Today was Field Day at Westwood Elementary and again Dad was there to help out. I loved playing skeeball on the Ocean City
boardwalk as a kid, so I was happy to sign up to run the "Giant Skee Ball" game. It pretty much resembled skeeball only in that
you were trying to put a ball somewhere. Nevertheless, it was fun to watch the kids running about with various levels of
coordination trying to bounce tennis balls off of a trampoline and into a bucket. There were definitely more girls than boys who
got in on the first try. Boys tended to throw the ball at the trampoline with quite a bit more gusto than was needed. Zara came
over and gave me a wet hug halfway through the event, but I didn't see Maxwell until the end. 5th graders are pretty much the coolest
people around, and one wouldn't want to tarnish reputation that by being seen alongside one's goofy parents. He still helped me
clean up at the end though, vying with the other kids to carry the largest objects back to the gym.
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