Bocce Ball

We all shared a first today:  bocce ball!  Daddy had never played before, and neither had Madison or Mommy.  Our thoughts were of the local mini-golf course at a place called Tree Tops, but it was advertised as open until 8:00 on Sundays online, but when we got there, a sign on the door said otherwise.  So back to Ba-Ba and Nana's we headed, contemplating what else to do - until we passed by the bocce ball courts.  That's when we all admitted we never tried the game before - one that Nana and Ba-Ba knew how to play.  But we did not!

Still, Madison did really well!  It had to do with the fact that Mommy and Daddy over-tossed the ball for the most part!  But Madison even did well against Nana and Ba-Ba too.  She was throwing the red ball - take a look below to see how she did the last round:

She was our pallino girl tonight.  That's the name of the little white ball - a pallino.  Either that, or the pallino is an inner organ.  By the time we were done, we still weren't quite sure of the ending scoring rules.  Still it was fun though, especially for Madison.

To describe this day is summed up thus:  bocce ball was our most exciting event of the day.  Madison went swimming early in the morning with Nana, the two of them off and having fun together for a little over an hour.  Mommy and Daddy spent the day reading, doing a puzzle, playing Scrabble, and relaxing a bit.  It was a long day just lounging about really.  Daddy did a bit of writing, working on a new message for KidPak next month, but overall there wasn't much accomplished in this one day.  Unless you count resting, in which case we accomplished a whole lot!