10-11-06 More Park Pics

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Some Japanese children on the playground at the park. Nathan and Arlene thought this was the coolest swing (of sorts), they kept telling me about it. I didn't know what to expect. When I saw it, I said, they have one of these at the park in West Virginia! What a small world!
















I know Nathan won't like this picture, but if you look beyond him you'll see a yellow cage of sorts coming down between the trees. If you can picture the rollers that packages are sent down on an assembly line, you'll pretty much have a clear understanding of what that is. Instead of a package rolling down.....YOU roll down!! :D :) :) It's great. It makes you feel like you're 10 again! Now they don't have that in W.V. ;) I think there's actually a kid finishing up his turn on it. It looks like he's at the end of it. The cage overhead is reassuring. Sometimes packages fall off the assembly line....and that would NOT be cool. I have video of each of us going down, and Nathan took the camera down with his once so you could get a hands on view of what you see going down. It's pretty funny.
















Here's Nathan and Arlene ready to race across! Who won.....ummmm, can't remember. If it was like Air Hockey though, it was probably Arlene! ;) Nathan and I raced too, that's on video though. The first time, I chickened out and dropped the rope. The 2nd time across I made it all the way! :)





















Arlene made a little friend at the park. A dragonfly flew right up on her shoulder! :) I've never seen so many dragonflies as I did in Japan. It was really neat!