Following Ella's birthday party we all headed off to a local theme park - not Disneyland but Gilroy Gardens. For young kids this was a perfect choice - lots of rides tailored to their age amidst a beautiful garden setting. This first post shows the kinds of rides available for them as well as some of the prominent themes.
The entrance walk was imposing.
And we were greeted at the end by garlic. Gilroy prides itself as the garlic capital of the US, and, of course, there were rides in little cars shaped like garlic.
Ella and Flynn gave that a miss and headed straight to the automobiles. Here's Ella driving an ancient Chevrolet and Flynn at the wheel of another antique vehicle.
Then we were gently propelled downstream on a plastic raft like the one in the background here
And this passed pedalos dressed up as swans and ducks.
There was, to Flynn's delight a period piece locomotive hauling passengers around the outside of the gardens and we all went for a ride.
Then Ella rotated around a rotten apple core aboard a worm, While Emily and I enjoyed a wild ride on an extremely fast kind of roundabout.
Getting near lunch-time, Ella fancied a ride in an artichoke, another prominent local crop. That was before she found a genuine old Wurlitzer merry-go-round and here you see her poised elegantly on a nice horse.
The train once again with a lovely background of waterfalls, and here we are riding it.
Then we took off for the water park, for which the weather was perfect.
Then it was ice-cream time and back to the car for the journey home.
AS
The entrance walk was imposing.
And we were greeted at the end by garlic. Gilroy prides itself as the garlic capital of the US, and, of course, there were rides in little cars shaped like garlic.
Ella and Flynn gave that a miss and headed straight to the automobiles. Here's Ella driving an ancient Chevrolet and Flynn at the wheel of another antique vehicle.
Then we were gently propelled downstream on a plastic raft like the one in the background here
And this passed pedalos dressed up as swans and ducks.
There was, to Flynn's delight a period piece locomotive hauling passengers around the outside of the gardens and we all went for a ride.
Then Ella rotated around a rotten apple core aboard a worm, While Emily and I enjoyed a wild ride on an extremely fast kind of roundabout.
Getting near lunch-time, Ella fancied a ride in an artichoke, another prominent local crop. That was before she found a genuine old Wurlitzer merry-go-round and here you see her poised elegantly on a nice horse.
The train once again with a lovely background of waterfalls, and here we are riding it.
Then we took off for the water park, for which the weather was perfect.
Then it was ice-cream time and back to the car for the journey home.
AS
1 comment:
Jenson and I would have loved the train ride as it looked far superior to the one in Poole Park! Richard.
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