Playtime!!!

Blurb My Brain:

Today Dad, Patrick, and I went on the hunt for a playground.  The area we are in has about 7 or 8 crappy little ones, (seriously, one had a 4 foot slide, a see saw and two rocking horses.) a couple ones with random stuff to climb on (I want to meet the designer who just put random spheres and cubes and cemented them to the ground of the playground and ask if he ever went to a playground), and then one fairly decent one.  The fairly decent one still was kinda crappy.  They took out the zipline (I know, right?!) and redid it with a bunch of random plastic and metal. . . things.  Seriously, look at some of the stuff on the playground:

 

On this one, the top part spins, and the bottom part is stationary.  Um. What are you supposed to do with this? Swing back and forth?

Ok this was actually fun.  It was kind of like a merry go round.  Except on a slant.  I rode on it with Patrick, and because of the momentum, I had to hold him so he didn't fall off, while making sure I myself  did not fall off.  But still. . the regular merry go round would have sufficed.

And then, there were random hills and valleys which obviously the only purpose was to provide entertainment when kids are running and they trip and fall.  Otherwise, why would you randomly stick two dips and a speed bump? (By the way, there were about 20 kids on this playground, and I saw three different kids wipe out on the SAME valley during a game of tag.)

Where are the cool old playgrounds? The hot slides, the rows of swings (this playground only had two), the hot rusty monkey bars? The merry go rounds that made it so you got a workout from pushing? What happened to the jungle gyms, where you could hang upside down on? (Does anyone remember the show "Recess?" 

Well, regardless, we still had fun.  Here's some videos of us playing.