Construction

Above: A new playground at our local park.

Last Friday as we walked through our neighborhood park, which we walk through at least twice a day, and we saw what looked to be new construction. Now in a city filled with broken playgrounds and dirty parks, this was quite a site. We kept a close eye on the construction, thinking at any moment it might be abandoned, but to our surprise a whole new playground rose up in only 4 days! And that is using only hammers and nails, a circular saw, and shovels. Amazing.

Today the mayor of San Jose came to cut the yellow tape, the band played, and the kids flooded in. There must have been 20 kids flocking to this new playground with slides, monkey bars, swings, cargo nets, and see-saws. Lucy in particular loved the ramps and slides.

We’re amazed at how fast it went up, and we’re a little leery as to how long it will last due to constant wear and tear, but for now Lucy has a great new destination and mommy has a perfect place to kill 45 minutes. Thank you government of San Jose.