Monster Pizza and Phillips Park

[katjamiles]

The pizza place we love has a park near it! Monster Pizza & Cafe has...you guessed it, PIZZA! It also has a collection of coffee flavors (I tried the raspberry chocolate bean and it was delicious), a soft drink fountain, snack bar items (such as a variety of sandwiches and salads, foot long subs and wraps, wings and chicken bites, pasta, stromboli/calzones, appetizers, and deserts). The cozy inside seating area is diner-esqe in style with 2 large screen tvs for one's viewing pleasure. It also has an outdoor patio seating area that looks to the new river body of water. It also seems to house herbs and pretty looking plants. The place itself is set on a corner of land that is the end of a long line of various commercial businesses and one end of the new river bridge.

The park we found is known as the Phillips Park. It runs along side the adjoining river so there is a place to fish (we have seen many wildlife gather there). The playground seems to be one of the bigger areas I have noticed. It has a play area that contains fun slides of different sizes and styles (tall, short, wide, tunneled) that connect via steps, ramps and bridges. It has a seperate area for swings, as well as spring loaded rockers (they are usually shaped like an animal or object you you ride on top of/inside of that rocks back and forth due to the large spring it sits upon), a wooden ladder rung and a upright cement barrel that seems to be a perfect hiding spot! The fun feature this park holds are the wide and colorful cement tunnels (I think there is 7) that my 2 year old just loves to run through. Some of them have perches dividing them in half so one could use it to lay/sit in. Farther down yonder, I have seen a baseball field, bathrooms and water fountains. This is also a neighborhood park so be wary that pieces (like the drinking fountains) may not work. I was also told that the place smelled strongly of urine...