So we (Mommy, Daddy, Deven, Rohan) all have the day off.
Today like yesterday, we have come to one of our favorite parks, Parque Ninos Unidos at 23rd & Folsom in the heart of the Mission.
It's a large, triangular-shaped park, because it's in the former right-of-way for a railroad from when the City was first planned-out. It has a small grassy area great for soccer, a lovely little-kids area with hobby horses, seesaw, fort with slide, and a big-kids area with a merry-go-round, *huge* climbing structure & massive sandbox, that Deven expressly said he wanted to visit today.
THE CULTURAL COMMENT
Yesterday when we came, it was full of Latino and a few Muslim families (I think- the women were wearing headscarves and modest long sleeves). Big boys and small; rambunctious & polite - lots of dark-haired kids speaking Spanish and (I think) Urdu with their moms & dads. All were all running around having a good time.
Today, by contrast, it's the Invasion Of The White Hipsters. There are perhaps 1/2 the number of kids / people here today, and - no joke - *every single one is white*.
Oh, ok - after 1 hour, a woman with dark skin & corkscrew-curls has shown up...but even her baby is white.
It's interesting, for a few reasons:
- we're in the Mission
- it's a holiday
- we ourselves are a mixed-culture family.
Shall have to think further about this - right now, Deven needs to go pee - in the big-boy pottie (yay!)
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