It's been a while, been a looooong wet winter. We haven't made it back to Jekyll yet but we're still hoping. Dad's also interested in checking out a state park up in Winder. It's got dog-friendly cabins and looks like it might be nice. To date though, circumstances have conspired to keep us from any major expeditions and that's actually turned out to be a bit of a learning experience for us.
Dad's been taking us on a lot of shorter local trips. Lil and I love to lounge on the loveseat dad put in the van for us. There's room enough for a luxurious sprawl for both of us and Lil seems to understand that my sharing the loveseat with her in no way indicates that I have given up my rights to the front seat. Unfortunately, there aren't too many places where we can just stop and run or swim so we usually try to get over to the park in Pooler but being as how that's 25 or so miles away, the opportunities are fewer than we'd like.
Dad was talking to one of his coworkers a while back who asked why we didn't just go to the park in Ellabell. Well, we just never thought of it. To be truthful, when one is planning a fun outing, Ellabell just doesn't jump out but as it happens, there's a lovely park over there and it's only 5 miles away. It also seems to be much more dog-friendly with fewer restrictions and lots and lots of room to run and swim in the several acres of interconnected ponds. As it's just down the road from us, we can go pretty much any time we please and we do. Dad's got to work the night shift tonight but still had time to take us both for an hour or so. Unfortunately, he wouldn't let me bring home any of the geese that were sharing our pond. I just want to go on record as saying that I would very much like to bring home a goose or duck some day. In spite of that, I'm so glad we discovered this gem. We're not going to give up on doing some big trips now and then too but life just always seems to get in the way of the bigger plans and scaling down our ambitions a bit has resulted in a lot more opportunities to address our original goal of making some happy memories together while we're still able.
