The girls turned 13 today! Yesterday, Olivia wanted to get big "1" and "3" ballons and do a photo shoot at a nearby park with Mount Si in the background. Then today she wanted to meet her friend at the mall and hang out with her for awhile before we met Paul, Kayley and Paul's parents for dinner as the Cheesecake Factory. Poor Kayley didn't really do anything, other than dinner with all of us. She was trying to hang out with one friend but she lives really far away. I'm not sure why she didn't try to do something with one of her other friends that live closer, but maybe she can next weekend.
Last summer a friend of mine introduced me to this cool park on Mercer Island. When we went, we only played at the swimming beach and never explored the rest of the park or played on the playground. So yesterday, we finally went back with a picnic lunch and checked out some more of the park (there's still another section we didn't get to, so maybe next time). The playground was really cool with all sorts of nooks and cranies, and old-fashioned metal slides and ladders. They girls loved it. View from our picnic spot A pyramid with slides on the other side Lake Washington beyond Chair swings--never seen these before I-90 bridge over Lake Washington Trail along the lake leading to the swimming beach Should have brought swimsuits. They were SO sandy and wet coming home.
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