How is that we have gone almost all year without visiting this amazing playground so close to work and daycare?!? The days are so short now that we did most of our playing in the dark, but it was still pretty amazing. "I love this playground!" Charlotte announced as she headed yet again for the dodgy steps up to the super-long slide that wasn't too fast or too slow, but was just right. She didn't like the steps at first and would make me hold her hand as she climbed them, then I would run down again to catch her at the bottom. I was proud of her when she got brave enough to do them by herself, though I didn't get as much exercise out of it when that happened! Charlotte doesn't like to be crowded when she's getting ready to go down the slide, so when two older boys were jostling her at the top, I asked them to wait until she had gone down. She was half-way down when they came barrelling down behind her, knocking into her and sending her flying. She was quite upset and cried hard, but she was more surprised than anything. That didn't stop me from angrily telling the boys that I had asked them to wait. At least the parents came rushing up and apologized to us and dealt with their kids.
Charlotte and I went off to explore other parts of the playground while she recovered from her little trauma; it's made from natural materials for the most part and is pretty amazing. There is a giant crowsnest in the middle of the playground with several ways up, none of which Charlotte is ready for yet. When she is, my heart will be in my throat as it's very tall and designed to be challenging for sure. She recovered from her incident on the slide and was soon back at it again. It was all I could do to tear her away to go home for dinner and the geocache that was hidden nearby was completely out of the question! I ended up going back the next day during my lunch break to find "CoRGQ #18 - Trees Galore". A new challenge to take up - the Richmond GeoQuest! The playground is located at N 49.09.917 W 123.07.363 and is point #86 on the map at the bottom of home page.
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