City of Parks

Indio is actually called the "city of festivals" for all the music festivals and the world famous Date festival each held here annually. However....as a newcomer I think it should be called the city of parks! There are so many parks here and in the surrounding areas that it gives us plenty of variety on what to do each day. Instead of asking Aria "what to you want to do today?" I ask her "which park would you like to go too?"! For some reason she has decided to color code them and say "the red one" or " the blue one". I have no idea what she means or which park since there are more parks than colors but I nod my head and off we go!

Aria has made a really great new friend David. We meet up at the park a lot and will soon be having pool time together. David just turned 3 last week so they are close in age. Here are a couple pics of them at a little fair we went to at a church.

David and Aria

I have not written since we went and visited the La Quinta fire station here. It was VERY nice. It was a new station and they gave us a tour. We went with the local moms group that I joined here to meet other moms and tots in the area. It was so much fun. They really showed the kids a good time by showing them around, letting them play in the firetrucks, and showing them what they look like in their uniforms and to not be afraid of them. Then they gave them stickers that looked like their badges to wear on their arms and finally them let them each pick out a beanie baby!! Aria got a little snail which we named swirley. It is so cute b/c each time she gets it out she tells us that the fireman gave it to her. Ha! She loved the misting station they had too. This is great b/c they have these around town a lot especially during the hot summer months.

Yeah Mist!!!

Notice her right out front

Giving the fireman a 'high five'

We have all kinda been tossing a cold/allergies around this week and have been a little puny so we are probably not going to be doing too much this weekend. We might try and get in going to a park.
BTW....I do not think I have mentioned that I have REALLY enjoyed being able to stay home with Aria right now. She has been so much fun (most of the time:) ) and we are having a blast learning everyday and wearing each other out! I am so thankful and grateful for this opportunity!
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