ScrumpyDaddy

It’s early March, and the Spring weather has hit!  To celebrate and enjoy some of this beautiful weather, after a long Saturday full of busywork, we decided to have a picnic at South Park.  We parked in the lot on Hundred Acre Drive, just after you turn onto it from Corrigan Dr.

Parking lot on Hundred Acre Dr. (from top of hill)

We climbed up the gargantuan hill to the pavilion at near the top, and had our picnic dinner.

There is a newer pavilion there, or at least one that has been rebuilt.  Abby enjoyed eating outside at the picnic table, but food didn’t hold her interest for long, since she had a great new purple playground ball to make us chase down that big hill!

Mmmm, Cheese Stick!

Abby and her purple ball

There is a nice new playground right next to the pavilion, as well, and after some chasing of the new ball, we all decided to do some swinging and sliding.

Mommy helping Abby swing

Sitting with Daddy at the bottom of the stairs to the slide

And, after all that, we did some good old chasing, with Abby saying, “Daddy, I get you!” or occasionally, “You get me?”

"I got you!"

And, we hold onto our ball:

And, we hold onto our ball

Well, sometimes, anyway!

You can see the rest of the day’s pictures posted in the South Park Picnic album of the Pryke Photos website.

After our picnic, we decided to go get some ice cream, so we headed to Bruster”s ice cream shop in HillCrest Shopping Center…but, much to our surprise, they were closed!  For good! So, we headed to Eat ‘N’ Park for some dessert (mmm, Grilled Stickies!), but the wait was waaaaay too long for our tastes (and Abby’s.)  Since it was so close and easy and fast, we decided to just go to McDonald’s for a few quick soft-serve sundaes and a cone for Abby.  Yum!  (In hindsight, the cone was unnecessary; we had too much ice cream, and Abby wanted to eat with a spoon like us, anyway.)

Despite the dessert troubles, it was a wonderful way to end a great day!