Dennis the Menace park

Today I decided to shake things up and take the two younger kids to a really cool park not too far from us. It features a lot of really cool equipment and landscape that is a little more dangerous but a heck of a lot more fun. There are very steep hills made of concrete, dirt and grass spotted with ornamental grass and railings at the top and bottom for kids to climb all over, a hedge maze, and a drinking fountain in the shape of a lion's head. You have to stick your head into its open mouth to get a drink. Here are a few other features:

They have a full sized train engine that the kids can climb all over. I lost track of Tag for 30 seconds only to find him waving at me from the very top of this thing.
Pebbles also tried to get out on a ledge to be with him but got snatched up by her mean ol' mom. Oh, well.



Here's the crazy jungle gym which Pebbles also tried to climb but the rungs were just a little too far apart. Thank goodness!!



There's a super long rope bridge. The best thing to do is jog across it and make it bounce as much as possible. The only thing is, you can't stop in the middle or else you fall over.



It's right next to a lake with lots of paddle boats, a view of the ocean, and it's close to the airport so several times during the 2 hours we were there, all of the kids in the whole park stopped for a moment to watch the planes swing by pretty low.



Here's Little Miss in an aborted attempt to climb one of those steep concrete hills in sandals. She actually started to roll down one once and I was surprised at how controlled she was. She'd aim for the grass stuff and make the funniest faces when it got in her face.