Yet another reason I love our neighborhood

The first weekend after Labor Day our neighborhood hosted a “movie in the park”. The weather was perfect—we had a lovely time. 

 When The Girl was only a few months old, Grandude bought her a giant wagon, which we actually used as a bassinet for awhile in the townhouse.  We didn't use it much while we lived in the townhouse, occasionally to move firewood, or we took it to the zoo, but usually, we just took a stroller.  Since we moved to this house it has had a lot of use--walking to the neighborhood CSA veggie pick up, moving various things around the yard, bringing back pumpkins from the neighborhood pumpkin fest, and this time toting a bunch of stuff to movie night in the park!


 Let's see--what provisions do we have--bug spray (didn't need it), bag of homemade popcorn with butter, flashlight, chairs, blanket, cooler with drinks...

 And there it is, in the field at the tiny park that is usually just a big area of grass--a 40 foot high movie screen!

 It wasn't as far as it looks--actually only about 4 blocks from our house!











Apparently the area has a name now.

 The movie was supposed to start about 7:00, we went down about 6:30, and it was super hot.  These folks in front of us were smart--they brought one of those sports umbrella things, like you'd take to an all-day soccer meet.

 See what a cute little area we set up? :)

When the boy was about 2, he stuck popcorn up his nose while at my parents' house in rural South Dakota.  My mom's reaction to this picture was "you let him have popcorn?!!!".  Yeah, we do let him sometimes...but only if he promises not to put it up his nose.

 The kids had a great time running around...

 And resting....

 I love that the wagon has cup holders...ours is holding bug spray and a flashlight, of course..

 The neighborhood association was also passing out popcorn and bottled water--more homemade popcorn for me!

 Ok, things are getting silly...time to start the movie!

There it is! Yay!

 It was a little chilly, so the kids warmed up inside the blanket.

A very nice evening!