Park 2 - Wy'East Park

Up next in our adventuring was Wy'East Park.  Also not far from home, this park shares it's fields with Wy'East Middle School.  First off, the parking sucks.  You have to park on the street (which is a main road, lots of traffic) and then it's a short walk around the corner to the play area.  There is a sign reminding you to clean up after your pets, but no doggie bags, like most parks have available.

This is also an older, small playground consisting of 3 playstructures.

This is actually 2 structures, not connected... for the bigger kids.

And this is the structure for the little ones.  The posts are missing the balance beam that would be across them, normally.

Zoey didn't really enjoy either of the smaller structures, being my cautious child.  She would only play if Lily was with her and only went down the slide once.  She had much more fun picking dandelions in the grass.

We probably won't go to this park again, but at least we know why!

Park 1 - Bella Vista Park

We decided to start our challenge close to home.  Bella Vista Park is located just around the corner from our apartments.  We walked there once or twice last summer, but Zoey was really too young to play yet.

But not this year!  Sadly, my picture of the small play structure disappeared, but she loved it.

Lily enjoyed playing on the bigger structure as well...

But she moves to fast to be in pictures, usually.

This is a small park, with just the two play structures and a huge field of grass.  It's great because it's close to home, but could do with some updating as the wood is weathered and the girls were done playing quickly.

The Great Park Challenge - Vancouver Style

Inspired by my good friend, Reanna, in her quest to explore all the parks in Bend this spring/summer with her family, I decided we would do the same and visit all the parks in Vancouver by the time school starts again in September. Not only will this keep us on our toes, but we'll never get bored with going to the same old park.  Plus, what a great way to get to see parts of Vancouver we still haven't seen in the almost 10 months since we moved here!

So, here's the list we'll be following, in no particular order:

http://www.cityofvancouver.us/parksites?keys=&neighborhood=All&amenities=96

66 Parks in  22 weeks.  Wish us luck!