Our second new playground in a row is birthday party-related! This time we headed to the Richmond Nature Park to celebrate Alex's fifth birthday. The playground itself is a rope pyramid that's a bit much for Charlotte for now, but she did play on it a bit with the other kids. Mostly she cared more about the giant log nearby that was just perfect for climbing on - lots of kids seemed to prefer it over the structure that was actually designed for climbing! When everyone had arrived, we headed along the boardwalk on an Easter egg hunt, with all of the kids finding a treasure.
We ended in the "grassy meadow", where we had a pizza picnic and the kids romped and played. I turned on the GPS from underneath the picnic shelter and found myself just three metres away from "Green Meenie"! At that moment, some other geocachers arrived and we all hunted for the cache together. We actually came back to the park a few days later after work and daycare to climb on the log some more and to find one of the other caches in the park, "Time Machine 2". There are still lots of caches to find in the park, including some of the Richmond GeoQuest caches, so we will be back again for sure! The playground is located at N 49.10.247 W 123.05.640 and is point no. 112 on the map at the bottom of home page.
We were on our way home from nana and grandad's when we made an impromptu decision to stop off at Deer Lake Park. The rhodos were in full bloom and we had a great walk through the gardens. Charlotte had me read the plaque on every single bench we passed (kinda morbid!) and she asked everyone she met if they knew that she was FOUR - with four fingers prominently pointed in their direction. We came across this climbing frame and Charlotte did a great job of climbing on it. She fell off a couple of times before she finally managed to make it to new heights - but then she found herself stuck. I had to guide her down as she was in a bit of a state and she made it safely to terra firma in the end. It was nice to see her challenged by it as so many of the playgrounds have been scaled back. I'll have to take her there again and see if she can get up higher next time - and more to the point, see if she can get back down again! The playground is located at N49.14.416 W 122.58.277 and is point no. 154 on the map at the bottom of home page.
