Sunday, March 21, 2010

Sunday at the Rollerslide Park

We did the "roller slide park" today. What is a roller slide, you may be asking?

This is a roller slide. It is literally about 4 or 5 stories up at its highest point and is a "slide" made up of roller bars that kids use to slide down. I'd never seen one until I moved to Japan. It is all sorts of wrong. It looks dangerous; It's incredibly high; There's absolutely no supervision; & it's a lawsuit waiting to happen. You may be saying what kind of crazy parent am I for letting my son go on this thing. Well, it's fun. It's fun! & sometimes kids need a little bit of that.

A pic of the cherry trees that surround the slide. This was my very first time seeing cherries on a tree. I've lived a sheltered life, for sheezy. I had to photograph it. For posterity!

7 comments:

  1. Your son is just SO adorable! I imagine he had a blast on that slide, too. :)

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  3. WOW!! I have NEVER seen a Roller Slide! I love that thing and my kids would go crazy for it. Thanks for sharing.
    Pretty cherry tree.

    Beth

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  4. That looks so cool! I'm sure your son had a blast :)

    btw...just got the cherry blossom tumbler in the mail--It is gorgeous! Thank you so much!

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  5. It looks just like a water slide, without the hassle of all that water! Lots of fun! My Grandfather used to grow cherries, but I don't remember them being very good to eat.

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  6. Um, I kind of want to go on that roller slide myself. Also, I find that a lot of kids are more hardy than we think -- so they can definitely have fun on some of the more precarious "playground" equipment! Within reason, of course! And how cool is seeing those cherries in the tree?! I've never seen cherries growing either... or even apples. Now THAT'S sheltered.

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  7. It is the FUNNEST, ladies. Let me tell ya. But all those rollers... your butt is pretty sore by the time you reach the end!

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