Today for Mother's Day we went to ride our first carousel!
We went to Salem Willows Park, which is right on the ocean and covered in two-hundred-year-old willow trees. At one point there were three carousels, but now there is only one.
We have been talking up our the kids for a while, so to say we were excited might just be an understatement. The carousel didn't open until noon and we got there at eleven o'clock. We took a walk around Willows Park, which was really nice. The morning was chilly, but right as it was time to go for our ride it warmed up. It was a beautiful day to start our carousel quest!
Will and Rory get ready to board:
In the picture below, take a look at the little horse next to the chicken. So little! In one of the original carousels the carver made horses in lots of different sizes, much like this little horse and the red horse that Rory is on a few pictures down. These aren't original carvings
though, they are replicas made of cast aluminum. The closest this carousel comes to an antique is a claim that its top and bottom are from one of the original three in Salem.
Will, Ryan, and I chose to go on horses that went up and down. Brynn's first ride:
Part of the facade:
A galloper:
Ahhh!:
Some more of the animals:
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