The 11-year old has been begging me to take him to a new place in our area called SkyZone. So, with dark skies prohibiting much outdoor play, I gave in and took both him and one of his friends on this new adventure.
When he was younger, birthday parties with "bouncy houses" were very popular. There's just something about jumping up and down that kids love.
SkyZone takes that love of jumping to a whole new level.
Having a trampoline in your backyard is something that most kids would view as awesome. SkyZone went with the theory that "more is better" . This place had at least a hundred trampolines, all connected to one another so that you could jump from one to the next. Even the walls were made of trampolines, allowing for acrobatics unimaginable in a backyard.
And jump they did. For an hour straight. They played dodgeball on trampolines. They played basketball on trampolines. They played leapfrog on trampolines. They jumped from trampolines into a pit of foam, much like jumping off a diving board into a swimming pool.
They were a sweaty, happy mess after their hour was up. "That was the fastest hour of my life", said his friend.
And the whole time they were jumping, I kept looking around and thinking, "Now why didn't I think of this?".
So now I know where we will most likely spend some time this winter. And in all honesty, I'd much rather they go play there than go to the movies,and it didn't cost me any more than that. There was already talk on the way home of talking siblings and friends into having their birthday parties there so they could go back.
Today's pic represents that fun-when-you're-a-kid feeling in your head and stomach when you defy gravity, and discovering a new way to play that doesn't involve electronics!
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