Relief!

It's difficult for me to let go of an idea once I've invested my heart in the hope of doing something. I dared to let myself plan to go play in the sand dunes as I mentioned a few days ago. Try as I may to remain flexible, I *really* wanted to do it. I just wanted to feel the warm sand beneath my feet and the exhilarating feeling of sliding down a hill. The kid in me, stirred up, ready to play, was having trouble letting it go.

We had church in the park today. It was fantastic, two churches joined together and there is so much love between our congregations that it was like a family reunion. A potluck barbecue followed where we ate plenty of wonderful picnic food.

Now, forgive me, but the direction I'm going here is not spiritual. I will say, however, that Mr. Contraptioneer here seems to find it a rather spiritual experience. What is it about boys and passing gas? I digress...

Like I said, we ate great picnic food, but there was a little side effect that was making him uncomfortable. We had company today, so he was doing his best to retain the results of the picnic when I finally won and we ended up at the same dune hill I blipped the day before yesterday. He and I climbed up the hill with our disks and when we got to the top and sat on them, we discovered we didn't know the secret to making them actually slide us down the hill. We couldn't budge! It was pretty funny, we just went nowhere. There was something that did happen, however, just as Mr. Contraptioneer sat on his....well, all I can say is that I was grateful for the nice wind that was blowing to clear the air..so to speak.

After we arrived back at the bottom of the hill where our friend (who was not interested in climbing up the hill and turned out to be the wisest among us) waited, I retrieved my camera and began snapping lots of pictures of the Mr. as he told the story about how this trip had not been a total loss...after all he had gained a great deal of relief at the top of this hill.... (rolls eyes in disbelief...)