-Wednesday July 4th Afternoon-
After a brief argument with the car GPS we finally made it through Everett to Snohomish and the home of Scott, Beth, James, Madilyn & Susan. We had several hours to kill before we headed off to Beth’s parents Annual 4th of July shindig, so we needed to occupy some rambunctious nieces and a nephew. Well one niece, the other was happy & contented inside her pouch. Actually not that niece either as she is just happy to be near people being happy. The nephew wanted to go looking for treasures, AKA geocaching, so I looked up some easy finds along the Centennial Trail which starts in downtown.
I loaded caches into the GPSr while they loaded snacks, scooters, trikes and baby support supplies into the family SUV. Then we all piled in for the short trip to the trail. Not too long after we got walking we discovered a cache near the river and with that goal checked off everyone was pretty content to just walk, talk, scoot and pedal for about a mile or so until we found a playground. This captured everyone’s attention. “Oooh, can we play?” “Can we huh?” Can we?” “Watch this!” “Push me.” “Swing me!” “Spin me?” After about an hour the adults were worn slap out from watching the two kids play, so we headed back to the car. There was one small item left on everyone’s wish list before returning home…
Ice cream.
And a stop at the Snohomish Scoop & Sweet Shop fixed that right up.