things learned at Volunteer Park

1. Take your kid on a sunny day even if he's cranky. He'll uncrank pretty quickly.
   
2. There's a stand of cedar trees that have somehow grown like banyans with multiple trunks poking up from rhizomes. They're easy to climb and they look drop-dead cool. I can't believe we never found them before.
   
3. Bolting a good-sized geodesic dome together takes more people than a basketball team.