Benji’s Slide

I love this slide. All I can think about as I slip quickly through its cylinder is how mature it makes me feel. The folks wouldn’t even let Davey and me play on this equipment the first time we visited this park. Instead, we had to play on the preschool structure. That’s a fine unit, but way to elementary for my skills. I wanted to climb on the big boy unit designed for kids 5 to 12 years old. They let me try it on our next visit, and I immediately climbed up into the lower clubhouse, then up a ladder to the upper clubhouse. Daddy helped me the first time while Mommy worried. Once I slid down the two-story slide that first time I owned it. It was mine. And from then on, I wanted to do it again and again, all by myself.