I'm sitting at the park adjacent to the library where I routinely steal internet, and a girl drives up in a blue dodge pickup. A clown car effect follows. About 12 children unload, ranging from about my age down to newborn. The boys wear checkered collared shirts tucked into bluejeans. The girls wear colorful prairie dresses and french braids. Each kid unloads one younger. The ten year old helping out the toddlers, the toddlers helping out the babies.
Even more surprising, they then unload bikes and skateboards and begin to run around the skate park. An 8-year old girl, a prototypical Mormon, leads the pack. Her skateboard skills, impress me, making do in her ankle length dress, leggings, and sensible shoes.
The older ones dispense Popsicles. Not a bad day, really. A day with the family in the park, though their relation to eachother is unclear.
Four middle aged European tourists look on with looks of confusion or bemusement. A cultural experience to be sure.
They must think --
"America..what a strange place."
I think so too.
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Wow... that's awesome. Makes me miss America a bit.
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