The Wacky New Playground in Playa Vista

Last year, we got wind that a new playground would be opening in our neighborhood of Playa Vista. With the recent baby boom in the community and only one toddler park to go around, all of us were very excited to check the new place out.
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Last weekend, we headed out with our friends Marco, Sheila, and Kayla to see what there was to see. What we found was... interesting.
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Set among the partially-finished office buildings and parking structures was a rather avant-garde take on the humble playground. When I saw the play structures, the first thing that jumped to mind was body jewelry. There was a giant nose stud:

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A humongous spiral belly button ring:

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And a really big, um... Well, I'll let you decide what this looks like:

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I had a good titter over it. No pun intended.
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The first thing the kids gravitated to was a big concrete tunnel that ran through a rubbery hill. My description sounds bizarre, but there's really no other way to put it. Anyway, Benjamin started crawling through the tunnel, but halfway through got scared and refused to budge.
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We sent Kayla in on a rescue mission, but both of them got stuck.

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In the end, it was Marco the rescue!
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Next, all of the kids - both big and small - tried out the teeter-totter, which resembled a giant, misshapen binder clip.

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Finally, there was this odd metal... thingamabob. It's hard to describe it. If you were to take a metal fork, blow it up to the size of a house, take off the tines, and then embed them onto the side of a big green rubber hill, you'd get the picture. Regardless of what it was, we all had a great time climbing up and sliding down it.
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By this point it was getting chilly and we decided to head home. On the way to the cars, the dads and kids played an impromptu game of soccer on the pristine new field next to the playground.

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Maybe by the time the rest of Playa Vista is finished, our littlest one will be ready to play, too!
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