A playground to satisfy T

Every day T wants to go to a playground.  Most days he does go, and afterwards  immediately asks me to take him to another one. When we are on trains he asks, "Are we going to a playground?" or "Why aren't we at a playground?" So I figured that since we had to go as far east as possible to avoid rain, today would be a good day to bring him to Madrisaland at Klosters. Klosters is where the British royal family is known to go skiing. Our trip there did nothing to weaken my theory of resort demographics.  There were lots of English people there, including one incredibly friendly family and their beautiful dog Bob.

Another playground with a view.

Madrisaland has slides, swings, slack lines, zip lines, climbing walls, climbing nets, a petting zoo, a bouncy castle, sling shots, playhouses, etc. We got there around 11 a.m. and stayed for hours until it started to rain. There was a big picnic firepit, too.  We are always forgetting about the firepits.  Maybe next time.

The slide has no attendant, no warnings, and no instructions other than a picture telling you to get on a mat.

I guess there's really not that much to explain.

The main attraction for R was the "slide of death." I went on it and wasn't a huge fan.  The time spent in the tube seems very long when you are free-falling through air rather than actually sliding.  Then you hit the bottom of the slide just long enough to be directed out. The next thing you know, you've slammed into a pillow made of garbage bag material and are rolling down into the dirt.  You ride down on a felt mat with an envelope at the end for your feet.  So when you land you aren't free. It's like you're stuck in a bag.  I felt like a potato being harvested and packaged. I'm very glad I did it, though. It would have been awful to wonder.  And it is possible I just had a bad ride, since R and E liked it enough to go on several times.


T impressed us by climbing up the net tube all the way to the top.

S climbed to the top of the net wall and did a zipline, too.

L enjoyed the other slides, which are much longer than they appear in this picture.  One of them tunnels underground for a bit and ends up near the slide of death pillow. L tried the trampoline, too.

 

She preferred the bouncy castle.