Park Ratz: Edison Building and Saint Mary’s Park

Today Audrey and I crossed two more parks off the list today. Saint Mary’s Park playground and the Edison Building playground.

The progress so far. The stick pins are the parks we’ve been to.

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Here are some pictures from our trip.

Playing at the Edison Building playground

Tiny tiny park

Audrey watching Foofa and Brobee swinging next to her

The stuffed Gabba's wanted a ride too

On the way home!

Park Ratz

I’m starting a new series of blogs entitled “Park Ratz”. Audrey and I plan on visiting every single Rochester Public Playground. In total there is a list of 72 playgrounds on the Rochester Park and Rec website.

Here is the map I created on Google Maps that points out the location of each one. The pin points are parks we’ve visited and the droplet looking markers are the one’s we haven’t.

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This list of 72 isn’t a comprehensive list. It doesn’t include playgrounds at elementary schools or places like the Boys and Girls Club. We eventually want to visit all of those as well.

It’s amazing how many really nice “diamond in the rough” playgrounds out there. We’re going out to find all of them!

Here are the first two parks we visited. Northern Heights Park and Cassidy Park. Northern Heights sas really hard to find. There was a paved asphalt path between two houses. If you didn’t know it was there you’d miss it.  It has really nice beach style sand.

Cassidy park it hidden behind Century High School and is about 3 blocks down a large hill off Viola Road.  There were these spinners where you could hang and spin. I swear I was spinning 50 RPM. Enough to make me sick (not really).

Northern Heights East

At Cassidy Park (Behind Centruy High School)

Heath Robert Danz

I’ve FINALLY gotten around to going through the pictures from my camera.

Heath Robert Danz— Born 5/1/2009 at 10:20AM

Enjoy!

Photos from Quarry Hill 5/14/09

1,000 Miles

I broke the 1,000 mile mark today! The picture below was taken mid-ride at Kutzky Park.

Me just before breaking 1,000 Miles

Crawling Across the Room

Audrey getting around a lot easier the past couple of days. This morning she made it half way across the living room in less than a minute. She found some books in her play corner to keep her busy. She loves reading Pat the Bunny.

Audrey with Grandma Marge

These pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago when grandma and grandpa visited from Green Bay. Audrey is drinking from Grandma Marge’s glass. Feel better Mom! Hope this will cheer you up.

 

Audrey and Grandma Marge had so much fun on their visit!

Bike Route

This is a link to one of my favorite bike routes – Turnberry Turn-a-round.