This past Saturday, Ray was working in Stuart about an hour and a half away from here. He had spent the night there on Friday to save the extra 3 hrs of drive time. Originally, the kids and I had planned to come up after Grace got out of school on Friday, go swimming for a bit, maybe get a bite to eat and sleep over, have breakfast in the morning and then head home. This way Ray could spend some time with the kids, and for the kids, it would seem like a mini-vacation. Well, things changed and Ray had to end up working later that night than he had hoped. So we canceled our visit. My plan was on the way home, take the kids to this Playmobil Fun Park. I had wanted to take them, since its cheap (only $1 per person, they just try to get your money when you leave, with the exit leading directly THRU their store!) but its an hour away, so it's not really on my way anywhere. But I figured if I'm driving home from Stuart, it would be on the way. But our Friday/Saturday plans were changed and that would no longer work.
So Saturday comes and its raining, badly, all day. I think it said 80 or 90% chance of rain, which means, its going to be raining for sure! I think the kids were bored, and I was a little bored, too, and we all missed Ray, so I decided we would drive up and go to the Playmobil Fun Park (and with the hour drive up I knew Nate would get some naptime in there), and then about 5:30 we would leave and head a half an hour north to surprise Ray and pick him up from work and maybe go out to dinner. The kids had a fun time in this CRAZY place where they have all these sections of toys set up for the kids to play with. It can be kind of crazy when there's a lot of kids in one section. Grace had to wait a little while to be able to play at the Princess Castle table. But the kids had a great time. I'd like to go again, with Ray next time (it helps when you need to be in 2 places at once to actually have 2 people there) and stay for longer. Anyway, I called Ray about 5pm and double checked he was still thinking he was getting off at 6, and then told him I would come pick him up. So off we went, picked up Ray and decided to have a little dinner at Carrabba's. My dinner and Ray's were both VERY good. I highly recommend the Polla Rosa Maria if you go!! Then after dinner, Ray wanted to stop by this place called Riverwalk in downtown Stuart. Its a really nice area along the St. Lucie River (which I thought was the ocean, ha ha). There was a few restaurants or bars nearby, I think, but it was just a really nice place to walk around at or to sit for a while. It was very nice out; not too warm and very windy. It had a nice little playground for the kids to play in, so we let them work off some energy for a little bit. We had a great time, except for when Ray stubbed his toe on the playground, and actually cut his toe a little. But other than that it was nice day and nice evening with Ray. Ray thought my ideas were very good! I'm glad he approved. He worked hard and deserved some fun time!
I took some pictures of the kids playing, but I haven't downloaded it yet. So here are some pics from the internet of where we went:
This is the entrance to the park/store
This is a pic of the type of castle Grace was playing with.
She had a great time playing with other kids.
This is also another example of the types of things the kids had to play with.
This is a really nice pic of Riverwalk. See the wodden dock looking thing?
You walk on that alongside the River. It was nice!
And here is another really nice pic of how the bridge looks at night.
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