Playgrounds

Somewhere along the trip to Indonesia, I started noticing playground equipment. This is a pretty good example of what I saw around. Talk about a blast from the past. Generally speaking the equipment I used as a child didn’t have much paint, but it was that same kind of metal tubes.

About the time my kids were the right age to play on it, all the equipment around me had been replaced with plastic. I’m not sure if it was considered safer, cheaper, or what – but I found the same stuff all across the nation.

Lately I’ve been seeing wooden stuff cropping up here and there, mixed in with all the plastic. Considering slivers, I don’t think it’ll take over.

In Mongolia it was mostly old tires piled up in various ways plus the occasional swing set. There I was more surprised that they had any at all when they didn’t have plumbing.

I guess kids need the same thrills world over.