Park Hopping! (Sort-of.)

I guess it doesn't really count as "Park Hopping" unless you go to lots of different parks in the same day/afternoon, right? Oh well.

The other day we played with some new friends at a new (to us) park in New Albany! That makes for a really good day!

Playing Pooh Sticks in the Tallahatchie River:

(Halle's stick won every. single. time.)

We've been to "Kidz World" several times in the past couple of days too:

This would've been the playground of our (T,K, S & I) dreams as kids. It. is. crazy. Swinging bridges with missing planks, hiding places galore, twisting paths to the same destination- I'm telling you, this place is awesome. Just not so much for little kids. I hate that it takes them about a heartbeat to be out of my sight. I'm also not too crazy about the big kids that barrel through (playing those awesome tag games!)

But it is very close to our house. And the kids adore it.

But today we finally found it. The best park ever. (For little kids.) It has most of the same stuff as Kidz World, but it's cleaner, has better sightlines,* and zero big kids (it's out in the middle of nowhere.)

AND it has a princess:

We really, really like it.

*When we were at the U of A we had a class where we basically picked apart the safety of playgrounds. It totally changed the way I see parks.

**Those polka dot shorts that Halle is wearing in the very first picture can also be seen in action HERE, HERE, and HERE. Hand-me-ups! Ha Ha!