We met for lunch first at Deerpark Restaurant, which is a wonderful new find. It is a white linen table cloth kind of restaurant with an exquisite buffet, but children 9 and younger eat free: a real winner for us Catholic families with big broods!
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| Two Catholic families worth of children |
Next we were off to tour the gardens experiencing their big spring bloom. Such exquisite tulips!
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| "This is my favorite shirt." -Joseph (3) |
What do two nine-year-old boys do as soon as we arrive at the breathtakingly beautiful, manicured gardens? Find a wide-open grassy spot to wrestle, of course!
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| Wrestling boys |
Chris took all the children for a bit so I could tour the gardening shop all by myself--a treat!
Then the troops drove over to romp at the new playground and visit the animals.
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| Watching goats |
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| Petting a rooster |
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| Petting a mama goat |
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| Riding the tractor |
We really had a wonderful day, and Chris and I choose to mentally block out the two-hour-turned-four-hour drive home in which the sibling fighting was mean-spirited and the baby screamed for much of the time, no matter how I comforted him, until I finally wrapped my head in a blanket to deafen the sound and curled up in a ball to wait it out.
But except for that: a wonderful day!!!
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