It started with bagels, of course, like all things start for Adam and the girls on Saturday. It was enjoyable to sit back and watch them, they're pros at it now, each of them ordering for themselves with confidence. This is a new side to bagel day I hadn't seen before. They are growing up.
After dropping Bella off for her violin rehearsal at the Conference Center we decided to stay downtown until Bella was done and after I realized Megan's game wasn't until 1pm it seemed like the perfect plan. We took Tess and Megan to Memory park to walk around, but what I didn't realize is how busy it would be on a Saturday morning. There was family after family and engagement couples running around every where getting their photos taken. In fact there were even people waiting in line for certain spot. It was craziness, but fun to see so many cameras milling around the park.
I enjoyed getting another round of fallness...hope it stays for a little while longer.
Afterward we still had about 40 minutes so we decided to take the girls to one of our old haunts when we were downtown dwellers...Sam Weller's bookstore. It's a quaint little store with a great selection of new, used, and rares books. It smells like what I imagine the forgotten books from the book The Shadow Of The Wind smelt like. Delightful. I was happy to hear both Megan and Tess complaining when it was time to leave.
This part of the day seemed brief, but it's exactly what we needed to make an okay Saturday into a great one. I need to remember it doesn't take much...and to think, I almost didn't go.
xoxo,
amy
3 comments:
The photo of Tess reminds me so much of you...the red shoes, the look on her face, the way she is shifting her weight onto her right foot...totally you.
Looks like a fun day. I love Memory Grove. I need to get down there this week!
I miss that bookstore. There is nothing like the smell of books.
one of my most favorite childhood memories is going with my dad once a month to a pipe and cigar store in downtown portland, it was the only place that sold his specialty jewelry making magazine, he would buy me a pack of blackjack gum and then we would go to Powell's bookstore and I would get to sit in the kids section and read for the afternoon. You are making wonderful memories for your girls and they will cherish and appreciate it always.
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