Last Saturday we went to a park in Whittier for my little cousin’s 2nd birthday.  It was a cute park, the weather was perfect and it was the first time Mister had really  been out and about since being home from the hospital so it was a great outing.

My cousin informed us to have the girls bring bathing suits because the park had this big sprinkler-thingy for the kids to get wet at the playground.  So the girls stripped off their shorts and kicked off their shoes and ran to the playground in their bathing suits ready to go.

We spent the afternoon with my family, talking, laughing, listening to music, watching the kids play and enjoying a good picnic style lunch.  It was really a nice day.

Now that Mister is in the healing process after surgery he’s not able to stay active for long periods of time, he gets tired a lot more these days so by 3:30′ish we were going to start wrapping it up to head home, we still had a 30 minute drive plus had to stop at the market, too.   So I told the girls to look for their shoes and start getting their things together, that’s when the search began.

The Snitch had stopped getting wet long before so she was dressed and had on her black tennis shoes on, we saw them on her feet.  Then, for some unknown reason, she takes them off at the big playground and leaves them there.   So when we told her to get them back on she can’t find them.   What do you mean you can’t find them? I said.  They’re gone she said.  We looked and looked and looked and looked for those shoes of hers and know what?  They were gone! 

We don’t know if someone stole them, buried them in the sand or hid them but her shoes were absolutely GONE!  

The kids ended up staying longer at the park with my parents and my mom said she’d help her look for them one more time before leaving but she came home barefoot.   We have NO idea what happened to her shoes.  And wouldn’t you know it, that’s the day she wore her better play shoes instead of her old favorites with the hole on the side.   lol