Almost as good as the hippo pool

Last summer Jill and I took Evan to swim a bunch in a nice big wading pool by the Space Needle (see our posts from last year if you don't remember -- Evan in the wading pool and Our Little Hippo). We hadn't taken him this summer yet so Jill suggested I take him this evening. Evan was saying "hippo pool! hippo pool!" for an hour. To our horror when we got there it was fenced off and empty for some repairs. We were both very disappointed. Instead of giving up we decided to go to the Centennial Fountain and check it out. There were tons of kids running in the fountain so Evan decided to give it a try.

He would run up towards the water and as soon as it turned on he'd turn around and run back out of range. He got hit a few times by the water on his back and he loved it. Evan took a rest part way through playing and posed for this shot:

On our walk back to the car Evan decided to climb all over a bunch of red benches. He climbed from bench to bench and seemed to love that almost as much as running in the fountain.

While we were upset the hippo pool was closed, we made the best of it and decided that this was almost as good as the hippo pool.