It was a hot summer day in California, I was five years old and I quickly climbed to the top of the metal slide. I was happily going down it when I came to squealing stop, halfway down. Some kid had peed on the hot slide and it got me just wet enough to halt my progress in between top and bottom. Pretty disturbing, which is why I still remember it so clearly.
Parks were pretty basic when I was a kid: finger pinching swings, tall metal slides, bone jarring teeter totters and if you were lucky a merry-go-round which are now extinct sadly, I loved merry-go-rounds. You probably never see merry-go-rounds anymore because they could send you flying off at break neck speeds. You also don't see hot metal slides anymore either. Playgrounds really have come a long way since I was a kid especially in terms of safety.
Merry-Go-Round like when I was a kid
We went to a brand new park that has a large sun shade as most parks do now in Arizona. We Arizonans love our sun safety since the vast majority of days are sunny here.
Declan climbs on top of the tube.
Declan is big enough to do the monkey bars, Archy climbs faux rocks
Archer is King of the Mountain
Declan poses majestically
Quinton reflects on life
Archy spins Zany
Was there anything worse than having your teeter totter partner jump off without warning sending your side of the teeter totter slamming to the ground with a tooth loosening thump?
This teeter totter kept you from doing that but it was still pretty exciting just look at their faces below.
Quinton opposite of Archy and McCoy
Quinton raises up Archy and McCoy
Q enjoys some air
Who has the power now?
So high now McCoy's stoicism departs
THAT LOOKS PAINFUL FOR ARCHY.... (^_^)
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