International Children's Park-Seattle

We happened to be driving through downtown today after an awesome lunch at The Jolly Roger Taproom with some friends. The Jolly Roger is awesome. Great beer, nice location, delicious food (we had the sliders) and I was surprised when the bill came that we spent under 40 bucks. Seemed like a pretty good value for all the deliciousness. We stayed off the freeway and meandered south through downtown Seattle, checking out the tall buildings, people, and various modes of transportation.

We decided to stop in the international district for a bit and headed to Daiso and Uwajimaya for some browsing. I think I could spend years in the Seattle's International District and not see it all. Our family would love to eat our way through it. If we hadn't already been full from lunch, there would have been some dim sum happening.

Our older girl is getting into Manga and she picked up her first Manga and Manga tips from a friendly shopper in the Uwajimaya bookstore (another place we could have spent a lot more time in.)

I changed the toddler's diaper in a nice open space on 5th and Weller. We also drank our Boba Tea from Oasis Tea Zone (real fruit juice in these bad boys) there. There were rocks to jump off, people to watch and birds to try to pet. FYI...this is a private space, not a public park.

We walked a few blocks to International Children's Park which, according to my husband, has been renovated. We all got excited when we saw it. It's a small park but has so much to do packed into it's small space:

• Covered picnic tables for a small group
• A rad dragon sculpture that can be climbed on
• A grassy area for lounging
• A shaded play structure with a fast metal slide, ropes and bars to climb, and a "secret" climbing wall
• A modified merry-go-round/spinning disc (which was the 12 year old's favorite thing)
• lots of nooks and crannies to explore

I think we could skip an amusement park and bring the kids here for some spinning action. They had their brains jumbled to contentment on the spinning disc.  Both kids took a lovely nap in the car on the way home.