Reaney Park

Friday, May 12, 2006

Late Thursday night - or rather every early Friday morning at about 2:30 am on Finals week a group of us decide to trek to Reaney Park, behind the Sloan engineering building, to go play on the playground. No this is not some term for getting wasted or some other cr*p, we really wanted to just go chill on the playground. lol. So we make our way a group nearly 10 strong, down from Stephenson and across the empty street, and slowly toward Sloan in the middle of the street, about halfway there a cop parked on the side of the street tells us to get on the side walk, what the heii is he doing up at nearly 3 am? heh. Taking a right we go down toward the old steam plant, and across the gravel lot past storage tanks advertising flammable liquids. After we make our way down a small street we get there - and it was so f'ing dark we can't see very much. Taking to the swings its like being a kid again, lol. Some of the guys tried out the little spring mounted animals for the toddlers, let me put it this way it was not designed for adults, and after having to walk bow legged for a few seconds no one learned their lesson as everyone wants to find out how painful it really is. Suddenly we find out that there is in fact another, playground shrouded in the darkness on the other side - everyone runs for it . . . tire swing, huge slide, a fort-like playground - and a candy cane colored pole. As the mature adults we were the guys were all over the pole in no time - a fake pole routine, trying to climb it, and a balancing act on time as the chicks and the rest of us laugh and look on. We then discover the huge slide on a hill and now every one wants to go down, a few of us walk over to the fenced area and find a drained out swimming pool, the barb wire on the top makes it look like a POW camp or something. That Purple Dinosaur, I don't think i need to say anymore for those who were there. Kathleen decides we need to play some football, but it never really goes through, but we did get to see some drunk guy try to talk to us and stumbling off. After talk of bunnies, among other things we make our way back.




Reaney Park
Pearl & Gray Lane (1.64 acres)
Home of the National Lentil Festival and the Reaney Park Concert Series on summer evenings, this park contains outdoor pools, a gazebo, playground area, sand volleyball court, picnic tables, BBQ area and a horseshoe pit.