10June2008: Day 16: Mote Park

Well, today Makenna and mommy walked into Maidstone then from their took a taxi to Mote park, as Teri didn't want to get lost in trying to walk there herself. Plus from past experience she tends to walk into areas she's not supposed to, like along highways that run out of sidewalk. She did ask a bus driver if their are any buses that go to the park but he said it would still be a 2-3 minute walk. So since she'd have no idea where she was going once she was dropped off - Taxi it was. It was only 4 pounds.

The park was huge! It had a lot of open grass land and paths to walk/bike along and other areas she didn't see as she only really stayed around the playground equipment. They had about 3-4 areas of different playground equipment. Each area was different in that things got tougher (harder to climb, bigger, etc.,) so it was almost broken up into sections for different ages. Of course, kids could go anywhere they like. They also had a sandbox type area, but they steered clear of that as mommy didn't want to walk with a ton of sand in her shoes.

What's interesting is that all their playground areas are gated. They don't allow animals (dogs) in the gated areas to keep it clean, and the ground is all rubberized. Like recycled tires, so it's very spongy like.

Makenna, in this one play area, found a little seat that had a steering wheel and lever, as if shifting. She really enjoyed that and kept saying "home" as if she was driving us home. She wasn't much for the other areas really but liked walking around. We sat and ate the lunch that mommy brought, and then played some more. Then they went down to the river or lake, she's not sure, and Teri brought crackers assuming that there would be ducks there - which there was. Makenna laughed quite a bit when mommy threw crackers at the ducks and they all came scrambling to eat them. Unfortunately, there are a lot of geese also (like we don't see enough of that back in the states), and Makenna doesn't have the greatest of throws - yet - so the geese would practically come up and get very close to her hand or feet as that's where the crackers were, so mommy had to shew them away so they didn't bite at her hands.

Then they took a taxi back to a store called Lidl (which is like our Aldi's). Then from there, walked home. It might be the last day at a park this week as they say rainy weather is coming. It was also nice enough day for Teri to do one more load of laundry to hang out - Yeah! (Little things like that excite her if you had to go through what she do to get laundry done around here).