It a sunny Thursday. It’s lunch time. It’s downtown. Your friends are ready. You are ready. You even have your own mallet. There is only one course of action: Croquet in Lafayette Square!

As this intrepid trio did today, you too can do tomorrow. Bring your own balls, hoops, and stakes, and be ready to toss a mallet if a squirrel gets uppity or in your way.

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”