down memory lane

The girls and I spent a long weekend at my parents' house this past weekend.  While we were there, Rachel wanted to see where her great-grandma was buried (she's asked about it several times in the last few months--I'm not sure why).  So my mom and I took her out to the cemetery.  The cemetery is just down the road from my old house where I grew up (the house is no longer there because it burned down, but the lot is still there, you can see where the house and pool were, and the garage is still standing), so we took her there, too.  I've told her lots of stories about that pool--we lived in that pool in the summers--and about playing back in the woods behind our house (which look much, much closer to the house than they ever were when I was a little girl!), so it was fun to actually show her. 

After that we went to my old elementary school, which isn't far from there.  We got the girls out and let them play on the playground.  Several pieces of the playground equipment are still there from when I was a kid--and a couple of them were even there when my mom went to school there!

So here are my girls playing on the same playground where their mom and grandma played as girls.

I have lots of memories on these monkey bars!

And this slide....

And also this thing (whatever it's called!).

This piece is newer.

After I took these pictures Rachel fell down and cut her chin.  We talked about the possibility of taking her to get stitches, beacuse it was pretty deep and wouldn't stop bleeding, but in the end we decided not to.  It was a not so happy ending to my trip down memory lane.  :(