Parks Academe: June 2009

Father's Day - Part 2

By Leslie Parks - Tuesday, June 30, 2009

On they way home from our aborted bike ride, we passed Lake Sammish and decided to check out the boat launch. The lake is lovely but the take out is brutal. We don't have a 4x4 so it makes pulling our boat out a major operation with as many adult in the back of the truck as possible. We are a little short of adults in our family so we wait until other people arrive. Since we haven't been here for a couple years due to that reason we decided to check it out. The day in Bellingham was beautiful not at all like in Woodinville. We pull into the lot, look around and the next thing I know John is diving into the water. We bribed the kids to go into the water too.

Apres nous avons decider de retourner a la maison en le jour de pere, nous visitons une lac pres de nous. C'est vraiment joli et nous aimons la lac mais c'est trops difficile avec le bateau. C'est facile de metre le bateau dans l'eau mais quand nous voulons prendre le bateau nous n'avons pas assez de force avec le camion de prendre le bateau. Nous pensons que peut etre c'est different apres quelques annee alors nous avons aller de voir. Mais non, c'est le meme. Nous voyons l'eau et John decede de plunger dans l'eau. C'est plus difficile pour les enfants d'aller dedans.

Job found a log that he could float on. Apparently that was better than getting all wet.

Job trouve un bois qu'il utilize comme un bateau. C'est meiux que plunger dans l'eau.

Lona wanted to try it out so bad. Lona veut esseyer le bateau aussi.

John was able to talk Job into swimming with him. finalement, John et Job nager ensemble dans la lac.

It was harder to get Lona into the water. Il faut que Lona fait un visage quand elle nage.

This was her reaction to the water.

Since when did Isaac become a farmer? What is with the grass? Qu'est que Isaac fait? Il n'est pas un fermier.

My favorite photo of the day. The color is off but I love the interaction of everyone.

That is how we ended father's day. An impromptu swim on the way home. I love spontaneity.

C;est mon photo favorite de tous la jour. Je n'aime pas le colour mais j'aime tous la familee ensemble.

C'est domment la jour de pere fini, avec un plunger dans une lac. C'est parfait.

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Father's Day - Part 1

By Leslie Parks - Tuesday, June 23, 2009

On Sunday, we drove to Woodinville to go on a bike ride. The trail is Lake Sammamish Trail. We started at Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville. We often stop at this park when Isaac sees his doctor. I've always wanted to bike the trail that runs through it. As we started there came a large group of bikers with numbers on their shirts. Apparently there was a road bike race for cancer. It went from Seattle to Vancouver, BC. So in order to keep out of the way we went south instead of west. We periodically stopped to check Isaac's blood sugar (very important with any physical activity) and to munch on food. The little river that we followed had kyakers and canoers on it. They were part of the Mountains to Sound race. Amazing. We had only gone about 3 miles when we needed to stop. While resting and eating, we noticed at a soccer park they were shooting off rockets so we headed over there. We saw a couple of rockets set off and then came the rain. We hurried under a the roof next to the concession stand. We were joined by a father and his kids who were shooting off rockets and also a biker from Vancouver who was trying to bike 100 km that day. His goal was to put on 1000 km during the summer. Every one was very interesting. We learned about rockets, biking, and Google. I think that we were under there for 45 minutes. We left while it was sprinkling. By the time we got back to the car, the sun had come out and it was beautiful. I wanted to go on but the kids were adamant. NO! We had only gone about 6 miles. Back home we went.

Pour le jour de pere, nous avons alles au Woodinville pour faire un tour de bicyclette. Il y a un cours la entra Seattle et Vancouver BC. Nous avons decide aller sud parce que les gens vont ouest. Nous avons commence a Wilmot Gateway Park. Il faut que nous arretons de temps en temps pour Isaac de regarde son sucre du sange. Nous avons vu qu'il y de gens qui faire de la fussee. Alors nous prenons notre bicyclette et voyons les fussees. Soudain, il commence de la pluie et aussi de la grele. Nous avons reste sous un cover pendent 45 minutes. Il y a quelques autre la aussi, un homme avec son trois enfants et un homme avec une bicyclette. Quand la pluie etais presque finir, nous avons decide de retourner a la voiture. A la fin, il fait beau et je voudrais aller encore mais les enfant dit NO!