Anvil Park

I have driven past this park probably hundreds of times, but I've never actually taken my kids to play here before. I feel kinda bad for my prejudice now. It's a fun little park.I guess the fact that it's right by a fairly major road had me a little hesitant, but it does have a fence around it, so I didn't have any trouble keeping the kids out of the road.

I'm not sure what this thing was, but it had a lot of different things on it that lent itself to a lot of different imaginative play. At one moment it was a grocery store, and then a hair cutting place, and then a clock factory. It's amazing to see how quickly the imagination can jump from one thing to another.

This park did have a little pavilion and a picnic table so at least offered some shade, although I eventually opted to park myself up on the playground where there was also some good shade.

Any park that has these is always a hit. My kids hop across avoiding alligators or trying not to fall in lava. I love that this park had so many different things that brought out their imaginations.

Andrew calls this the bouncy bridge, and had lots of fun just running back and forth over it.

This toy was my favorite. There were three of them: a skateboard, a surfboard, and a wake board. I'm not sure why all of the pictures ended up on the skateboard, they did play on all of them. First they had fun trying to balance on the wobbly boards, then it eventually turned into a teeter-totter. I have to admit, I had to get up and do a little surfing of my own. It was fun!

 

This park also had swings although my kids didn't swing much on them, it was good to know we had that option, no baby swings though. The slides were pretty steep at this park, but there were so many other fun things to do, that the kids didn't even miss not going down the slides. I wish there were some grass, but for such a small park, I guess that's not really an option. I think we will definitely be back to this park more often.

Andrews Park

 

Today is Memorial Day, but since Daddy has to work, we're not really planning on doing anything for it. Instead we began our summer of parks. This was the perfect one to start with, not only because it comes first in the alphabet and was therefore at the top of the list, but also because it got my son Andrew excited about it. He is three and is beginning to recognize his name, so he was super excited to see his name on the sign... not that you can tell by the picture. 

I like that there are a lot of different things to climb on at this park, the boys had a lot of fun with that.

This little toy was a big hit. They turn the wheel which rotates a panel inside with a couple of balls. They had lots of fun bouncing the balls around, and trying to get the balls through the holes. 

 I think one of the worst parts of this park are how steep the slides are. Andrew went down the slides only once and refused to go again because it was "very scary." Deano went down a few times, but ended up hitting his head on the side as he went down and wasn't very happy about that.

 I also did not like that there is no shade at this park. There is no where to conveniently lie down a blanket for a baby to play on, or even to just get out of the sun. There are however, swings, which so few of the parks I've been to recently have, so that was nice.  This was Isaac's first time in a swing, and I don't think he ever really decided if he liked it or not.

A Summer of Parks!

I live in Green River Wyoming, and one of the things that I love most about this town is the number of great parks around. There are 29 parks in Green River, and I intend to take my boys to visit every one of them this summer, and I figured I might as well take pictures and write a bit about them while I'm at it. Some of these parks are just nature areas, which will be a bit different, but I'm excited to visit them too. Others are just a baseball field... I might have to break out the plastic t-ball set for my boys to play with. I've heard that there are also some great parks in Rock Springs, so I might have to go see some of them too. If anyone has any favorites in Rock Springs, let me know! Its going to be a great summer!