35. Unsworth Elementary School, Chilliwack

On an overcast Saturday morning, Charlotte and I set off for Chilliwack, on a mission to work on a geocaching challenge.  We grabbed a geocache that we both needed, then Charlotte was ready for the playground.  We discovered this one because of another nearby geocache - there is a whole series of geocaches devoted to playgrounds out in Chilliwack!  This one was called "Izzy's Parks and Playgrounds #8: Playground Lottery", and unfortunately we couldn't find it, even with some encouragement from a nearby store owner who knew about the cache.  I think it might have disappeared, but that will just give us reason to come back when the cache has been replaced!  I hung out at a picnic table while Charlotte played.  Playground lottery indeed - this was a great playground - three playgrounds in one, really.  Charlotte had a lot of fun hanging out on the small one, sliding repeatedly.  We checked out the big kids playgrounds too - there was a merry-go-round which you don't see often these days, but it was so safety-fied as to be quite boring.  I could barely get it going and there was no possibility of shooting off this cumbersome thing!  Some kids came by to play and they loved Theo, so he had a great time too, racing up and down with them.  A horse grazed nearby and though it felt like it could rain at any moment, it held off.  I broke out lunch and Charlotte paused for a while to eat.  When she went to play again, she took a strawberry and her cup with her and set a little picnic up for herself on a little ledge at the top of the playground and sat down to munch.  Sometimes I think that I am doing one thing really, really right when it comes to Charlotte - encouraging her to play on her own on the playground instead of shadowing her every move as many parents seem to do these days.  It made me happy to see her enjoying the little picnic that she had set up for herself, acting very independently and doing this without my involvement.  She's really getting to be a big girl!  The playground is located at N 49.06.300  W 121.59.897:  https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z7IAXiVD2wGY.ke14vi-3MYtI&pli=1