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Backseat driver

Our three year old daughter has become a backstreet driver.

No, seriously.

We went splash padding the other day around the New Edinburgh area.

The first splash pad was Bordeleau Park beside the Chinese embassy. They had this cool red dumping bucket which was translucent so you could watch it fill up before it dumped water on you.

Our daughter, however, was more interested in running around the park. The splash pad gently slopes down and then eventually meanders into the river. Our little explorer had fun running around on the rocks… until she scraped her knee. read more

Four bandaids and a splash park

We had to drop off our car at the dealership, so we thought we’d take some time and do some splashpadding.

The splash pad at Glen Park was better than what we were expecting. We thought it would be one of those old school wooden post splash pads.

Instead, it had a giant leaf and a tall flower post to sprinkle water down. Not bad, not bad at all.

  • The water park is pretty close to the adjacent basketball court, although there are blue posts to visually separate the two.
  • There is a small play structure beside the splash pad. (There’s an even better play structure nearby but it belongs to the elementary school.)
  • There are four ground sprinklers beside the leaf and flower post

We took a moment to splash around at Glen Park. Daddy made the mistake of trying to run through the sprinklers holding hands with an uncertain three-year old.  We only needed four Dora band-aids for our knees and one big squishy hug afterwards before we could try to run through the sprinklers again… this time with Daddy carrying the little monkey. read more

Heatherington Park Splash Pad

It was a cold and soggy this morning when we checked out the splash pad at Heatherington Park.

Too cold to play in, we just ran through the blue archway and had some grapes under the gazebo.

All in all, the splash pad at Heatherington Park ain’t bad. Here’s what it has:

  • A tower with 3 dumping buckets
  • 3 ground water fountains
  • 1 ground water jet that sprays pretty high
  • 1 blue archway that creates a wall of mist to run through.
  • The start button is on the red post.
  • There is a blue gazebo with a picnic table beside the splash pad.
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    Barrington Park Splash Pad

    A few weekends ago, we checked out the splash pad at Barrington Park. There’s nothing like playing around a water park on a hot summer night.

    There’s no gazebo, so it probably gets pretty hot out here in the middle of summer, but, there is a play structure hidden behind some trees, so you can still have a picnic in some shade. There’s also a library across the field.

    Here’s what they have at the Barrington Park splash pad:

    • Two water guns: one is a blue water cannon, and the other is a yellow elephant.
    • A red fire hydrant with 4 water spouts around the side. There is a black dome at the top of this red post to turn everything on.
    • Three ground sprinklers. One of the ground sprinklers shoots up pretty high.

    We had a lot of fun snacking on watermelon slices beside the water park and shooting the blue cannon. read more

    Big or small, we do them all

    There are some splash pads that aren’t worth writing home about.

    Montgomery Memorial Park is one of them.

    When Mommy heard that comment, she promptly commented, “big or small, we do them all.” So, here’s the review.

    There is a splash pad at Montgomery Memorial Park beside the Old Town Hall Community Centre in downtown Ottawa.

    It has one blue post that squirts out water on all four sides.

    The end.

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    Ottawa Splash Pads are open!

    Let the summer of splash padding begin (again)!

    Last summer, our little family tried to visit all of the splash pads in Ottawa. There are over 90 splash pads in the city and we managed to hit 32 of them.

    Some of our all-time favourite splash pads include Brewer Park, South Nepean Park, and Cardinal Creek Valley.

    Now that summer vacation is here, our little girl is all excited. Ottawa splash pads have been open since the May long weekend. (The water was turned on May 19, 2013.) It’s been a rainy spring and summer so far, but that’s okay. We still have fun! read more