The most perfect weather, the most perfect plan, the most prefect art supplies (Dr Ph MArtin's concentrated watercolours) but...
The perfect snacks ran low once a gnome trail had been crumbled and then enforced creativity resulted in older-sibling rebellion and then my temper frayed and all sense of being at peace faded, until P arrived and some semblance of order resumed, though the hunger thing continued.
Maslov could have predicted much of it.