Wet Weekend plan B

The past few weekends have been busy with extra commitments and activities, so jay and I decided that we needed to take advantage of a free Saturday this weekend. We told the kids that we would go somewhere special for a fun activity. We planned to go to furman to ride bikes and have a picnic in the beautiful May sunshine.

Instead, we ended up with Plan B. We were an hour later leaving the house than planned. It was 52 degrees and windy and wet and drizzling rain. We still got all the kids and the double stroller and three bikes and helmets and the soccer ball and a picnic in the car to go anyway. We drove all the way to furman ( which was a looooong 20 min drive with children arguing over who could see which baby and make faces at them in the car). We pulled up to the front gate at furman to discover that it's graduation day and the campus is not open to the public that day. Just the thought of graduating from furman again literally made me start to tear up. Man I loved that place.

So on to plan B. We went to a little park at the base of Paris mountain, where of course someone had rented out the picnic shelter to host a baby shower. We told the kids to behave and make the people who are expecting a baby excited about how well five kids can behave. We rode bikes, played on the playground, played soccer, ate lunch, and froze! It was very chilly but we had a good day.

We managed to get all the kids and bikes back into the mini and drove up the steep road on Paris mountain so that they would be impressed that we used to run up it when we were at furman. They weren't impressed and all fell asleep in the car, after a few more arguments about who could look at the babies.

But we were all together and had fun and made some memories, so that counts as a good day. But seriously , where is the warm spring weather???