Monday, August 1, 2011

Gilroy

South of San Jose, east of Santa Cruz not far of the 101 is Gilroy.  The garlic capital of the world and the location of the best young kids family park around.  Gilroy Gardens is perfectly themed for families with kids in the under 10 set.

The boys could ride just about all the attractions.  Colin could ride most things with a parent.  The lines were short and quick.  Everything is beautifully landscaped, clean, and well shaded.

First (and possibly most importantly) there is a train.
Gilroy Gardens



There are adorable little fire trucks that little boys can drive all by themselves (and we already have experience with this excitement).
Gilroy Gardens

There are rides that go round and round.
Gilroy Gardens

And boats that float through the flowers.
 Gilroy Gardens


*Note the sound of velcro being separated halfway through.  That would be the 2 year old removing his "safety" belt.

A waterfall to run underneath.
Gilroy Gardens
Daddy got the wettest, because he kept running through with little boys with varying degrees of joy/terror. (Colin=love, Eli=not love).

There was people watching with Walker
Gilroy Gardens

Because he chose not to ride the hot air balloons
Gilroy Gardens
Which went a little higher and faster than mommy expected, but Colin squealed with the delight the whole time and Eli immediately informed me he had, "so much fun on that ride."

There were fried artichoke hearts and lemonade icees.



We drove the cars, just one more time, and then walked merrily out of the gate.

Gilroy Gardens

Already looking forward to the next trip.

1 comment:

Matt said...

Auto play fail :). Three videos on the same post all set to auto play make for very confusing audio. Awesome videos though. We miss yall.