Fun family day at Metro Beach in Mt. Clemens

Today was an interesting day. The plan was to have about 7 families with young kids to meet out at Metro Beach Metropark in Mt. Clemens to have an outdoor fun day. The weather was supposed to be partly cloudy up until around 2:00 at which point it was going to start getting ugly. We left the house around 10:45 am and it was pouring rain…REALLY REALLY hard rain! We had a back up plan, but most of the families bailed when the weather tanked. When we got to the beach, it was still raining. However, our friends the Carters and the Cesarios were still up for a fun day so we all went to CJ Barrymores in Mt. Clemens which has a whole lot of fun stuff to do. While it was raining, we stayed inside and played some video games with the kids and had some fun inside. Around noon, the weather cleared up at which point we went out on the bumper boats and had a blast with the kids. We had a squirt gun truce planned so I brought my new little camera to shoot some video of everyone on the bumper boats, but the squirt gun truce lasted all of about 4 seconds. When I tried to tuck my camera away, I jammed the lens and broke it…not a good idea to have it on the bumper boats anyway, I should have known better.
After a little climbing wall and bunjee bounce, it was around 2:00 at which point the weather was supposed to get really bad. But it never did so we went back to Metro Beach and the kids got to play at the Squirt Zone park which was a blast for them. All in all we had a really fun day today.
Next Saturday it’s back to work for us, so we tried to enjoy the weekend with friends while we had the chance!!