Bison Park

I met a mom at Centennial Park the other day who told me there was an awesome park in The Meadows that had great stuff for little kids. The Meadows is a huge development on the west side of town--similar to Ladera Ranch, for those of you in Orange County--and we don't go there much because it takes about 10 minutes to get over there (or more, depending on where you're going) and the only thing they have that we don't is a movie theater, and you can guess just how often we go to movies.

So today I bought the girls to this park, and yes, that mom was right--it was awesome. Very new, and huge, with four large pieces of play equipment, a sand pit, a special section for ids 2-5 years old, and a lot of stuff that moved--like these wacky little items:





It didn't take much to get them going--PJ was flying; I had to slow hers down or it would go totally out of control.


This is actually a climbing structure--or, more accurately, a climbing bison.


PJ was happy because she cold actually get up onto everything--though there were still quite a few open areas that made me a little nervous. Granted, they're made for 2 year olds and she's still got 7 months to go.



Abby had a good time on both the little kid stuff and some of the big kid stuff--though the tube slide on the biggest of the big kid structures was scary fast. Poor girl came shooting out the bottom so quick she didn't have a chance to land on her feet.

The only downside to the park was the lack of shade--NONE of the equipment is covered in shade at all. There's a shaded picnic area, but who spends their time there!? Actually, there was one other negative--there were no benches at all next to the 2-5 year old section, and very few near the 5-12 section. Oh well. I'll bring a beach towel to sit on next time and park myself on the grass.