Diggerland

Friday night we left for our first big family road trip (with Uncle Jon!) en route to Diggerland in West Berlin, NJ. We stayed in a hotel Friday night and got to Diggerland just after it opened. We heard about it from Sarah M and have been thinking about planning a trip ever since. It's an awesome, small park with real, live, working construction equipment that you and yours can operate yourselves. Many of the rides have height requirements but most allow for a shorter kid to ride on the lap of a grownup. I walked around with Reed most of the day while Jon and Jeff rode excavators, mini-dumpers, skid steers, and mini-excavators. Jeff and Jon also got to do the ropes course, and Jeff had a go at the rock climbing wall. At the end of the day I had some time with Theo to ride the train a couple times, ride the tractor wagon, and try out the mini-excavators. The park is beautiful and clean and well-run and safe and it was an absolutely spectacular day.

Jeff in red on the climbing wall

 Jeff and Beck on the skid steer

 Jon and Theo on the skid steers

The biggest boys on the ropes course

 Watching the construction vehicle stunt show