It’s all fun until someone put vipers in the ball pit…
It’s busy, busy, busy here today. Ton of EO sample orders…all out of nowhere…very strange, but Yay! Also some custom soaps and some formulations to help a friend’s baby who has excema. (Poor little angel!)
The weekend was a blast. Met up with bookpixie, her husband and her adorable children on Saturday. We had a quick dinner and play time here, then dressed the kids up and headed off to the Rockwall Halloween Festival. There were a ton of people there, many more than expected, but the lines for the games moved pretty quick, and my son has fallen in love with bounce houses. Especially bounce houses that have slides. Slides that terminate in a giant pit filled with balls. He did that slide over and over again. Then he went on the really high bouncy slide, which surprised me, as it looked very high from the ground, but he scooted right up it and giggled all the way down.
Once the boys got to the “I’m so tired I think I’ll start crying” stage, we all headed home, where I fed everyone my latest recipe: pumpkin cheesecake. Oh. My. God. It’s so good. So very good. However, note to self…when one doubles a cheesecake recipe, it will make a lot, A LOT, of cheesecake.
So, the quest began to find someplace that had pit o’ balls for Boy’s bday next month. And nobody I’ve called has them. WTH? Apparently, they were an insurance nightmare. Kids suffocating, people putting broken glass and rumor has it, snakes, in the pits…I dunno. It all sounds a little hyper-hysterical to me. I mean, I agree that children shouldn’t play with Bag of Broken Glass TM, but Pit o’ Cushy Balls is too dangerous? Really?
Man, in my day, we had to throw ourselves into the swamp and avoid the alligators if we wanted to dive into something….and now foam balls are too dangerous? Sheesh. Kids today…
“Vipers in the Ball-Pit” would be an awesome name for a band.
Yeah the fast-food places have ditched them too. I heard hypodermics. Probably the person meant that it occurred to someone that some sicko might decide to put some in a ball pit, but you know hysteria. “WON’T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN??” When I was a kid, my elementary school playground had these play structures made of huge creosote-soaked logs, galvanized steel slide poles, slides you could almost never use because they were made of shiny silver metal and would roast your ass, and to top it off, the ground was “padded” with ROCKS. THE SIZE OF YOUR FIST. I have no idea who thought these things would be good to bounce off of. As far as I know, though, there were only a few sprains and dislocations before the county upgraded them to something less medieval. Aluminum and plastic.
Anyway, have you thought of one of those bounce-pavilion things? I hear they’re quite the rage now.
have you looked into the bounce-warehouses? seems to be the spot of choice for birthday parties these days. my niece had hers there & anjolie is all about it now… i really need to price that tho.
Oh man, it SO would!
I know, our playgrounds were concrete too. Kids today and their squishy safe reality.
I thought about a bounce house, but I’m really trying to avoid having a houseful of kids during my busy season. I have soap everywhere right now, and no place to put it but in customer order boxes.
No room for a dozen rug rats to go careening through here. 
I didn’t know there was a place where there were multiple bounce houses. I know we can rent *a* bounce house, or multiples, but that means having kids here….and I don’t want that.
It’s the busy season, there’s soaps and oils and stuff everywhere in prep for xmas orders…and really, I’ll take any excuse to not have a dozen screaming 5 year olds in my house.
try this… this is the only one whose name i knew that had ones in the area. the party is there, they have a cake room, etc…. good times, and no sticky little people in your house.
Er . . .put it outside?
No, seriously, I didn’t know they made those things indoor-sized. All the ones I’ve seen have been 8+ feet tall.
That’s really groovy. I wish they allowed smaller parties than 25 kids on the weekends though. The only small parties they allow are practically in the middle of the night, or on the weekdays. I don’t think we even *know* 25 kids. Heh.
But, good to know that sort of provider is out there, I’ll have to look around and see if I can find one that allows for smaller parties.
Oh yeah, *it* would be outside, but you know kids…they’ll want to come in to pee, and have snacks and touch things with their little sticky hands.
And Boy’s bday is in December. And there’s just no way to predict what the weather will do. It could be gorgeous…it could be an ice storm. Texas weather isn’t terribly predictable. Heh.