Fun with friends while in Tacoma

Some of the friends we used to play
with. Rob and Debbie are on the ends.
One of the cats is one that we brought
with us when we moved back to Illinois.

More friends. Debbie and Joan in
the center. Notice the old camera!

I'm the one posing and Joan is in the

back on the far left. We used to

do a lot of bike riding and roller skating in front of

the house. Our skates were

the metal kind that you attached to your

shoes and used a skate key to tighten. They

could get bigger or smaller-it all depended

on who was using them at the time. We

used a lot of our imagination then. My

school had a tether ball that I liked to

play and since we didn't have the money to

buy one, I found an old basketball that had

holes in it and put a rope through it and

tied it to a tree and played with it that way!

I also liked to lie on a blanket in the front

yard and look at the clouds to see what shapes

I could find. There was a park across the street

in front of our house and behind the houses on

the other side that we all played at. All it had were

swings and monkey bars but we had a lot of

fun. We would go as high as we could on the

swing and then jump and see who could go

the farthest. I know we never broke anything but

I'm very surprised! I don't think we had any

board games. Joan and I liked to sit in our room

with little pieces of paper and write notes back

and forth. (early e-mail?) I also liked to put the

kitchen chairs in a row and pretend they were

a train. (Bristols love for Thomas the train?)

I had a doll that I loved and we used to play

house.