Playing in the sandbox (city style)

At the park near our condo, there's a gravel walkway along the river. The neighborhood families bring their toddlers to the park with sandbox toys for the kids to play in the gravel. Including us. On a good day, there are 10 or 15 of them sneaking off with one another's shovels, buckets, dump trucks, etc.

I haven't decided whether this is is adorably resourceful or a sad commentary on raising toddlers in the city.

I don't really bother to think about it much, though.