We got up early. Early. Much much much too early. By 5 am we let the girls go down to play with Ninoo & Papa. And C39 & I went back to bed.
Eventually we got out of the house, and drove to Tickfaw State Park. C4 had the idea that she didn't want to go. Crying ensued, on and off. We were able to distract her, mostly. Then Q2 fell asleep halfway there, as C4 noted "She conked out!" Yes, she had.
We got there, C4 actually was on the edge of sleep, she was 75% asleep. So we drove in and turned around, but at some point she fell over in her seat and woke herself up. She was happy to be going, not wanting to go to Tickfaw State Park, she wanted to go to Clarke Park (in town). She continued to say she'd nap in the car, but we turned around and did go in for real. C4 continued to make a fuss, but we took her in anyway, and managed to get her to stop crying about it by telling her that sometimes we do things for her, and sometimes she does things for us. And she was going to do this for us. Then we'd all go to Clarke Park for her. That actually worked.
She wasn't keen on going in, but she did. I told her I'd cary her the whole way, but after about 2 minutes she got down to check things out. She spent huge amount of time on a matching video game, and was excited to see turtles, because Q2 (who was still sleeping in the car, inccidentally) likes turtles. She loved the tornado maker, but did not like the dried and preserved alligators.
Finally, I went back outside and woke up Q2 (and Ninoo), and we went for a walk on the boardwalks. Well, one of the boardwalks that wasn't ruined by Gustav earlier this year. C4 was not thrilled about walking the boardwalk, but once we got to the end and started throwing sticks, they both came around.
Here we are throwing sticks:
And then. Finally for C4, we went to Clarke Park. Where we spent an hour? 90 minutes? I don't know, but they enjoyed every second of it.
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