Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The French Park Nets Playground – End of an Era


If you haven’t gone and played in them yet. Go do it now because they are going away forever. I just got done talking with a French Park employee who told me the playground is being completely torn out and replaced. I have been worried about this for a while as I watched some of the ropes start to fray and the jimmy-rigging that the maintenance guys were doing to keep the nets alive. One time I talked with a maintenance guy as he told me that he didn’t expect the part to last another 5 years, and he was right. Here were are just a few months from removal.  It will be sad to see the playground go. Ever since I moved here it has always been a fun place to go and now with kids of my own I love to watch them run around and play spiderman games as they crawl through the nets.  The park says they will be putting a new playground in its place, and I’ve seen the new playgrounds, they’re nice… but not the same. I love the old fashioned style of the old playgrounds.

 

And on a personal note it is the end of another era, as I have just recently moved away from Plymouth.

 

It’s like they say: All good things must come to an end. So it is with bittersweetness I put a final posting up onto “Things to do in Plymouth MN”. A new job has caused our family to relocate to Phoenix, AZ. It has been a great run for me in Plymouth. Plymouth has been home base for me from 1996 to 2016. I have enjoyed creating this blog and sharing many of the things I find fun about the area. While each activity I posted up here has been something I loved I’ll leave you with my top 5, and I’ll leave this blog online for the benefit of those searching for fun in Plymouth.

 

Dan’s Top 5 Favorite Things to do in Plymouth:

  1. Wakeboarding
  2. Bike around Medicine Lake
  3. Playing football in the Dome
  4. Skateboard “the wall”
  5. Spending time at the parks