Our May Day Park day was David’s “pet” event. My husband loves tree time. Especially when the trees are redwoods. In fact we just had our second annual May Day Park Day and it was great.
We had to get to the park by 10a to hold our space even though we paid for it. This was hard, especially because we were all soooo completely exhausted. I remember literally dragging myself up the slight incline to the table site, I was that tired. I picked up Alicia, then somehow Alexa and Scott were there too, I can’t even remember how we got them. We got there on time, but I had to get May Pole ribbons and Alicia needed sustenance so we left Alexa and Scott in charge of holding the space. They were there alone in the woods for a while. They didn’t have too much fun during that time. I’m guessing that they probably would have preferred to be snuggled up in their beds. They each deserve kudos for making the sacrifice because once people began to arrive, everybody was really grateful to have some peaceful time outside to close out the week. We danced the may pole, we had some silly fun led by Harris and Ren, we had a talent show. We ate tasty food (lots of desserts) and generally just decompressed from a long week of reveling.
I hope that in future years we’ll be able to rally volunteers to lead even more organized activities for our May Day Park days since the template for the event is the Albert Kahn company picnics that we used to attend when I was a kid. I’m learning that these sorts of events are a midwestern phenomenon because I’m not the only one who has fond memories of field activities in a park with a bunch of families whose parental units were my dad’s co-workers. Hopefully as our friends’ kids get older and as our families grow we’ll have a critical mass of people who realize what fun we can have with an afternoon of parent-led activities and we’ll keep yet another fun tradition alive. I envision this as an annual opportunity for our friends and family to gather from afar. These early days of May seem to deliver spectacular weather and I think that it’s fun to plan a visit to the bay around at least one big activity. I think that right now most of the people that we know with kids are still slightly sleep deprived between hustling to get themselves comfortably set up financially and lifestyle-wise, and having young children who don’t always sleep through the night. I figure that eventually we’ll be in a different stage where our kids will be really into games and we as parents will be happy to give all of ourselves a day of fun. If my idea is correct then the last event of our wedding celebration was indeed our point of departure for a long life of fun times with our friends and family. I cannot think of a better way to conclude our eight delightful days.
Leave a Reply