Playgrounds and more playgrounds

I picked today to make a final visit to Griffith Park to ride their bikes in the Shane's Inspiration playground before I post them (the bikes, that is) for sale on craigslist. Then we went to the Americana at Brand Mall for a children's concert and to ride on the trolly. The children's folk music by Melissa Green turned out to be better than many of the other kids' shows that we have seen. Fortunately, the trolley started up soon after the show ended and we got to take a ride on it. I think the mall starts the trolley on Tuesdays (kids day) a few hours earlier than on other days. The first few rides around the mall on the trolley were packed full of kids there for the show--obviously the mall is catering to the interests of the kids. Finally, we stopped at Auntie Anne's to use the free pretzel coupon from the summer reading club.

In the afternoon we went to Cerritos Park in Glendale because the kids seem to prefer that water play area to the one in Pasadena, but it was a bit too cool for them to spend much time in the water. They enjoyed the dry spaceship playground anyway.

Today's fun car conversations centered around marriage and building a dinosaur hall. First Joshua asked why am I the only one in my family who is married, besides Grandma and Grandpa. I explained that Aunt Robin is also married. Then Benjamin asked about Aunt Robin's house, because "married people are rich". I told Benjamin that he can go in person to check out Aunt Robin's house.

The other conversation started when Laura said that she wanted to make a dinosaur hall (Benjamin made a dinosaur hall in his dinosaur camp) with doors, dinosaurs and drinks for the dinosaurs. Benjamin started giving her instructions to make a dinosaur hall like he did in camp.