le Tour de Playground
Saturday, June 30th 2012
Michelle and Hannah are off camping with Michelle's friend, Cathy and her son Jacob. That leaves the little dude and I for a Father/Son weekend. I was pretty geeked from the outset. When Michelle told me they would be gone for the weekend the first thought that popped into my head was "Let's go on a bike ride to a playground!"
When I mentioned this to a friend at church, he said, "Why don't you make a tour to several playgrounds?"
BRILLIANT!!!
After breakfast, we loaded up the Burley and took off. Our first stop was John Ball Park. They have a nice playset by the main parking area with this really cool climbing area (big kids only for this). David was kind enough to poop for me. Thanks David.
Once cleaned up, we were off to the Kent Trails with the plan being to stop at Millennium Park. What I hadn't considered was how many playgrounds we were going to pass on this whole trip (eight total). We ended up stopping in Johnson Park and playing there. While there, we had a snack of grapes and water. Oh, and David pooped again. Thanks David.
We then toured through the Millennium Park trails and headed up Maynard to the Standale Trail. As the trail crosses Sunset Hills, there is a ball field and a playground. This was our third stop. I have always liked this playset because it has some really interesting elements. David decided not to poop at this playground. Thanks David.
From there, we continued on the Standale trail, hopped on Leonard and went to the West Side Christian playground. Always a hit. Once we were there, I realized how late it was getting, so we had a snack of cereal bars, crackers and milk (water for me, actually).
From there, it was a short jaunt home. A little play time, a little lunch and few books = nap time for buddy boy. How can you beat that.
In the end, we went 21.4 miles and our time was almost evenly split between bike time and play time. I would have to call this a win/win for the both of us.
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