Coyote Point
I had the kids to myself all day on Monday (on account of the holiday), so we met up with some friends of mine who live up on the peninsula, and their two kids. We ended up going over to Coyote Point, and it was a lot of fun. There is a huge play area with a very large slide and a dragon theme and many smaller slides and swings and assorted play equipment stuff. We liked it a lot. We also walked over to the bay for a while, and threw rocks into the water. The rocks aren’t very flat, so not so good for teaching the kids to skip stones, but just throwing rocks is good fun in its own right. You can also watch the planes coming in for a landing at SFO, and the park is off to the side of the flight path enough that they weren’t too loud. It was only a 20 minute drive from Mountain View, and well worth the trip.
In theory admission is $5, but there wasn’t anyone there to collect the money, and no other way to pay, so it was free on Monday anyway. It was really warm there yesterday, but it is right on the bay so I bet it is windy and possibly foggy up there pretty often.
The park is right at the Peninsula Ave exit off 101, but that exit is all torn up with construction right now. You have to get off at the exit before it, Dore Ave, and use the frontage road. There are signs saying as much, and it isn’t hard to figure out.
I forgot to bring a camera, but I borrowed my son’s and took a quick picture of the playground with him and his sister standing there looking hungry. I should have taken a picture before everybody needed to go get lunch, now!
Update: I seem to have inserted the picture at full size, and now I can’t get it to resize. If you open the picture in its own tab you can see the whole thing, but otherwise you are stuck with just seeing the left edge, which isn’t really all that great. I’ll work on that.
