Park FAIL

On Saturday we tried to go to a park we've been meaning to visit that has a big roller slide. We knew where it was but had a really hard time finding out how to get IN to the park. We drove past it four times and couldn't figure it out. It's on a busy divided highway type street so you have to get off at just the right exit otherwise you have to do a freeway turn around to go back past. There was a lot of traffic so it took forever to turn around. It was a huge pain. After the fifth pass we finally figured out how to get in. Unfortunately we still missed the turn that time and we saw that the big roller slide was closed. So we just decided to go to a different park and try that one another day. On the way home we passed a park we'd never been to and decided to check it out. Everyone got hurt, except Scott, so it wasn't the greatest park for us, but we still had some fun.

They had a little roller slide. Not as big as the other park, but maybe that's for the best.
The kids both loved this slide and didn't get hurt on it. Hooray!

Matthew fell off a zip line and hit his head. He had gone on zip lines like that before, so I thought it would be ok, but he got nervous in the middle and let go. Poor Matthew. I felt really bad.
Anna went down a fast cement slide and got scared, but not hurt. Then she ran into a metal pole and bonked her head.
I skinned both knees taking Anna down the fast cement slide.
Here's Anna waiting at the top of the cement slide. She was nervous about going down, and rightly so. It was very fast.

Scott caught her at the bottom, so she didn't get hurt, but she was pretty scared. :(
I tried to go on it with her the next time and went flying off the bottom of the slide, scraping my knees. Ouch.

A little Japanese girl came and gave me this four leaf clover. Maybe she felt bad for me.

After too many bonks we just let the kids run around. Matthew loved it.

And Anna wanted to do just what Matthew did, which somehow resulted in her running into a pole.

This pole.
We decided to go home soon after that. Too much park excitement for one day. Maybe next time.