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Park Morning and Pool Afternoon in San Francisco

·San Francisco, California·#summer#bay area#family#kids#playground
A child in a striped shirt holds a steering wheel inside a red and black toy train at an outdoor playground.

Park morning and pool afternoon in San Francisco. The morning went to Mission Playground, off 19th and Linda in the Mission — nearly 100,000 square feet with a clubhouse and courts, and Mission Pool on the grounds, built in 1916, the only outdoor pool the city runs. The little one worked through all of it: the red play train marked M525, the bucket swing (which took some real pushing before the laughing started), the roller slide, and a climbing rock that needed a spotter at the bottom.

The afternoon was the opposite scale — the inflatable pool, ankle-deep water, and a berry popsicle held overhead like a trophy before it got eaten standing in the shallow end. It dripped down the cherry swimsuit the whole time and nobody minded.

A person stands next to a child swinging high on a blue playground swing over sand.A person pushes a child on a blue swing set in a sunny, sandy park surrounded by trees.A child sits on a blue roller slide in a playground with colorful structures and trees in the background.A man smiles at a child kneeling on a brown play structure in a sunny park.A young child in a pink cherry swimsuit holds a red popsicle next to a green inflatable pool.A child in a cherry-patterned swimsuit eats a red popsicle next to a green wading pool and a red frisbee.A young child in a cherry swimsuit eats a red popsicle while standing in a green inflatable pool outdoors.A young child in a cherry swimsuit holds a red popsicle while sitting next to a bright green inflatable pool.

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