Dennis the Menace park

If you are ever in Monterey with school-age children, definitely spend an afternoon at the Dennis the Menace Park. It's an impressive playground with a maze, an actual steam locomotive, a long suspension bridge, a tall climbing wall, and other cool equipment designed by Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace.



Colin and Katye have been reading mommy's Calvin and Hobbes collection and haven't read any Dennis the Menace. We tried to explain how Dennis was kind of like Calvin in that they were both mischievous -- but somehow Calvin is much funnier, probably because he's much more subversive. Anyway, it's time to check out some Dennis the Menace anthologies from the library.



OK, enough Monterey pics on the blog. See the complete album on Smugug.

BTW, I'm loving the Nikon D90 and the 18-200mm lens. It's not a perfect lens by any means, but you can't beat the convenience of this focal range (i.e., it's a "super-zoom") with fast auto-focusing, and good-enough optics to take some eye-popping pictures.