April 18 - Pump It Up

Victoria and Andrew had a half day of school on our third day, so Julia and Luke played on their cousins awesome play set in the backyard. Uncle Greg was a trouper playing various tag games with Julia and pushing the kids on the swings (thanks Uncle Greg!). When Victoria and Andrew came home, we headed out for our next adventure: Pump It Up (http://www.pumpitupparty.com/). If you have a child between the ages of 3 and 8, you've been probably been to one these places before. In fact, I'm sure you've been several times for various birthday parties (we went 5 weekends in a row to the place in Houston earlier this year). For those of you unfamiliar with these places, there are usually several different types of bounce houses (either a private room for your party or a larger play area) and then private party rooms for cake and ice cream. A little bit of advice-if something like this does not exist in your city, you should seriously consider opening one. They are a cash cow. Kids LOVE them and they are always packed on the weekends for parties. During the week they have free play and sometimes camps. 

So-back to Pump It Up. We went to free play and it was AWESOME. The facility and bounce houses were practically brand new and there was only one other family there. We practically had the whole place to ourselves. There was a cool wind machine the kids tried out that had really high winds.The kids LOVED it!

Here is the little man climbing up the big slide.

This place also had the coolest-bar none-bounce house I've ever seen. Here is  a photo:

See the squares? We had rectangle shaped pieces of canvas with Velcro, similar to ribbons (you can see a few in the above picture). We had to jump (or crawl up like the girl in the video) to either attach them or get them down. Peeps-it was so much fun I could have done this for hours straight. It was also great exercise! Julia played in this thing almost the entire time we were there. Andrew and Luke were too small to do it, but the rest of us got into the action. Here is a video with appearances by Julia, Victoria and one out of shape mommy (yours truly) who had a blast.

Next up-Greystone Rec Center.