This is the question I asked all weekend. This past week the weather was amazing, in fact, I’m dared to say it was really hot, like turn the A/C back on hot. All week I was checking my trusty Weather Channel App on my iPhone hoping it would change its mind about the cold front. It’s hard to believe when its 90 degrees that the following day it was going to be in the 60’s. That’s just not a nice thing of Mother Nature. I was really excited that the water in the pool was warming up all week, and the thought of going into the pool one more time this season sounded wonderful. But it was not meant to be, and as I found out nothing worked out just as I thought it would. But I think it worked out for the better in the end.
One of the things we planned on doing this weekend was to go to the New York State Festival of Balloons in Dansville, NY. Saturday, we got in the car and drove all the way down there. We knew the outlook wasn’t looking good, when we didn’t see any hot air balloons as we were getting close to Dansville. When we arrived we asked the nice lady at the gate if the balloons were going to be blown up. She said she couldn’t guarantee that it would. We were so bummed hearing that. The reason we decided to go was to show Dagny the hot air balloons, she was so excited the whole drive down. Parent lesson #1, don’t tell your child you’re going to see something, you’re not 100% sure if you can deliver.
So, what to do? When we were driving down to Dansville, we passed by Letchworth State Park. As we were driving back to Rochester, Craig suggested we go to Letchworth. It’s been a long time since we have been and Dagny has never. I don’t know how we forgot how beautiful a place it is. As we were driving through the park, Craig mentioned that it looks like the Grand Canyon. The funny thing is as I was grabbing the link for the park, the first thing it mentions is that it’s renowned as the “Grand Canyon of the East”. Because the weather was on the cooler side it wasn’t super crowded, which we all know we love.
Grand Canyon of the East
Dagny had a wonderful time. Once we got to the park, we told her we are going to see a waterfall. Thank goodness she was excited about that enough to get over not seeing the balloons.
Here are my two loves.
Here are my two silly monkeys.
Dagny enjoying the waterfall.
Mommy & Dagny playing
Taking a break.
Sunday, we stayed at home. Only thing we did was take a walk around the neighborhood, which is always unpredictable. As we started our walk, about four houses down from us a woman rushed out of her house with her husband and children following. They introduced themselves to us. The lady used to work with the previous owner of or house, and has heard about us and wanted to meet us. How absolutely sweet of them. We have one addition thing in common, they adopted their daughter too. This is yet another reason why I love our new neighborhood, you just don’t know what you’re going to experience going for a walk.
Today, we decided to go for a walk through Tinker Nature Park. We really enjoy going there, it’s such a nice walk through the woods. In the past when we walked the path, we never once ran into anyone, this time we ran into quite a few. Toward the end there is a playground that we usually stop and let Dagny play. I couldn’t believe how many kids there were. I realized today that I don’t really like some kids. There were a group of kids ranging in ages 3 to 8. The eight year old was your typical bully. He was pushing the kids, which the three year old learned and pushed Dagny. I didn’t witness this, Craig told me this later, which is a good thing because I don’t think I would have been so understanding. What drives me crazy is that the boy’s parents were there while he was being a bully, and the only thing they said was “Boy will be boys.” Really? Nice parenting skills. Ugh. I hate that we will continue to run across parents like these through Dagny’s adolescents. I get that is all a part of growing up, but I hate it. Dagny is still young enough not to fully grasp any of what went down, but it breaks my heart to think someday soon she will and she will slowly lose the innocence that is a part of her at this young age.
So even though all weekend it looked like it was going to rain any minute, it never did while we were out and about. And even though our weekend was not as what we thought it would be, it all worked out for the best.
Barbara