We stumbled upon a fun playground in North East last night.

We had taken the girls for a walk at the Eaton Reservoir in North East, stopped in town to pick up a quick dinner from Subway and were going to eat in Gibson Park when we decided to see if there was a nearby playground where the kids could play after we ate.

My husband remembered an old wooden park on the N.E. school campus, so we cruised over & were surprised to find a modern, composite park. It was fairly large too -- with stuff for kids of every ability. There are even full body swings that I assume are for physcially-challenged children.

We took at seat at the blue composite plastic picnic table and made a fruitless effort to make the kids sit and eat. But, they couldn't contain their excitement and quickly bolted to go explore the playground equipment.

There were all kinds of slides -- including one that was a series of rollers. Sliding down that was a whole new experience! There was a "rock wall," several "bumpy" slides and tons of swings. I think we had as much fun as the kids.

What the park didn't have was any other children. Which, is not suprising. Whenever I take the kids to any park -- at any time of day -- we are frequently the only people there. There were a few people there when we go there, but they left shortly after and we had the entire park to ourselves (it was about 7:15 or so) -- which was nice and yet, sort of disheartening because more kids need to be running around on playgrounds instead of sitting in front of television and computer screens.