. Ava and Zane's parents have become good friends to Eric and I as well. Their names are Ron and Sue. Sue and I are email buddies, and love chatting about everything! Ron is a chiropractor and G-Ma and Papa Toe are his patients. Very neat!

Anyway, yesterday was Friday, the last day of vacation week, we meet our new friends at the Zoo....boy, that was a HUGE mistake! It was insane. The line to get into the parking lot was backed up to the main street, when I finally got into the parking lot there were no spots available so you literally would have to find an on street parking space and the closest one was like a mile away, literally! Needless to say, we aborted that visit! Way too overwhelming for Susie and I, never mind the children!

So then we headed to the playground at the park...that lasted about 10 minutes. It's a nice, big playground with only one entrance in, which is good, but the structures are so large, you sometimes can't see your children...that freaked me out, especially when I couldn't find Jack for over minute! Again, needless to say, we aborted that mission too! At least the kids didn't seem to be upset...they just went with the flow!

Next, we went over to the hilly area of the park so they could get out some energy running up and down the hill, rolling and playing games. This gave Susie and I some time to make another plan (what's this??? Plan D?) Our decision: get out of Roger Williams Park! But before we headed anywhere we took some pictures of the children playing together.

Jack and Zane digging for treasures, aka rocks!

Here they are playing Ring around the Rosie

"...and we all fall down!"

We then made our way to Hoxsie School playground (near G-ma's and Papa Toe's). It was fun, but very dry and hot. It was 82 degrees! After about 30 minutes of playing we decided to get something for lunch. Instead of cramming into a booth at a restaurant we made a quick decision to order pizza and retreat back to my in-laws house. They offered and we jumped at the chance! It was very close by and it gave the kids time to relax, play and more importantly, time for Susie and I to chat. It was nice. Pizza came, everyone ate and my in-laws came home to meet our new friends. It was a very nice day, despite the running around. Here are some pictures of our very busy, but fun day with the Tyskowski's!