Sunday (the 5th) was a fairly mellow day. We went to church, and on the way home I decided we should check out the Goodyear Metro Park near Akron. We had seen the sign for the park for nine years, but had never been. It was a pretty day for a walk, so off we went.

Goodyear Metro park is another excellent park. It has a lit sliding hill (not very useful right now, but looks fun for wintertime), and the hills continued on the walking trails in the woods. We followed signs to a small lake, and walked around it. It was pretty, and I was happy to get out into the area parks again – this was only the second park trip for the summer.

We also started a new Teaching Company series on CD. This one is an excellent English woman professor  lecturing on the tragedies of Shakespeare. We have now heard two of the twenty-four lectures, and I think they are going to be very good.

Last Monday was Labor Day, and after doing house chore sorts of things, we headed down to North Canton to have supper with Aunt Mary. It was nothing too exciting – we got subs from Subway and ate them on the deck – but it was still a very pleasant way to spend the evening. We then went inside and played a Go-Fish sort of game where you had to gather four major cities or sights from a country. It was called Happy Families for some reason (it may have been a weird translation from the German company that made the game). The game had the population of the United States as 176 million people, so it has been around for awhile. The game did not require much in the way of skill or strategy, but it was a fun way to chat and look at the spiffy places on the cards. I think we ended up with a three-way tie of three countries each. I guess we really were just a happy family!