Clark Creek Park

We have a park near our house, but it's not the best park in the world. The equipment is the old-school metal stuff, there's not much of it that's fun for someone as young as Cael or Finn, it's pretty small, and the trees - the huge, gorgeous trees - aren't the ideal setting when you're looking for sunshine.

Also, our park has some construction going on right through the center of it, so it's pretty cordoned off at the moment.

So when the sun broke out today, we decided we needed to go to a better park. But which park is that? Only one way to find out.

And this is how our park sampling program began.

Park one: Clark Creek Park.

This one has the sunshine element nailed (except during the hailstorm, of course). It's also got tons of grass to run in and has big, gorgeous trees on the perimeter so you can appreciate them from afar.

It also has a very large basketball/tennis court which would be more fun if they were a little older (and we had brought a ball).

The play structure was pretty great for Cael, but not at all for Finn. Mostly because it is designed with only one set of stairs and half the toys are on the other side of a tunnel. So in order for me to take Finn over to the big slides, I either had to crawl through the (muddy) tunnel on my hands and knees (with him in arms?) or climb up the climbing chain.

It did have a lot of slides, which Cael really appreciated while Finn remained pretty much grounded.

Chain bridge is always a hit. Even more so when there's an Andy on it, of course!

Finn kept busy with stimulating conversation.

Overall, I'd say that Cael enjoyed it but Finn wasn't a huge fan. We'll continue our search!