Not sure where you are located but :
- Everybody loves the butterflies at Reiman Gardens.
- Rather than watch the horses race, you can watch them graze and play close-up at the Equine Barn on ISU campus.
- DSM Art Center is quite wonderful for people of all ages. And free. Kids Film Fest on Saturday, 12 July
http://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/aspx/events/event-detail.aspx?eventID=15719
- How about a simple picnic at Waterworks Park or Gray's Lake or some other cool park? Play Frisbee. Ride bikes.
- What if you all just sit around, snuggle and tell stories? Or grab your blankets and lie out under the stars (assuming we have a clear night of course, and that you are far enough away from street lights to see).
- Have a backyard Olympics and make Grandpa and Grandma participate, too. Fun competitions, like blowing bubbles, and unwrapping a stick of gum with socks on your hands.
- Maybe Grandma could bake cookies with the girls and Grandpa could teach them to play dominoes or some other old-timey game.
I do sometimes wonder why everything has to be a scheduled and/or organized event nowadays...isn't it more fun and memorable to invent your own kind of entertainment? And just be lazy together?
