AFter spending the summer in Los Angeles, I thought that I should take the kids to see a movie. Ideally, I wanted to take them to an interesting movie palace in Los Angeles, but since I didn't, I did the n
ext best thing: take them to a cheap-o movie theater here in Binghamton. Before the movie, we stopped at a park on Oak Hill Road and rode one of the Binghamton Carousels--one that we hadn't ridden before. The park had two decent playgrounds that are probably worth going back to next time we are in the neighborhood. The movie theater was just down the street. We saw the Disney movie, "Up". which was the most appropriate of the 3 kids and 2 adult movies playing at this theater. When we got to the theater a young couple (I estimate college age) was sitting in the center of the first row. Of course the kids decide to noisily plop right down in the three seats next to this couple (fortunately they were more amused than annoyed).
Tuesday, September 1 we went to Alpaca Fantasy World (an Alpaca farm) in Maine, NY. The kids loved seeing the Alpacas up close the and the stuff they make with Alpaca fur was pretty neat! After the farm, we stopped at a playground at the nearby elementary school and had ice cream across the street. The kids size cones were huge and very reasonably priced.
On Thursday we went wading in the creek by African Road Park, and Friday I took the kids for one last fling on the Carousel and the pool. Our first stop on Friday was West Endicott Park so that the kids could play in the pool and I could sit and watch, but Joshua wan
ted a deeper place to swim. So, after the Carousel ride, I thought that we could go to the Vestal Pool. Unfortunately, the it wasn't open that week, so we rushed over to the Highland Park pool. The big pool was a bit cold for Benjamin and Laura preferred the wading pool, but Joshua enjoyed the big pool a little even though he was lonely because the pool was empty.
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