Jumpin' Jaks

Clara and I went to a place called Jumpin' Jaks today. It's an indoor playground with two rooms, a wild west room and a jungle room. It's great, not too sterile, not too safe and not too expensive! You pay your child's age, maximum $4, they have a snack bar that was very reasonably priced and they're open until 9 pm. Finally, I've found an accessible, inexpensive form of entertainment. I thought it didn't exist.

The jungle room is just basically a huge maze. It's so random, it doesn't even look like they used plans to build it. There were spots that even I had trouble maneuvering through. There were little dark corners that would be perfect for a good hide and seek game. This place is probably heaven to 4 and 5 year olds. Everything is carpeted and dangerous pieces are covered with foam noodles, but it doesn't have the same "my child better not get hurt on this play equipment" quality that you see in playgrounds now. Perfect. Each room had a tire swing and a ball pit, but the balls were being cleaned today so we didn't get to play in them.

There were a couple of places that she could've gotten hurt and the slides were a riot. They were enclosed in small hallways, were wooden I suppose and then covered in a slick laminate. Man we got to moving! One was seriously tall. I did let her go down some of them by herself. At the bottom of one of them, there was a padded wall a couple feet in front of it. She was going so fast she flew off the slide and hit the wall with her feet. Another one she turned halfway down and ended up flying off the end and landing on her side. Surprisingly, she went down again.

All in all, this was a great place for a little bigger kids to play. It was a little too much for Clara to maneuver through on her own and it's hard for adults to get through most of it. If she had gotten stuck anywhere and started freaking out, it would've taken me forever to get to her. Nevertheless, we'll be going back for sure; can't beat $1.00 entertainment!

Awesome slide

Peekaboo!

Up.........

.....and dooooowwwwn!