We dragged them out of the house so they didn't just bicker all day, and basically they just took their show on the road. Annoying each other, poking at each other, complaining if we wanted to do something other than what they wanted to do (play at the park, eat ice cream, get soaked in the fountain and watch skateboarders). What I wouldn't give for a good babysitter right about now....
I have to admit the fountain was kind of cool. It was a wall of water, but as you walked toward it, a section would stop and you could actually walk into the fountain and not get wet (in theory. Unless you are a boy, in which case the whole point is to get wet, and so you have to walk fast enough that the fountain doesn't react quickly enough to shut down completely, and not so quickly that you parents yell at you for getting wet on purpose.) Things were going badly.
Where Eastern European hair color inspiration comes from.
Then, while at the park, we did have a little cross cultural experience which distracted all of us from our respective "itchiness" We found this cool sculpture (for lack of a better word). I think it's the urban equivalent of carving your name in a tree, a monument to lovers. We spent a lot of time reading the names and the initials and dates. It was really helpful- changed the tone of the afternoon and then afterward I didn't even mind watching the skateboarders and the trick riders quite so much.
Seeing this really did change my mood a little- the hopefulness of it wore off on me a bit too. Maybe this will be okay...
