Walk in the Park

Lil' Tot and I woke up early one day to have breakfast outside. 

I had planned to bring her to the library that day and spend time reading. We were also due to return 3 books which we borrowed previously.

I was such a klutz as I overlooked the operation hours of the library, thinking it was open at 9am. 

It was only opened at 10am. 

As we parked the car at the community centre and glanced over at the library door only to find the "CLOSED" sign, I decided to bring lil' tot to the playground which was just outside the gates.

We had an hour to kill before the library opens so might as well get as much sun and air possible. 

We walked through a small entrance on the side. 

Was quite careful at it too as there were huge red ants crawling all over the floor.

I carried lil' tot safely to the other side as there was a small drain too and she can't walk over.

In the process, I caught a few ants which were climbing all over my shoes and pants.

Yikes! 

Quickly wiped them away and checked if any of them landed on lil' tot. 

Luckily there weren't.

Coast was clear so I let lil' tot play at the playground.

The playground (pictured above in the distance) is poorly maintained.

You may want to arm yourselves with wet wipes or check for any rubbish lying around and just make it as safe as possible for your child. 

I read on FB recently where an irresponsible person had taped a thumb tack onto a slide in order to harm any kids who happened to use the slide.

A mom found the thumb tack still intact as she was wiping down the slides to make it clean for her child.

Please do be careful, for your child's sake. 

Anyway, this playground is quite secure as it is situated right next to a guard post so there's always a security guard nearby.

I decided to bring lil' tot to walk around this huge piece of land since the playground wasn't so enticing for her. 

There were workout stations with illustrations on how to perform an exercise which our tot gladly tried out all. 

It's definitely a good work out.

We only walked ONE round along the path and both of us were already sweating. 

There were a lot of activities going on during our walk.

We saw squirrels running along the path, birds chirped in the trees, dried leaves on the ground which gave crunching sounds as we walked on them, we looked at flowers and heard students playing sports in the distance as there was a school just on the opposite side.

I also explained to our tot how important it was to keep the drains cleaned as she saw one man cleaning the drains within the community centre's vicinity.

We walked back to the car to collect the library books and headed to a bench at the entrance.

We cooled off a bit while waiting for the library to open its doors. 

As we walked into the library, I was grateful for the a/c they had switched on :D

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