That's very kind of you to highlight these posts. Good show! I'm up way past my bed time, but I'll keep this open to explore them tomorrow.
These days I don't have many weekend adventures. I am usually working on the weekend, or if I do have a day off it's to the park to play with my kids. (No complaints; I enjoy it a lot, just not sure how I could craft that into an exciting post, though I suppose seeing a Japanese playground might e interesting to some). But I'll keep the idea in mind for the future.
I used to work every weekend and occasionally have part of Friday off instead of the weekend. I did it for years and hated it. I like me weekends now. It gives me something to look forward to towards the end of the week and, of course, there's the weekends themselves to be enjoyed.
Playing with your kids at the playground seems nice, I don't have any, but had my four year old nephew down here over Christmas and we did that a lot.