We visit the Maplewood Picnic
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
What’s this you ask? Well, of course it’s a clumsily stitched panorama of last weekend’s Maplewood Picnic! (click it - it gets bigger) We all headed over to Maplewood Elementary for the big neighborhood shindig, put on by the Maplewood Neighborhood Association. Even though this is not a school event, it’s held on the grounds of the school and quite a few of Jr. V’s friends were there.
We didn’t go to this event last year - I can’t figure out why not, but we certainly won’t miss it next year. They really put on the dog. The hot dog, that is. As well as free popcorn, ice cream, coffee, soda water, iced tea and cupcakes! We donated a few bucks after grabbing like our 200th thing of popcorn. As you can see, there were several tents set up - all the free food was along the blacktop, above, and the community booths were out along the ball field. At some point the police showed up with a paddywagon (do they still call them that?) and all the kids piled into the back to be locked in for a bit. I vividly remember when I was a kid, walking home from school, our route took us past the police station, and of we were really lucky - we could talk them into putting us in a jail cell for a while. Some fascinations are timeless I guess. {Insert Lindsey Lohan joke here.}
The new playground is up and in full effect! It was literally crawling with kids the whole time.
Another view of the great new playground.
Did I mention there was live music, and a raffle? Lots of fun was had, and despite threatening clouds, it never rained. We’ll definitely go again next year. Thanks Maplewood NA!