BoB's Life: Busy Day

With the weather around here starting to make park days few and far between we wanted to find some other fairly inexpensive indoor places for the kids to expel some energy. Today we checked out a place called Scooter's Jungle.

We LOVED it. First, it was $11 for all 5 of us. That's an awesome deal! Adults can play on everything there too (well, provided you don't weigh over 250lbs). There were slides, bounce houses, a zipline, ping pong, table hockey, a very large jungle gym, and other kids to play with. It was very clean, had a great atmosphere and it wasn't crowded, but I have heard that it does get pretty crazy in the summer. I suppose everyone wants to play in the air conditioning. Our only complaint was the music choice. They played mostly pop songs which included things like Outkast's "Roses" and Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc" durning "Toddler Time"... They did bleep out the expletives, but really?

This slide was the girls favorite.

Ty and HQ up in the giant jungle gym.

Locke enjoyed the smaller bounce house where he could watch the zipline and giggle.

He also enjoyed these giant green things.

Waiting patiently for her turn at table hockey.

When we got home, HQ went down for a nap and Izzy got down to business. Some serious homework business. Our Proverb this week is, "A fool always loses his temper, But a wise man holds it back." Proverbs 29:1. Izzy said she can't wait until she has learned all the Proverbs because then she will be "super wise". I gently reminded her that knowing them doesn't make you wise, living them does.

Homework!

Today was Izzy's last soccer practice for the season. To be perfectly honest I am excited about soccer being over. The start of the season and the derogatory competitive parents (not our team) left a bad taste in my mouth. You don't see people acting like that at tennis, swim, dance, gymnastics, or volleyball! Perhaps we'll just stick with those.

Our "super delux oh my gosh it's coming towards me" stoller.

We walked to soccer practice today. Our car has ben stalling and with the school being only 2.4 miles away from our home seemed it like a good healthy walk. I checked the GPS to see how long it would take walking and it said 45 minutes. So we left an hour before practice time... We were 20 minutes late! Apparently where we live was not meant for pedestrians with kids. Especially if you use a stroller. The sidewalk randomly ends and leaves you on the side of one of our busiest main streets. Parts of the road where covered in with tree stumps, weird looking shrubs I've never noticed, and weeds that we had to lift our stroller over. I know we had to look crazy to the people driving. Locke found the bumpiness excited and laughed the majority of the time, but HQ would yell, "HEWP!" and hang on to the sides of the stroller for dear life. Fortunately for us a couple of the mom's offered to bring us home after practice. Phew!