Picnic in the Park

I woke up early Saturday morning, but not early enough to make it to church. Looked over at my wife who seemed, who looked as if she wanted to do something different, something not part of our routine, something spontaneous from before we had our monster. I asked if she wanted to have a picnic in the park instead. Her eyes glazed over and pretty much shouted at me, not a mean shout but a happy YES.

She immediately became half undressed; she’d been half dressed for church, and redressed for a picnic instead. I went into the kitchen to prepare our meal; my wife does not do much of the cooking. I made us some black bean patty sandwiches with spinach, cheese (sharp cheddar), tomato and Caesar salad dressing (we were out of mayonnaise). I cleaned out two water bottles and filled them with mango nectar, and placed them in a little cooler bag. I even placed a few carrots into a snack bag, for us. I took all the food and carefully placed it into our wicker picnic box, that we have only used on one other occasion and that was to the beach, before we moved to Omaha, Ne to become land locked.

I rummaged thru our closet and picked out two blankets, I have misplaced my picnic blanket, which is waterproof. I pulled out our little Monster’s stroller from the closet and switched it out for the one in my car. I then packed everything into the car including my little Devil and his food supply.

We arrive to the park and pick out the perfect spot; I lay out the blankets and prepare for our feast. I took a few pictures of the wildlife in the area. As we are reaching the endpoint to our picnic we hear sirens and screams for help. The sirens get closer and there in the park’s parking lot are four police cruisers. Patrolmen jump out of their cars and run into the park. One of them jumps a fence into one of the homes back yard, two of them are barely able to climb over the fence and fall on the ground as they finally make it over. Others just did not even try, I am feeling confident in the police department at this moment.

We decide to pack and leave. As we are leaving the park my wife and I could 14 police cruisers and 1 police motorcycle. Next time we have a picnic I supposed I’d go armed. My wife wanted something out of our normal routine and that’s exactly what she got.