A Big Big Slide

My neighbor told us about a big slide in Burlingame and we were there. The Magic Mountain Playground and Picnic Area at Coyote Point Recreation Area was all that and so much more.

Don't get me wrong, the slide is big, very big. It is so big it is visible from the highway. We still managed to miss the playground, and had a lovely tour of the recreation area. The slide is at the top of an incline, and up a tall playscape tower.

Caleb and Xander squealed with joy when they saw it. The whines of "I have to go potty" were forgotten. By the way the restroom facilities are conveniently located next to the park, and both boys had a visit during the two hours at the park.

The slide has a sign that says six and over once you make the effort to get to the top of the tower (wouldn't it make more sense to put that sign at the bottom of the tower?).  I always evaluate the capabilities of my boys ... they were fine, so we decided to go for it. The slide itself is a long metal tube, and it is engineered in such away that you can't go too fast. For the preschoolers it was less scary, and for the bigger kids they figured out how to zoom down faster.

We hit traffic on Saturday late morning traveling to the park. There was an accident. We also got caught in raining fog, but when we hit Burlingame it was sunny and beautiful. Usually it is the other way round. The weather clears up as you head South.

The park had two giant sea serpents at the bottom of the incline. One in the small kid playground, and one in the big kid playground.

The swings in the big kid playground were refreshingly low. This meant that my wee lads (my oldest is about 42 inches, and my youngest is 40 inches tall) could put there feet down on the big kid swings. Usually you have to hoist them up. It also meant when Jonathan and I tested the weight capacity of the swing (by the way it is just fine) by holding the boys we had to swing with a steep body incline, otherwise our knees were too bent to get a good swing.

There were towers that looked like castles, and bridges and other wonderful play features so unique that I don't know their name. Like a circular wooden bouncy thing ... we simply called it the bouncy thing.

As I mentioned earlier the park is right on the inner Bay. We took the boys for a walk with our friends and their kids. It was low tide, and the kids liked playing along the rocks where the wind surfers enter. Afterward we grabbed lunch in downtown San Mateo about two miles away at one of our favorite taquerias, Pancho Villa.