After the train ride and our picnic lunch, we drove to nearby Harris Lake County Park to check it out, since we'd never been there. We didn't really have a plan, and since Simon was fast asleep, we thought we might just drive by then go home. But one look at the fake climbing rocks on the playground and I knew we had to stop and let Alice play on the playground while Simon napped in the van with Zac.
We took a little walk down to the lake, which is the reservoir for the Harris Nuclear Power Plant. A man fishing on the pier caught a fish and let Alice touch it. I made sure it didn't have three eyes.
Once Simon woke up, we went to a different part of the park that had a little nature play area. Simon and Alice both loved the tunnel, but Simon crawled back and forth so much I thought he was going to get tunnel lung from all the dust in there.
Simon also had lots of fun picking up sticks and poking around in the sand and leaves.
Alice especially loved digging in the dirt. At the end of the day, when we asked her what her favorite part was (thinking it would be the train) she said it was digging in the dirt. So who knows, maybe she will be a paleontologist.
Finally, we walked down to the shore, where Alice plucked seaweed out of the water and gave it to Simon.
