Connor's birthday

 We have a teenager in the house! Connor's birthday party is planned for the following weekend. After our Manito Park trip we stopped at My Fresh Basket.  They have a homemade fresh bakery area that we love. The boys picked out their favorite deserts. Kaiden picked a chocolate donut. Connor picked a coconut macaroon and some lemon zest madeleines. I bought a box of chocolate no bake cookies for Jason.  That night Connor got to open his presents from us and Grandma, Grandpa. His #1 gift that he wanted was a chrome laptop. He got that and a galaxy laptop case. (we originally bought him an "orange" case, but turns out it was more coral than orange so we returned it and he picked the galaxy case instead.)  First picture is Kaiden doing his zoom meeting with his tutor, Kristin.

Riverfront Park, part 2

 Second playground at Riverfront park- Providence Playscape. There was only 1 other kid there. Plus they have shade cover! Afterwards we checked out the fountain and then decided to go home. We were all hot and tired.

Riverfront Park

 We finally checked out the new Ice Age Floods playground at Riverfront park in Spokane. The park opened this last May. There is a 3-story Columbian slide tower, Glacial Dam splash pad, a log jam climber, an alluvial deposit fossil dig, and more. The playground covers 40,000 square feet at Riverfront's North Bank.  The boys had fun, although Connor didn't run around and play nearly as much as Kaiden. He still had fun though. It was 100 degrees and we were at the park for 2 hours. There was a group of summer camp kids there too, so after we explored initially we bought some ice cream and sat in the shade to take a break. Just as we finished our ice cream treat the camp kids left for lunch so there wasn't hardly any kids on the playground. We played for a while until the camp kids came back and then we decided to walk around Riverfront park.