that we could awaken your connection to the ocean, to nature. We all know how that turned out, don't we, Rai? What we called a spirit quest, you called nap time.Yesterday, we tried again. It was an abnormally hot, Spring day in San Francisco. We joined the thousands who come out to Ocean Beach on days like this. This time, we harnessed you into your super fancy Bob Revolution stroller (thanks Grandpa Bob) as if strapping you into some rocket ship and rolled downhill towards Sutro Heights Park.
A week ago, slinging you to my chest had put you to sleep so maybe speeding downhill in the stroller, then off road across the lawns of the park would keep you alert enough to appreciate the sunset over the great Pacific. We were determined: this time we would succeed in convincing you of the grandeur of nature!
Alas, success comes in many forms. Our only success this day was to lull you to sleep once more. Although you didn't have the spiritual experience we had hoped for, we did have one of our own. At one of the many incredible lookouts along the clifftop Land's End trail, a crowd stood
silently around a man with bagpipes. As the sun slowly settled into the horizon, the piper played a haunting melody, moving all listeners almost to tears (well, me at least). Rai, however, had a slightly different opinion of the musical accompaniment to the end of this day. "I'm trying to sleep!" you cried. A challenge did you say? We'll keep trying these spirit quests, you keep trying to sleep through them. Who will win?
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