More livin'

We will go to any park or playground, anywhere, any place, anytime. What draws us in time and time again is a guarantee of a wide open space, possible play equipment and the knowledge that the use of our favorite voice the "outside voice" will always be permitted. This is an area where recreating a WWF scene with your brother or best mate or just met mate is welcome, where screaming is ok, where dirt is good, where quiet and clean are bad, this is our safe place.


So, after enjoying the fruits of 100 years of Australia at Centennial Park we decided we would be remiss by not checking out what 200 years could look like at Bicentennial Park and Blackwattle Bay Park on Glebe foreshore. The playground at Bicentennial Park is so great. It is fenced and has heaps of equipment that you don't see everywhere, like diggers, crazy bridges, roller slides, boats and some moving bench that seem to be very dangerous as kid after kid toppled off in a flourish. You can walk the foreshore forever. Eventually running into another playground with a relic from the 80's a merry go round. You won't see one of the jewels on an overly sanitized you have no grounds to sue me all the equipment here is plastic and perfect American playground This one looked like you needed a tetanus shot to jump on. And of course my kids could have gone all day, lucky for them I brought my port a tetanus kit so it was no problem. If you make it off the MGR without a trip to the ER then you can keep walking and enjoy some very special waterfront architecture and eventually the Blackwattle Cafe. This place was packed, I would think bookings would be essential, also essential, being with kids who were not as we call it, "past the point of no return." If you have to ask what the point of no return is, well, you have never been there and explaining this dark scary roller coaster place would be fruitless. If "the point of no return" peaks your interest then we are always looking for sitters. 


As a side note, 200 years was apparently really something to get excited about as there are more than 3 Bicentennial Parks in Greater Sydney. To be fair, once you see where their convict ancestors were left to "give it a go" making it at all is quite an accomplishment. 

If you were thinking he is thinking of all the ways he can say, "I love you," you don't have toddlers! 

I would buy ten of these and change the family room to a sandpit if they would love them as much as they did at the park.

Ahhh...his smile melts me!

Sydney is so full of beautiful spaces

The Harbor Bridge looks so little tucked under the Anzac at this angle. What a sight, a luxury yacht, The Anzac Bridge and the Harbor Bridge.

Even doggies can get in on the action at their own doggie beach

JOY!

You thought I was exaggerating about the tetanus thing, huh? Now your thinking where can I get  one of those port a tetanus kits?