The End is Near

I have 6 days left of summer vacation. The kids have 8. We are all ready for school, but it is still so sad to have summer wrapping up.
Prior to today, we had visited 19 different playgrounds this summer. We have visited playgrounds in 5 different states. Sadly, we did not get to one while we were in Iowa, or we could have had 6 states. I told the kids it is no big deal if we don't break last summer's record of 23-that it is more important to have fun and do things we want to do instead of doing things just to break the record. They ( ie...Jonathan) have other plans. He wants the record, even if it is at the expense of fun. Today we visited the Borden Harbor playground in the south side of Mandan (amongst all of the mansions, in Eric's mind). This is one of our favorites, and I can't believe we did not get to it until August. Four more to go!