Cornwall Park

This weekend I took the little boys on an outing to Cornwall Park down in Epsom.  First we walked to Britomart and got on the bus.  Amiri was so good at following my directions:  when it was time to get off, he waited for me to get Arram's stroller safely off and to then turn back for him--he didn't jump down onto the street unsupervised.   Then we walked and walked, and waited for our next bus, and did it all again.  The boys got a little fussy on the second bus, so I doled out bits of trail mix one by one to keep them occupied.  While we were on the bus, it started to rain.  HARD.  Uh-oh.

But it was just a cloudburst and was resolved by the time we arrived.  There is an impressive fountain at the entrance of the park.

We proceeded in, past the Saturday morning rugby matches.  The sun came out and it was absolutely beautiful.  I took my jacket off and enjoyed the first t-shirt day of the year.

Amiri enjoyed running through the grass, running back and forth under a stone arch commemorating The Great War, and finishing up the trail mix.

 I really only had to keep track of Amiri; here is what Arram was doing starting from shortly after his snack:

Then we retraced our steps to get home, and since the little guys were hungry we stopped at a cafe for a plate of noodles and some milk tea.  They boys were absolutely wonderful the whole time-- no crying, no tantrums.  The worst thing that happened was that Amiri sat in gum at the bus stop (and that's not so bad!)  After arriving home after all that exercise, Amiri napped for about three hours.