On Tuesday we visted a "barefoot park" which basically turned out to be a trail through the woods and fields that one walked while barefoot. Now I'll be the first to admit that I was a tad leary about the whole thing, after all, shoes were invented for a reason but your children were opened minded about the experience and set off with great zeal not even hesitating when it was time to walk through the mud.



So what kind of things did we have to walk through? Funny you should ask. In addition to the mud we walked through all sorts of things such as water, gravel, pebbles, pinecones, dirt, sand and logs. (One of the purposes of the park was to use your senses to experience to world around you, which is a fancy way of saying that a few of the surfaces hurt! Mrs. Grafakos remains convinced that she has a splinter in the sole of her foot and it will be many weeks before my poor little toes forgive me.)

As it seems unlikely that anyone will believe this story without proof, I offer the following illustrations.