Eating out

Met some friends for lunch today. Its a full-on outing with two children in tow. To start, we were around 45 minutes late and then our toddler kept the entertainment and noise levels at a peak, forcing our friends to crawl under tables, helping him to save people and put out fires.
The extent of a child's imagination and improvisation skills never cease to amaze me. At home we have a child's motorised quad bike that doubles as a fire-engine, with part of a broken toy hoover as the hosepipe and a lion's mask as the gas mask. At the restaurant, the table made a great hiding place and fires broke out in any available nook and cranny. If only us adults could take so much enjoyment from so little...