If anyone deserved a trip to the playground after daycare today, it was Charlotte! She has been one sick little girl for quite some time now and playgrounds were out of the picture. She was finally back at daycare, the sun was shining afterwards, and it was time to get back in the swing of things. We're not on track to get 101 by the end of the year at this rate - we'd better pick up the pace!
We got the nearby geocache first, "Have a Ball". It wasn't too difficult to find and soon we were at the playground. Charlotte started off on the small slide, but it was disappointingly slow, so she decided she wanted to tackle the big slide. And the big slide was BIG! She couldn't climb to the top by herself because the steps were too big, so I got recruited into giving her a boost when she needed it. But I do draw the line at accompanying my child down the ladder. Seriously. One of the dads was taking his kid down the slide and I will never understand that. Is it about safety? Because it seems to me that you're safer when you're in control of your own actions than when a couple of hundred pounds of dad is also added to the mix. Anyway, Charlotte managed three or four goes on the slide before she suddenly chickened out and had enough.There were some fun kids playing at the playground - one of them pointed out a caterpillar that we went and examined. One of the grandparents was not so kind - she made disparaging remarks about Charlotte: "I think it's a girl," she said. What gave it away? Must have been the purple shoes! Her own grandaughter was dressed in voluminous skirts and lots of lace for her trip to the playground, so whatever to her.
Another fun thing at this playground was all the toys! Some old toys were lying around: stuff to ride on or to dig in the sand. It was kind of nice to have a few little extras. We were here for an entire hour before I had to insist that it was time to go home for dinner. The playground is located at N 49.13.785 W 123.05.928: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z7IAXiVD2wGY.ke14vi-3MYtI&pli=1
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