St Kilda Adventure Park

This is a massive playground for children of all ages. Oliver took off with Inger in hot pursuit. He darted up these stairs just about bowling over anyone in front of him. It was all Inger could do to stop him going down the slide on his own. Oliver had no trouble running up these stairs several times whereas Inger became very aware of how unfit he was in comparison!

At the opposite end of the playground was a towering fortress with drawbridges, dungeons and huge slides careering down the mountainside. Like a little mountain goat William ran up nimbly and before I could stop him the little chap had jumped onto a slide meant for much older children. I could see him looking quite shocked when he arrived at the bottom and mummy was nowhere to be seen!

Both boys had a ball on the old pirate ship complete with a jailhouse under the deck.

Because the park was so extensive and had such a lot of interesting equipment I soon lost Inger and Oliver. I realised that I had left my mobile phone back in the car and so had no way of contacting him. After William had finished playing we made our way back to the tram museum where I collected my phone from the car. I tried ringing Inger but to no avail. Little did I know that he had also left his phone in the car. Starting to get concerned after about an hour I decided to make our way back to the park on the tram again. About 1km along the line I noticed a tall figure with a little boy on his shoulders. As we got closer I could see that it was Inger. He had missed the tram and had set out to walk back to the museum. The conductor very kindly arranged an unscheduled stop for the tram so that Inger and Oliver could board. He was grateful because it was quite a warm day and Oliver was getting very restless.