One Saturday afternoon we headed down to the river again for the Duck Race. We really just made it in time to walk through what vendors they had, eat a corn dog, let Sophie jump on some inflatables, and watch the ducks drop. Sophie did get to "build" a box at the Home Depot station, but mostly Daniel and I did it for the free apron. Sophie liked watching them dump the 15,000 or so rubber ducks into the river. After that we headed home.
Between family visiting and Daniel's work party, we've been to the zoo a lot lately. Daniel's summer work party was held at Tautphaus Park and we were able to go to the zoo and ride some rides at Funland for free. Sophie loves the zoo and talks about going there almost daily, so it's always fun with her. She particularly likes the monkeys and always asks to go see the zebras. Most times if the animal is sleeping or not moving she yells, "Wake up!" And sometimes she asks if she can hold the animals which would probably never be okay.
After the zoo we walked over to Funland. It's an ancient mini amusement park with five or six rides. It hasn't changed since I was a kid. The first ride we put Sophie on was the airplane/swings. She loved it for about a minute and then had a look of concern and terror and eventually cried until it stopped. Once she got off she declared, "Yay! I did it!" like she had a wonderful time. Then we let her ride the little kid train which is the slowest moving ride on the planet. She ended up riding that about five times. Then Daniel took her on the merry-go-round on which she also cried. So Sophie doesn't always have that adventurous spirit when it comes to rides.
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