Today we went to some new parks that we haven’t seen yet. This is Chessman park. Here is Joel doing the ‘flying trapeze’ on the swings. Here is Hannah swinging. (video corrupt, I’ll have to try and re-load later.)
Here is a squirrel.

Here is me!

The trees are almost done for the season; this oak is hanging onto some nice yellow leaves.

Here is Bethany playing with the sand digger.

Not too great in the playground department, but, a nice open field to fly a kite.

Here’s Grace holding the kite for Joel.

When it was Hannah’s turn Joel said run and she never looked back.

We were yelling, ‘stop!’, but she just kept running with that kite. It didn’t have a very long string so once it got up you had to keep backing up.



After chasing the kite for a while we got in the car and headed to the Hungarian freedom park. It’s mostly this fountain and a grassy space.

We passed by the Sunken gardens park, which I thought might have a garden, but it was just a playground and a basketball court. I think once upon a time it was a garden. Then we headed down Colfax and met an interesting fellow at the gas station. He asked for some money to buy groceries with (because that would go farther than a Wendy’s hamburger.) We talked about the Rockies, his surgery and his new job. I gave him some money because, well, this time I had money (usually I don’t.) But here’s the weird part- as we drove off he was in the middle of the street and we waved to him, he waved back and then as we passed him, he was gone! He couldn’t have turned left because there was a lot of traffic headed his way. He didn’t turn right because we would have seen him. I think he was an angel sent to see if I would give someone food (or money for food.) The kids think so too, Joel was looking out the back window like, “Where did he go?” Bethany said he didn’t look much like an angel (and they are supposed to look like what?) Sometimes things aren’t what they seem. It started a great discussion on how we should treat people and how God wants us to help others.

Anyway, next we went by the $1 store and then to Wal-mart. We got back home just in time for the first pitch of the Rockies/Red Sox game. Now to all those fans, I hope you watched the whole game. Yes, we lost, but I watched the whole game. I think that if they don’t put Beckett in tomorrow we can win and tie it up. Remember though the Red Sox came back to get into the world series, so it’s not a stretch to say that we could win even if it goes up to 3-0. Tomorrow we’ll be watching the game from Skyline park just off the mall. We can’t get tickets, but we can get pretty close to Coors field to watch all of the Series games! Wanna join us?

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game 1 goes to the Red Sox