We just won the Park Jackpot!

Finding a good park that is age appropriate is a big win for parents. I have two little kids (2yr & almost 1 years) and instead of pub hopping these days I go park hopping. We go from one to the other having a play and on the search for our favourite go-to park, and I must say there are many that my kids are too little for. Some have woodchip that spikes feet, others have sand that gets eaten and all over everything, some climbing parks that are too big and out of reach, some with shade and then no shade, or some that are awesome yet sand-flies or mossies bites are a given. Now, with all of that said I think in Gladstone we are super lucky and spoilt for choice. We have an abundance of parks to take our kids too. They are free, well maintained and wonderful. However, we have turned a new page of awesomeness when it comes to parks with the latest, the redeveloped, Alf Larson/Lions Park, Miriam Vale.

I experienced it for the first time the other day, at ‘almost’ the end of a long drive from Brisbane back to Gladstone on the weekend, the kids were well and truly in need of getting out of car seats and into the wild. We pulled into Miriam Vale and WOW-WEE I was so excited (maybe even more than the kids). I didn’t run and push them out of the way so I got a turn first, but it was close to that kind of stage ‘Mum behaviour’. I was elbow to elbow with the kids looking at all the new things to play with.