Thursday, April 27, 2017

Koeneman Park, Jennings



Location: Lucas and Hunt Rd at Robley Dr., Jennings, MO 63136

Website: http://jenningsrecreationstl.weebly.com/park-news.html

Playground Ground Cover: Wood Chips

What an amazing park and playground! The gazebo and lake are visible when you first enter, and it's breathtaking. I bet a lot of people take photos in this spot.




 The lake is fully stocked with channel catfish, trout, largemouth bass.


 The restrooms are new and clean


 The playground is enormous with lots of different things to do. 


 The big play structure has different slides, a bridge, and tons of bars and poles.




 They have a balance beam that bounces where you see the white areas in the middle


They have 3 segments of a dragon, my kids loved that


This is the playground for 2-5 year olds, it has pretend windows, a bridge, climbing wall, bubble window, maze board, steering wheel, and speakers. Right next to it is a pirate ship. 





 Spiderweb climber



Boulder to climb on


 They have 2 baby swings, 2 sling swings, and a hippo you can climb on.



 There are several rock formations that kids can climb on.




This playground is definitely worth the drive!

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Lang-Royce Park, Ferguson



Location: 1200 Lang Drive, Ferguson, MO 63135

Website: https://www.fergusoncity.com/619/Lang-Royce-Park

Playground Ground Cover: Grass

This is a smaller park and there are no bathrooms. There is a pavilion next to the playground.





There are 3 ride on horses and I believe the ground used to be covered in wood chips but they are long gone.


 The play structure has 2 slides, a zipline, and bars and poles.


 There are 2 baby swings and 2 sling swings.






Saturday, April 22, 2017

Incredible Pizza Company, South County




Location: 5254 South Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63126

Amenities: buffet, game room, attractions (go karts, bumper cars, bowling, roller coaster, laser tag, tilt-a-while, and 3D movie ride)

Website: https://incrediblepizza.com/st-louis/

America's Incredible Pizza Company in south county (located in the strip mall next to Ronnie's Theater) is now owned and operated by corporate management. As a result of this change in management, they made 1.4 million dollars worth of improvements. Bloggers were invited to enjoy a free buffet to come in and check out the changes made. I had not been to Incredible Pizza before (or Hammers, as it was formerly called), so I don't have past experience to compare our visit to.

We ate lunch at the buffet first. There are 4 different dining rooms, with TVs showing kid shows. The buffet had many types of pizza, deserts- including cookies, soft serve ice cream, slushies, cupcakes, bread pudding, monkey bread, and more. There was also a taco bar which had seasoned beef, shredded chicken, and spicy chicken dip with fritos for dipping. They had some pasta, a great salad bar, and hot dogs as well. The pizza wasn't as bad as I expected, and they did offer to cook us a fresh pizza. The soda area did not have lids for the cups, but the staff was able to find me lids after I asked. There are tons of high chairs for families with younger kids.








They have a special area for toddlers called Tiny Town and it's next to the prize counter.


Inside Tiny Town they have a playground similar to what you'd see at McDonald's, a couple ride on games, and some smaller arcade games. 







The Fairgrounds is the regular game and attraction room. As far as attractions go they offer laser tag, go-karts, bumper cars, roller coaster, XD theatre, mini-bowling, and Lost in Space (a tilt-a-whirl ride). Mixed in throughout the room are various other arcade games. All the games use the game card, which debits the cost of the game and collects all your tickets. It's difficult to know how many tickets you have though until you go up to the prize counter to redeem them. Not as fun as when you could carry around a huge cup full of tickets to redeem. My 2.5-year-old picked out a little plastic horse, a ball, and a small mermaid doll for her 219 tickets. Thankfully the lady at the prize counter was very patient with the little ones picking out their prizes!


















The roller coaster spins like Pandemonium at Six Flags. It was really fun! She did the bumper cars and we rode the go-karts as well. Everything was really fun and she said it was the best day of her life! The food is just eh but for unlimited food at $8.99 per person, I'll eat it.