Since 1899 SMITH has been providing magical play experiences to the children of Philadelphia. Best known for the century old Giant Wooden Slide and mansion-like Playhouse, SMITH also offers 6 acres of play with more than 50 pieces of unique, age-appropriate play equipment in a beautiful naturalized landscape.

Location:

SMITH is located in East Fairmount Park just above Kelly Drive near 33^rd and Oxford Streets.  There is plenty of FREE parking on site and SMITH is also easily accessible by public transportation.

Cost:

FREE

Why it is awesome:

1. It’s Free
2. The playground awesome and has lots to do including a large wooden slide.
3. The playhouse is great for winter or rainy days!
4. It’s Free
5. The Kids LOVE IT

Other important information:

Virtual Tour

DAYS AND HOURS OF OPERATION

Playground

(for children 10 and under)

Tuesday – Sunday

10am – 4pm (April – October)

10am – 7pm (Saturdays and Sundays ONLY; last weekend of June – last weekend of August)

Playhouse

(for children 5 and under)

Tuesday – Sunday

10am – 4pm (year round)

Smith Playhouse

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Smith Playground "Tot Lot"

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Have a fantastic Memorial Day weekend everyone! I am off to spend time with my family!

If I hit my goal… this handmade number might just have to be mine!

Deleware Suit

If that is any indication, my 2010 should be filled with wonderful friends and good times! I cannot wait!

Stay Tuned!

2. I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?

3. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

4. OK. That’s enough, Nickelback.

5. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

6. The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.

7. Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on Facebook people that I do know, but deliberately choose not to be friends with?

8. There is a great need for sarcasm font.

9. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.

10. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.

11. The other night I hit a new low at an open bar. I had already hopped on highway blackout when, inevitably I had to find a bathroom. Eventually I decided it was probably on the other side of the bar so I tried to walk over there, but ran into a guy coming the other way. We played that, Both go left, Both go right game to no avail, so I finally put out my hand to guide myself past and that is when I realized, yup, that’s a mirror I just tried to walk through. And the guy on the other side is me. Even cats can recognize their own image.

12. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

13. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

14. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

15. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

16. Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.

17. I have a hard time discerning the fine line between boredom and hunger.

18. Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

19. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

21. Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”.

22. While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.

23. MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

24. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

25. I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

26. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

27. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

28. Bad decisions make good stories.

29. Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!

30. Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

31. If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

32. Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….

33. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

34. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

35. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

36. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my huge document that I swear I did not make any changes to.

37. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.

38. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’

39. While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA. No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don’t win, they are executed.

40. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and runaway?

41. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

42. I like all of the music on my Ipod, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs.

43. Why is a school zone 15 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…

44. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

45. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

46. It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

47. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

48. Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.

49. The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

50. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…

51. It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

52. I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

53. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

54. My four year old son asked me the other day in the car “Mom, what would happen if you ran over a ninja?” How the hell do I respond to that?

55. Was learning cursive really necessary?

56. Eating dessert, playing hooky, and having sex all have one thing in common. Once the idea crosses your mind it’s almost impossible not to do it, and if someone else says it out loud, it’s 100% going to happen.

57. A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

58. Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

59. Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

60. I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.

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It only took a minute for the panic to set in. We were on the second story of our house, locked out…. with all other doors into the house locked.

Personally I thought it was a little funny as I watched E scale the porch down to the deck below. Within one minute E had popped the screen out of the bay window which we had left open and slipped in.

Luckily 5 minutes after the ordeal we were back in the house, however I can’t help but be concerned over how easy it was to break into the house!

I am calling Brinks tomorrow….