A Little Adventure for Little Adventurers

Well here I write again! It is a typical day here, with the standard 86 degree weather and 75% humidity. We have done a lot these last few weeks and I have been too busy (or to plumb tuckered out to blog).

So I’ll start with the adventure the kids and I went on a few weeks ago! We were all restless and dying to get out of the house. So we decided to go check out a playground on the other side of the island. I have heard it’s “okay” and that they were supposed to be redoing it. And... yeah, It was “okay.” But the kids loved it!

The metal is all rusty, the sand below the slides is so worn down the slides are quite a ways off the ground, and it’s rather falling apart. But it was still something to climb on! Even Sadie had fun! Plus there were lots of sea shells in the sand to be admired and collected.

The slides, I imagine, have been worn down so much by the salty sea breeze that they don’t even slide anymore! If I could include a video you would see the kids really having to push themselves to go down... we joke that those slides are the ones meant for climbing up.

That wasn’t even the best part though! I spotted a stair case that caught my interest. So we followed it up. 

(#1 the airport, and cliff after the runway, #2 the hill with a trail leading to Tide Pools, #3 Cove bay, full of seaweed, #4 the Staircase we spotted)

After exploring the area we found a path. A fun little pint size hike that took us to the edge of the hill to a great view of the water. It also leads down to tidepools! Though I didn’t take the kids on that adventure that day. We did find an interesting old structure that looks like it was an oven…maybe?

(Kids spotted some little white butterflies)

What I loved about this day was being present with the kids. Before we left we were all so grumpy and cranky and irritated. But then we got some fresh air and it was so nice watching the kids light up as they explored rocks, plants, butterflies, and all that was around them.