This morning Jamie got us up at 6:00, we fed him and let him lay in the bed with us until Aubrey got up. We watched one show and jumped up. Steven took the polliwogs downstairs to eat, while I got a shower. After we all were ready I took off with the kids. Steven has had plans to work in the playroom all day. So, I decided to meet Melissa for a play date today. We took off to the park.
Burlington is a city about 15 minutes from the house. It is in the same county as us. We are in Alamance County. So, relating this to Thomasville, (my home town). It would be like Thomasville, Grove Hill, and Jackson all in the same county. So, Burlington is sorta bigger than Mebane, and has lots of neat things like this City Park that we like to go to. It has amusement rides for 60 cents a ride. So, we like to go there. They do fun things there throughout the year, and Melissa has had Haley's Birthday Party there a few times, we have gone there at Christmas, Easter Egg Hunts, you name it, it is really fun and cheap. We met there at 10:00, but we didn't realize that it opened at 11:00. So, the girls played on the playground until it opened. Then we bought tickets. We did all the rides once. Then we sat under a tree for Popcorn and a Slush Puppy. I am including pictures. I think that Aubrey likes the train the best, she likes to scream in the tunnels. A close second would be the merry-go-round. However, I heard the name Hobby Horse a couple of times today, I wonder why they call the horses -Hobby Horses? Jamie slept through the entire time. It must have been the heat. It was really hot.
After the park, we headed to the little shoe store in downtown Burlington, where you can still find Keds, (which are not easy find). Chase is starting Kindergarden in a few weeks and Melissa needed some new shoes for her. So, we went to the same shoes store where Melissa's mother bought her shoes, and the park, well it has been around for a while too. Her parents went to the same park. "Alamance Tradtion" I suppose. Speaking of, for lunch today, we had more "Alamance Tradtion". There is this Hot Dog joint that Melissa took us to, it is 75 years old. Imagine a Waffle House serving hotdogs, and this is what it is like. They also sold cokes in the bottle, tall and short! Aubrey had her 1st coke in the bottle today. She doesn't get coke too often, so she kept getting the fizzy in her nose. She thought that it was strange. I had my first Cheerwine, it is sorta a cherry coke. Melissa said that I can't live in North Carolina and not have a Cheerwine, they are made here. The cokes were more than the food. For us five to eat it was $17, not bad. The girls like playing (Cheers) with they bottles, they liked clanking them together.
While we were there, this family next us totally endured us. They thought Jamie was such a great baby. The dad was Tyson Bird (Mr. T-Bird). He was really nice and Aubrey made pals real quick. There is a picture of him. I am so thankful for them putting up with all of us.
After this we headed to the pool. However we weren't even there long enough to get wet when a storm blew in. So, we packed up and came home for a nap. We are going back later this afternoon. I just wanted to share about our fun morning. I hope that you are having a DOG-GONE GOOD SATURDAY!
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Christy is the first "transplant" that I have grown to love! Because I love her and her family I feel that it is important that she get to experience the little things that make this area special. The things I show her are typically things that my granparents and parents exposed me to as a child and that I want to share with my children... and I don't want Aubrey and Jaime to miss out either. Melissa
This is the history of our Carousel and our trian:
The Burlington City Park Carousel is a three-row Dentzel Menagerie Carousel built around 1906-1910 at the Dentzel Carousel Company on Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Carousel was purchased by the City of Burlington for $3,500.00 the summer of 1948 from Mr. Carl Utoff the owner of Forest Amusement Park in Genoa, Ohio. Mr. Utoff purchased the machine in or around 1924 from Locust Point Amusement Park in Oak Harbor, Ohio.
There are 46 hand-carved wooden animals including 26 horses, four ostriches, rabbits, and pigs; reindeer, giraffes, lions and tigers, and two chariots. These animals are hand-carved out of bass and poplar wood and are a hollow series of boxes and wood pieces glued together with hide glue into the basic shape, and then carved by hand. The Dentzel carvers were noted for their realism with the carving of the veins and muscles of the animals. The eyes are made of glass with true pupils, and the tails are real horse hair.
The existing train in Burlington City Park has been around since about 1978/1979. The first train, a G-16 was purchased by the Burlington Kiwanis Club in 1951. Each member of the club went to a local bank and signed a promissory note. The original train was installed and opened in 1951. Today’s train looks nothing like the original. Repairs for the first train became costly when the manufacturing company went out of business. Parts had to be custom made. City staff members began looking for a replacement, and in 1978/1979 a new train was purchased. When the current train was installed workers left the original rails when new ones were constructed. They are visible today.
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