I Love Slides

I have loved slides for as long as I can remember. There used to be a metal one (without sides) in our backyard when I was little. A well used metal slide (without sides) is still my favourite type but due to safety concerns, there are not many of them around anymore. The downside of these types of slides is that one can possibly burn his/her bottom on hot days. LOL. I also loved our blue pool slide but just like the metal slide, this has long disappeared.

During one of our walks to nowhere, I rediscovered this park that I sometimes used to take the English boys from the first family that I ever worked for all those years ago. I instantly noticed that the whole place looks wonderfully new; quite unlike what it used to be. It used to be pretty run down and not very well looked after by the council. They have done a pretty good job refitting the entire playground and it was given a new name as well.

Looking after only Bree today, I decided to take her on a little adventure in search of this little park. It is situated quite far away from her home but we went anyway. When I first saw the two wave slides side by side, I told Cameron how the girls would definitely enjoy racing down them together. Secretly, I was hoping to try it out for myself. LOL. (I have always declared that I am very young at heart.) Today turned out to be a fine day for such an outing. There was no one around when we got there. Bree was happy to run around and try the swings even though they are the same as the ones at the other parks we frequent and similar to the one at home. She has a habit of going on each swing seat at a park unless she is distracted by Stella and her playmate Lachlan. Only after a round on the two swings did we go over to explore the big fort. We did climb all the way up and race down the slides together. I think she was very amused that there was a slide for @#^*-@#^*. Bree is at a stage where she is constantly declaring to everyone around her what belongs to whom. Right after our first ride down the slides, she declared that the left one was hers and the right one was @#^*-@#^*’s. After a few rides, there was a change of ‘ownerships’. LOL. Before we left for home, a woman and her baby arrived. The mother was friendly. She introduced her new baby to Bree. She told me that she was glad to see people in this park because she had hardly seen anyone using it.

(I am recording a documentary on TV for Cameron. Even though I know the content of this historical event very well, I am somehow quite disturbed by what I am hearing. It is timely though to refresh my memories on this horrible period of 20th century history. Even though it takes time to forgive, such events should never be forgotten. It is saddening to see how the whole incident has been removed from a certain country’s text books.)