Doors Open

Yesterday was a beautiful day and best of all ... Rob is done school now and we can start enjoying our Saturdays a bit more by have a few hours of family time each Saturday. We started this last year, but it was cut short by James' continual hospital stays. Each Saturday afternoon we like to take a few hours to see a park, go biking, visit a waterfalls, or check out some new place ... of course they all have to fall into the description of "free". We have enjoyed these times and it's so wonderful to see the kids appreciate God's creation.

Yesterday the City of Hamilton had it's annual Doors Open Hamilton and we were looking forward to taking advantage of this by getting to view something we normally wouldn't because it doesn't fall into the "free" description. We had picked Dundurn Castle as our destination. With James' current medication situation and this being a public place with lots of traffic, we had arranged a babysitter. Unfortunately this fell through and much to the girls disappointment, who had been asking for weeks when they could see the castle, we had to find another plan.

So instead for our first Saturday Family Time we chose Puddicome Farms in Winona ... further out we figured it wouldn't be that busy and it being outdoors we figured it'd be safe for James. Well, it wasn't worth our drive and hardly classified as Doors Open (in that it's free when it's normally not) as there never is a fee to enter and they still charged for the train rides, which we did not go on. But we were right, it wasn't busy. Oh well, the kids still had some fun at the playground and it was still family time.

James did enjoy checking out some of the farm animals, although mostly he enjoyed just being able to run in the wide open space.

Thomas the Train

Normally we keep James away from sand as much as possible as it's not a good thing to get in his tube area, but this contraption kept him busy and away from the actual sand, while still being able to enjoy it.