40. Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School, Vancouver

Every Thursday on our trek from Richmond to North Van, we pass by an elementary school that sports three different playgrounds, all in a row.  Every week, I tell myself we will have to stop there, and finally we got around to it.  Charlotte took off up the ladder on the big kids' playground before I had any chance to have any say in the matter and was at the top before I had any opportunity to worry.  That's the way to do it!  Only trouble was that she couldn't get down again - she wasn't up for the giant slide and hasn't yet figured out how to turn around and go down the ladder backwards.  We soon moved on to playground number two, which was a little more little-kid friendly.  In fact, it was a little bit boring, so we decided to walk a couple of hundred metres further along the school grounds to playground number three.  There was a wire fence around the playground, but it never occurred to me that the entire playground would be inaccessible, but sure enough, the gate was locked shut with coil after coil of chain wrapped through it.  Evidently, someone was adamant that no kids get in there!  Charlotte decided soon after that that she wanted to get going to nana and grandad's, so we packed up and headed out.  Only as soon as we got to the car, she started crying for the playground again!  Not my favourite playground ever, but at least we finally stopped to check it out after driving past it so many times.  The playground is located at N 49.14.580 W 123.02.105: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=z7IAXiVD2wGY.ke14vi-3MYtI&pli=1