Day 263 Jul.7 2011

Luckily our last day in town and my brother has the day off of work.  Mom made us all breakfast and then we headed to a park in the middle of Lansing-Hawk Island.  Very cool park.  I have no idea if the lake is man-made or not.  But there are two small islands, a large swimming area, an incredibly large grassy area for laying out and running around, an enormous playground, and a pretty neat splash pad.  Caitlin didn’t want anything to do with the playground when she saw the lake/pond.  She kept giving me her sign for water, over and over.  Big surprise.  As cool and pretty as this area was, it’s kind of sad that in order for someone to want to be outside it has to be “done nice”.  Someone has to plant wildflowers, and keep the grass cut, and sidewalks swept, and paint the wood a nice deep brown to make it look like wood…The outdoors alone should be enough to keep us happy.  I guess that is the trade-off we have made for these highly evolved complicated brains…As nice as it is to have the things we have and do the things we do, sometimes I wish everything didn’t have to be so complicated and we could just appreciate things in their simplest form :)