Park Fun

During the summer months you'll often find our club members meeting up at local parks for a fun play date, group activity or playgroup. We are very fortunate that our communities offer so many wonderful parks filled with amazing playgrounds, streams, ponds and trails.

We have such a great network in the club to share on great parks, ideas for outings and upcoming events - it keeps the club interesting and full of new ideas! As well, we are very fortunate that the members within our club plan so many great activities on our monthly calendar, are often free in nature and include so many wonderful friends!!! Maybe we'll soon see you at the next park play day?

Kids Bowling

This week a nice group met up at Daffodil Bowl for bowling with the kiddos. They had a really good time bowling and we all had a nice time visiting. The best part is that the kids all bowled for really cheap through the kidsbowlfree.com program. The shoe rental is three dollars a kid, which make for a really neat day out!!!

A Club Favorite

A favorite park of many members in our club is Wildwood Park in Puyallup. This park is beautiful, full of trees and vegetation that allows one to feel removed from the city that is just outside the gate. If the weather is really warm, this is a wonderful place to enjoy the shade of the trees and the shallow stream allows for safe water play for kids of all ages!

The park also features two great toy structures for children of all ages, a covered picnic table area and benches. A great gathering spot for moms to visit while easily watching the kids at play. Time can get away from you here, because there is nothing more magical than watching kids in the natural environment finding so much to explore and enjoy!!!

Nisqually Delta Nature Walk

This was a well attended event, even though it is a bit out of town -- we were all thrilled to have so many friends join us for this great activity. The Nisqually Delta is located just off of highway I-5 south of Dupont. It is an excellent park that one could spend all day at exploring, walking, finding animals and studying birds.

We did the mile loop boardwalk trail to keep it stroller friendly. Part way through we stopped at a river overlook to have our lunch together. The kids enjoyed the river view and the break in the shade as it was a sunny day!

We saw many birds that day, even through the squeals and pitter patter of the children's feet on the boardwalk. Hard to be quiet as a larger group. A big high light for the kids were all the bird nests located near the beginning nature building. We spotted several nest with little babies peeking back at us. For some of us, we also were fortunate to see a deer and raccoon. This would be a great park to experience again as an activity at different times of the year!

Woodland Park Zoo

We recently enjoyed a great group visit to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. The sun was shining and the company was wonderful! All the kiddos had a wonderful time as we explored the zoo, finding great animals and visiting a long the way. Part way through we found a great grassy area in the shade to enjoy a picnic lunch while the kids had fun running about playing.

This is a great zoo as it has all the 'classic' zoo animals children see in the story books - giraffes, hippopotamus, zebras, elephants, lions, tigers and bears. They also have little stations throughout where one can have an up close experience with the animals and touch them. On this day our kids all touched a tarantula... pretty cool!!!