Spontaneous.

Ryan and I went to the dry cleaners today. I don't even know who I am anymore. Me? The dry cleaners? When did I become OLD? Anyway, not the point. So we went to the dry cleaners and were headed to the grocery store when I got the urge to do something different. I pulled out the trusty old GPS and told it to show me the nearest "Parks/Gardens". (I know, my GPS rocks. But that's a different post for a different day.) A whole list of parks came up on my screen and I just randomly picked one. Our new destination: Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs.

Turns out, this park is just a couple minutes from my house. Like, I could walk there. Who knew?! The admission was $6 but it was worth it. Ryan has been in a funk*. A crazy, terrible, whiny, crying funk. We could both use an afternoon out of the house. A change of scenery and a little adventure is just what we needed today.

If it were up to Ryan, we would have never made it past the parking lot. He thought it was the coolest thing ever. I was not about to let the $6 admission go to waste, so I eventually forced him into the actual park.

There were lots of peacocks just running loose. Some people had bread and were trying to feed them. Do peacocks even eat bread? I guess these ones do. Next time we come we will bring bread.

Toward the back of the property there were little shacks with animals in them. Animal shacks, if you will. These animal shacks housed pigs and sheep and goats. Only one goat came out to greet Ryan and I. The others were way too smart and stayed in the shade. It looks like summer will never end here in Vegas and it was over 90 degrees again today. In the sun, that is still really hot!

On a side note, seems like pretty fancy fences for a dumpy old animal shack, dontcha think?

There were chickens in some chicken coops. Luckly, Ryan was less than interested. I don't know why, but of all the barnyard animals, I think I dislike chickens the most. They are right after geese and right before turkeys on my "Farm Animals I Dislike" list. Interestingly enough, that list could double as my "Top Favorite Meats to Eat" (minus the geese of course). Ryan had one hand in his mouth pretty much the whole time we were there. Not really what a mother likes to see at a dirty, germy farm; but I wasn't about to unleash funky* Ryan over a little bit of dirt and most likely farm animal waste in his mouth. (That sounded a lot more reasonable in my head...)


The farm animals weren't all that interesting, but a pile of dirt inside a 6-foot chain link fence? Now, THAT is entertainment! We spent a lot of our time looking at this pile of dirt and a few tractors behind this fence. I don't know why I feel bored as a mother sometimes. Seriously, a pile of dirt. Fascinating.


After about an hour, a water break, and one last survey of the parking lot (it was still cool) we were ready to head back home.


Once we got home, Ryan- the child who has refused to take a second nap for 5 days straight- went down for a nice, long two hour nap.

I would gladly pay $6 for that any day. :)

Also, we have no groceries for dinner tonight.