If I remember my first five years correctly, and that's a big 'if', playgrounds consisted of crude swings, the occasional slippery dip and roundabouts - not the ones we drive cars around these days, but things that rotated on an axis and one stood on. How things have changed these days and Ella and Flynn are becoming masters of chains, climbing walls, tunnels, monkey bars (appropriate in the Chinese new year of the Monkey), twirling poles of descent, and a range of other apparatus. Ella and Flynn seem to show no fear and use the new form of playground much like Marines on an assault course. Have a look at them in action in some local - Mountain View - equipment in several of the well-endowed parks around here that have much more developed and imaginative equipment than our own back in OZ.
Slides are now mostly for going up and not down.
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| A corrugated 3-bagger slide |
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| Mummy looks on unconcernedly |
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| Flynn plays noughts and crosses, while, in the background, there's a board representing the solar system. |
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| A 'slide' that can only be climbed. Chuting down would be painful! |
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| Playing with dark glasses - the sun was so bright in Burlingame - and, below, driving a pretend train with Ella as a passenger. |
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| Look! No hands! |
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