Marianne, while laughing at your story I was recalling an episode from the Old Days of Ask.com, the first Q/A site I ever found...some youngster asked a special question for the Old Folks, "What did you do to have fun before the days of computers?"
Well it went on for pages and pages and pages...skipping rocks in the pond, floating down the river on an inner tube, excursions in the woods - all kinds of outdoor stuff with companions, much of which is not really even available much anymore...