Aspen Grove Park

The boys and I ran a few errands this morning and we stopped by Aspen Grove Park for a couple of hours to explore.  The park is in the middle of Cool Springs (a main shopping and office area in Franklin).

The park is really clean and kept up well.  The kids had fun playing on the playground.

(Rylan ran away everytime I tried to get a picture of him on the playground.)

Then we walked on the paths to see if we could find any of the seven letterboxes that are supposedly placed in the park.  We found none.  We were definitely in all the right spots but it seems that someone has removed all of them (they seem to get stolen often in heavily used parks when random people see others find them).

We still had fun exploring the park and crossing all the bridges.  Both boys enjoy the search and finding the landmarks more than finding the actual letterboxes anyway.

We stopped for lunch at a picnic table next to the stream.  We were under an oak tree that had dropped tons of acorns.

The boys spent probably 30 minutes collecting acorns and tossing them into the water.

The simplest things are always the most fun!