Merry Go Round
For a treat after grocery shopping, I let George ride on the coin-operated carousel. I put in the 50 cents not realizing that it would start spinning immediately. I had to quickly plop George onto a horse while it was rotating around. George was quite unsure of this contraption and clung to my arms and wouldn't let go. I had to be quite the contortionist to support him until he felt secure enough to hold on to the horsey himself. As the ride ended, I quickly pulled out my phone to snap a picture of the momentous occasion. Once the ride stopped, he immediately climbed off the horse, climbed down from the merry-go-round and then signed "more" to ride it again. I told him that we'd have to wait to ride it another day.
As we were in the checkout earlier, I had picked out a freebie balloon weighted with a sucker to occupy George during the tedious checking out process. Well, neither one of us was holding on to the balloon when we exited the store, and the fierce cold-front wind blew it up out of the cart and out into the parking lot. Because it was weighed down with the sucker, it didn't float off into the sky but rather bounced along down the length of the strip-center. One nice motorist in the parking lot actually tried to mow down the balloon with her car as it bobbed in front of her, in the hopes of catching it for the little boy! I just shot her a thank you wave and shrugged my shoulders as George and I sang "bye-bye" to the balloon. He wasn't upset at all about losing it, he was probably still on a carousel-riding high.
