A Backyard Theme Park

I am in between meetings in Raleigh...I find myself at Panera once again...a different one from Saturday...I am outside enjoying another delicious cup of coffee under an umbrella listening to traffic and two African American ladies chatting it up about detoxing. It's a wonderful afternoon, indeed!
There was one definite thing Landen and I differed on...we both loved the outdoors but he absolutly detested eating outdoors! He insisted that everytime you ate outside it began to rain or the wind picked up or the sun was so bright all you could do is squint or bugs would take over...there was ALWAYS something...so knowing how much both he and Joyanna loved eating outdoors I got them a picnic set for their wedding...complete with a beautiful basket!
I ... on the other hand LOVE to eat outdoors no matter what!
The only time I remember Landen loving to eat in the great outdoors was when we were little and we used to play Silver Dollar City outside with our foster brother and sister (William and Tricia). We would make believe our big red wagon was the trolley and take turns pulling William and Tricia up and down the big hill on Crook Street (in Falls City) while the other one of us would talk on the walkie talkie (the other one being in the wagon with our park guests)..."Welcome to Silver Dollar City"! We had memorized everything the tram drivers did complete with ..."Please wait until we say all ashore, folks...alright... all ashore." We developed rides on our swingset and treehouse...the American Plunge, Thunderation, even the Great Shootout... We would be blasting southern gospel music as to set the ambiance of Silver Dollar City and break out a sideshow every once in a while...Our backyard must have been a disaster to onlookers, but to us it was an AMAZING theme park! Our mom even got involved and served us Barbque Sandwhiches on the back deck. She was great to treat us like park guests...the best mom!
Yes, we would spend entire days playing this and we never tired of it!
My mom has pictures!