A different kind of playground...

We live about 5 minutes walk from the Mc Carren park playground in Williamsburg where I spent countless hours with Ivy until we left a few weeks ago.  Now she is experiencing what I had as a child growing up in the Caribbean where nature is our playground and that is such a treat. 

Climbing trees have become a daily activity

We even found a swing on our beach 

The never ending supply of creeping, crawling and flying insects, birds and lizards keep her entertained. She used to freak out back in Brooklyn if a little house fly got into our apartment, now she does not even comment.  Today we visited a turtle sanctuary where you can get really close to the gentle creatures. The old guy who runs the place also has a few chickens nearby so when I asked if he had eggs for sale his eyes lit up as he proudly announced that he sells "free range eggs" for 10 EC per dozen.  When he brought them to us they were all different colours and Ivy exclaimed that she wanted the blue-ish colored one tomorrow for breakfast!