Looong time

No excuse. Weather is getting nice. Summer is coming, and it is time to get outside and enjoy the playgrounds without snow in your boots.

Stay tuned as there are some changes to some playgrounds on the North Shore including:
Pierpont Park, Peabody
DiBiasse, Salem
Cove/Kimball-Haskell, Beverly
Endicott, Danvers

I'll be trying to get to some of them this weekend with the boys.
A cool water table set up at Harriet Bishop Playground at Harriet Island in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Hershey Park, PA

Okay, this isn't really an official playground, but this water park was just so outrageously insanely cool!

This is the water park that opened this year at Hershey Park, PA.

The structure must go up 10 stories and there are a couple of water slides that start from up there! Of course, we never did any of them because it was a 20-minute wait to go down it. . . lines were everywhere.

Anyway, it was really neat and water was spraying everywhere including a GIAGANTOUS bucket at the top of the structure that literally DUMPS hundreds of gallons of water on to the people below!!! There were hoses all over the structure where you could maliciously spray other water park goers with. . . it was an invitation to be mean and annoying. That was fun.

Noooooooo, ANOTHER PLAYGROUND!

Just when you think you have found all the playgrounds and you have almost finished the insides of the book, you go for a casual drive with your family and discover a playground not in your book. Doooooh!!!!! Is it even worth putting it in? My editor says "yes." She's such a perfectionist . . .

Playground #151, DiBiase Park in Salem..