We were actually at this park for a star party. However, we got no pictures of the star party, but lots of pictures of the park! We brought Diary Queen to the park and then played while waiting for it to get dark. Once it got dark, there were about 5 telescopes that were set up. They were BIG telescopes and we could see the moon, jupiter, and saturn. It was a little bit difficult explaining to Ryan what we were seeing, why it was so small and why it didn't look like what he sees in the books. You could see the craters on the moon, but it was only a sliver of moon that night and since it was such a small crescent it took Ryan a while to figure it all out. Jupiter looked like a ball as did Saturn, but you could see two of it's rings.
This park is called Hope Park and had actually just opened that morning. Hope Park is a park where children of all abilities can play together. It is meant for typically developing children to be able to play along side kids who are in wheel chairs and use walkers and have other disabilities. The land was donated by the city, the money was raised by a group of parents and then the park was built during a week long community build. It is an amazing park.
There is all of this plus so much more you can't see in this picture and the only place Ryan wanted to play was the sandbox!
After awhile he finally did decide to go check out the rest of the park and he loved it. The pictures aren't great because apparently I am not a good photographer of moving objects.
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| Jump walk |
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| Walking the tight rope |
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| You slide along on your back using the metal bars to move yourself along. |
Musical Instrument!
Monkey Bars he could reach himself -- he was so excited!
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| Tunnel slide |
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| Crawl spaces |
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| Ball Race |
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| Spider web |
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| You stand on this and use your hands to rotate your self around. Like a stand-up sit and spin. |
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| Swing you can lay down on! Ryan wasn't too sure about that! |
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| See Saw |
