We had family pictures taken a couple weeks ago and drove past Liberty Park on the way home. The kids saw a playground and begged to go, but we had a lot going on that day so I promised them on another day. That other day was yesterday. I had to go back downtown to view the pictures and my awesome, hard working husband was wearing himself out with projects around the house (cleaning the garage out, building shelves in our storage room, searching for and fixing all the broken pipes in the sprinkling system, etc.) during his "vacation" (time off from corporate work to work around the house instead). I took the kids with me to keep them out of Brodie's way. Since it was a nice day I packed some towels and a change of clothes for the kids and told them we could stop by Liberty Park on the way home from viewing pictures.
By the time we got to the park it was a little breezy, but that didn't stop the kids. We went to the playgrounds and waterpad on the North side of the park, right by the entrance/exit. The kids of course noticed the waterpad, but were hesitant at first. They wanted to play on the South playground that had some cool musical playthings as well as a playground.
Then Tessa took off toward the waterpad while Spencer stood by me. She made it through the hoops before Spencer decided to join her. As soon as he stepped onto the wet ground, the water turned off. He was quite disappointed. I put Clara down to crawl around and get her shorts wet while we waited for the water to turn back on. After about 10 minutes we headed towards the swings. After the kids were done with those, we headed over to the North playground.
The kids had so much fun climbing and sliding around. They also loved the unique teeter totter.
Finally the water works came back on so we headed back to the waterpad. The kids had an absolute blast with their first outdoor water play of the season. I couldn't believe that just a couple years ago in Boston Tessa absolutely refused to go near the water and Spencer took a bit of warming up and watching his cousin before he cautiously played at the splashpad there. They were fearless here! And they got drenched. Spencer and another girl ran into each other and Spencer ended up with a bloody nose. And of course Tessa had to go potty, forcing a break to walk soaking wet in the breeze to the restrooms. After we'd been at the park for about an hour and a half the kids reluctantly shivered in their towels as we walked back to the van. I had Spencer change into dry clothes in the back before putting the stroller in while Tessa changed into dry clothes by her carseat. Clara and Tessa both fell asleep in the van on the drive home.
Maybe next time we'll make it over the Seven Canyons part or the ducks. We'll see.
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