Memorial Day Weekend

Hansel, realizing a holiday weekend was coming up, planned out our whole weekend. He figured on Saturday we'd go to Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos, where we originally wanted to take Beck for his birthday. The park has a kids train and a carousel. And then after the park, we'd have lunch in downtown Los Gatos.

The kids played in the playgrounds first while I fed Mathis, and then we got in line for the train. It took a while because it's a decent length ride and the staff at first wasn't making a concerted effort to fill all the seats. When we got toward the front of the line, they added a longer car to the train and were much better about filling the seats. I think they noticed the line growing out of control.

Maile took this photo of me and Mathis.

After the train ride, Beck wanted to ride the carousel. Maile wasn't interested. I think she had had her fill of carousels. I asked Beck if he wanted to ride a horse since previously he had always sat on one of the bench seats with Hansel. He said okay and seemed pretty excited until it started moving. Then he looked petrified and was grasping onto the horse for dear life. At one point he reached for me, and I think quickly realized getting off while the carousel was moving would not be a good idea.

By the time we left the park, Beck was very tired. So after getting a little lost trying to make our way to downtown Los Gatos, we decided to just go to McDonald's. It's faster, and it had a play structure. We were there for quite a while and even ran into a pair of twins from Maile's class.

Taken with my phone

On Sunday we went to Gilroy Gardens for the first time. Hansel had bought season passes the night before. They were the same price as a regular ticket. Hansel had read online that the park doesn't get very crowded and is clean. The latter comment seems kind of strange but very true. And when we got there, which was about 1/2 hr after the park opened, there was hardly anyone there. By the time we got over to the big cars ride, which was right after lunch, there was a decent amount of people. So it took a while to get through a couple of the more popular rides.

While waiting for Hansel, Maile, and Beck at the boat ride, I spent part of the time watching and worrying over a duckling who was stuck between the two rails. Its crazy mama had tried to cross the rails. I was going to tell Hansel to scoop the duckling to safety, but luckily it finally made its way back over.

The duck and its duckling are on the rock that the three are looking at.