Charlotte and I had all the time in the world after daycare today and there was no reason not to venture a little further afield than usual for this evening's playground adventure. I looked up water parks in Delta and we ended up at Memorial Park in Ladner. I have often parked here in the past to bike out to the bird sanctuary or to do a loop out along the dyke and then back along the rural roads.
The spray park was not a big hit at first - Charlotte wanted to be carried everywhere and she really didn't much like all the spray. She soon decided she wanted to go out to the regular playground. She got bored with the little playground pretty quickly and was soon climbing up to the top of the larger mushroom-shaped structure and flying down one of the slides. Actually the slide had a bump in the middle that slowed her sufficiently that she found herself motionless on the slide halfway down. "I'm stuck, mum!" she shouted - until she figured out how to get herself going again.
Eventually, she wanted to try the spray park again. I had been chatting briefly to a woman there the first time around, but this time we got talking a little more. She told me that her boyfriend had died last fall in a boating accident and that she was finally trying to get back to normal with her kids' first visit to the spray park. She teared up and I did too - she told me how her boyfriend had gone to check his crab traps and hadn't come back. His body had been found in US waters several days after he went missing. She was now trying to get her life on track and was taking a nursing program to keep busy and get herself back on her feet.
The kids all played until the water turned off at 7:00 - and Charlotte played longer than that. She liked the spray park better when it was just dribbling water rather than shooting it out at her! The park is located at N 49.05.271 W 123.05.067 and is point 56 on the map at the bottom of home page.
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