Picnic lunches in the park have given way to fast food restaurants with a “Play Place.”
No, really.
Katherine loves the Play Place jungle gyms/habitrails. So we went there for lunch. So did a number of other parents. So you had the kids running around, screaming, yelling, playing, running back for bites, running away again to caper and frolic some more.
The parents? Sitting there nibbling their food, reading books, etc.
If it had been picnic baskets, a greensward, and swings — rather than trays, air conditioning, and habitrails — the scene would have been just the same.