DAY 5 (August 24th): Highland Park
This is the park from my childhood. My grandmother lived near this neighborhood, so more often than not we found ourselves playing at this park as little kids. The wooden structure in the above picture was brand new two decades ago and used to be the high light of the park. Unfortunately, nostalgia is about all that recommends this park...for parents at least.
I find one thing very humorous, though. Kids and parents have a whole different rating system for parks. Kids are happy with any park that has slides, swings, or climbing sets. It does not matter how clean or new they are. This park had all of these things and was definitely NOT clean or new. The boys had a blast.
The boys are getting a lot better at crossing the monkey bars. Pretty soon they won't need Daddy's help.
The climbing spiral is always a favorite spot for the boys, no matter what park we go to. If the park has a spiral the boys will spend at least five minutes climbing up and down it.
Gordy went down the Fireman's Pole for the first time all by himself. I missed the first one because it happened so unexpectedly, but he was more than happy to do it many more times for the camera.
AJ had lots of fun. Playing tag and hanging off of equipment that was finally tall enough for him to do so.
These three toys are actually about as old as, if not older than, I am. I have seen pictures of myself playing on these exact toys when I was about Gordy's age.
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