Place number five of our
Fifty Free Things to Do in Madison with Kids series is our neighbor’s
favorite playground, the Lakeview Park, a.k.a.
the Middleton Playground, a.k.a. to the pre-K’s the Purple Playground. We met Aurora’s friend there yesterday
to enjoy the parks eighty plus acres of fun things to do.
The main playground is super bright, clean and cool. Aurora went
bouncy bouncy on the bee,
back and forth on the swing,
dancing to music made by her friend,
up ladders,
down slides,
down stairs,
and round and round the structure until she settled at the
window.
During non-school hours older children, who are regrettably
rough/oblivious to itty bitties, swarm this playground. Fortunately, this park offers much more
then the main super shiny playground.
Aurora loves running about in the large playing fields and watching the
ducks in the large pond.
But the best part of the park is the hidden playground
tucked back in the corner. A giant
oak tree shades it during the hot summer, it hosts a fancy sitting
merry-go-round, and, most importantly, so few people use it that we always have
the run of the place.
