They worked on plans for one to build, but the fact that the ground is filled with large limestone rocks was offputting. When mom was here earlier in the fall, we went in to Sams and she saw the playscape on display there. That was it. That was what she had been imagining.
So, a couple of weeks ago we went to Sams to buy the playscape, but it turned out that they had sold them all but the display. So, we bought that one and had it delivered by a guy that builds them here in Austin. You would think that having one pre-built instead of a huge box with 98 (no joke) steps and a 16 hours minimum to assemble would be great, but it presented it's own challenges.
Here you can see the playscape in 4 pieces as it arrived at our house at 8am on Saturday morning.
We had to take down a section of fence to get it in to the back yard.
The delivery guy helped Vince and I get it in to the back yard, but we had to wait for more help to move it to its final place.
The kids were so excited. They wanted to play on it even before it was put together.
Here is Zach in the tunnel that goes across the top of the swings.
At 11 we had several friends come over to help carry it to the back of the yard and then level it. We had to pick it up from one side to the other as we got the ground leveled out beneath it.
Here it is after we had the major parts put together, but if you look at the slats on the front and bottom, you can see that whoever built it for the store was unfamiliar with a level. :-) They slapped it together pretty quickly with out a high regard for the instructions. So, we ended up taking a lot of it apart, including the top play house section, and putting it back together straight and level.
Here are Zach and I up in the play house.
Here are Zach and Isabella having a great time swinging.
Hoosier has discovered that he can see a lot more of the neighborhood from the top. We put up a baby gate to make sure that Zach won't fall off the end. There is a climbing wall that goes up to it that they'll be able to use when they are older.
Zach and Hoosier were hanging out. He really loves the slide... Zach that is, not Hoosier so much. You can see that we straighted up the slats in this picture. It is all pretty much plum now.
The kids have already had so much fun on the new playscape. Thanks to Nonny and Papasito SO MUCH for buying it and putting it together!
2 comments:
Looks like a lot of work but well worth it. I've learned nothing is ever as easy as it says. End results are always worth it. Have fun Isabella and Zachariah and of course parents.
Seems like a similar experience when our neighbor gave us their playground equipment last Spring. They had no kids and inherited it whent hey bought their house. We had to take the fence between our property down to get it into our yard too.
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