Playground Expert

So here’s the little one proudly knowing where to look up a slide to see where she’s come from.

Checking out the various little playgrounds has become an area of expertise since I finished working at FPC. I guess when we arrive in Australia that I might have to get a real job, but right now, I’m hoping to find a job as a playground critic. Maybe with a 6-figure salary, but that could be negotiated with my agent (pictured).

Some thoughts to prove my newfound expertise:

1. Rungs on ladders must not be so loose as to spin. This is very dumb.


2. The best play structures have limited ways for small children to fall to their demise. Some are very open and mean that daddy has stalk his child at a distance of about 30 inches.


3. Things that are in the full exposure of the sun shouldn’t be made of metal.

I even have international experience to puff up my credentials. In Puerto Morelos, Mexico, there’s a slippery slide (which in Australia would be called a slippery dip…) which has a very bad bump about 80% of the way down. Maybe it’s just not designed fro 32 year olds – but I did have a cadre of teenage assistants who, seeing me in pain, thought they’d better try it for themselves, proving that yes, the slide is indeed faulty, and some teenagers might be as dumb as some people fear.

All our stuff is gone

37 boxes...
1,880 pounds...
130 cubic feet...

now traveling 10,000 miles...

for up to four months...

with most of the weight resting on two wooden crates constructed by me...

hmm