Day at the zoo's playground (Sunday, Nov. 1)

Since it was a nice day and there's nothing else open on Sunday we decided to go to the zoo again. But this time one of our main goals was to capture the complete insanity of its playground. It is (I think) the cream of the crop when it comes to dangerous playgrounds and as such will probably be the last in our series while we're here! (I don't see us getting to a lot more playgrounds now that it has gotten colder and we'll have a tiny baby to bring soon too! But you never know, we may be inspired!)

So let's start with an overview. Here's a picture of the park in general. It was a madhouse. Like I said, nothing else to do on Sunday. Also, as an interesting sidenote, there appears to be a competition among German parents to see who can get their child to sweat to death first. This isn't very obvious from the following pictures, but let's just say that on this day it was over 50 degrees and I saw a child in a snow suit. I'm afraid we won't be here long enough to find out what these kids wear when it's actually cold out!





Okay, now for a better look at that slide, or pipe, or tower of terror, call it what you want. Don't stand at the bottom of this one folks, the kids come out of there like bullets! It's unbelievable.



And this is how you get to the top of the slide. It's just like a mess of sticks in that tower!


And next comes the battering ram. Sadly, this piece of "equipment" does not have 20 children on it like the first time we were there, that makes it look especially dangerous. I especially like when kids stand on the sides of it and get knocked to the ground. This day I only managed to capture these two boys practically airborne.

Despite the danger, we did let Gianna have fun at this playground! (This is not the crazy slide, but rather a much smaller, tamer one!) And Doug wishes he was 8 again so he could enjoy it more. In a word, he thinks it's "awesome."