Mall Playland Part 5 - Rainy Weekend

This weekend my wife and I took Baby J to the mall playland for a little family outing. It had been raining hard for several days but the weather had just begun to break. It was gray and wet but for the first time in several days, the rain stopped. As we drove to the mall I noticed the gullies and streams along the roadside were swollen with rain water and gushing like miniature mountain rapids.

The mall was also swollen, suffused with people. I guess everyone was sick of being cooped up and decided to get out with their kids like we were. The playland, like the gullies and streams along the road, was filled to the brim. Children were everywhere running wild. Baby J was outsized by the innumerable big kids pushing and pulling and leaping so we weren't able to stay long. I thought it sad that she had been displaced but those big kids looked as though they really needed to blow off some steam.

Baby J was satisfied to walk up and down the mall and eat part of a pretzel so, all in all, it was a successful excursion. But the trip underscored for me how different things are when you work. Normally, Baby J and I have the whole playland to ourselves. On weekends, when everybody's free, attendance swells like crazy.

Listening To: Zidane by Mogwai