Membership Has Its Privileges

We finally got our annual passes to the big park outside our front door.  Eli is little enough that he's free so didn't need a pass.  Lucky him as these passes didn't really capture the rest of us at our best...

Yes, it's sideways.  Deal with it. 

We also finally got our annual membership to the Science and Technology Museum on the other side of the park (about a 15-20 minute walk).  Family passes here are just for mom, dad and one child (since families here are limited to one child), so we had to get a separate student pass for Naomi.  Eli is free but wasn't happy about not being included in the picture.  We tried to have him join us, but that apparently was against the rules.

Yes, deal with it again.  Not sure why it won't turn sideways.

So now we can go thru the park entrance right by our building and not have to walk 1/2 a mile down to the ticket booth.  This also means we can go anytime we want for as little time as we want AND can ride all the rides whenever we want.  Yes, there are rides.  They're awesome.  The flimsy or non-existent seat belts on the rides, not so awesome.  But I put aside my neuroses, shut my eyes and let them have fun.

That's Naomi and Townes up there.  Unbuckled.

Then we walked peacefully home.

Oops.

Yesterday we went back to the farm for some more nature school.  We picked tomatoes and lettuce and cucumbers and made salad.  Then we picked carrots and made "carrot kids" out of them. 

Very impressive Matthew.

It's a holiday today and tomorrow (May Day).  We'll take advantage of this time together before Matthew heads off to India later in the week.