Monkey Joes

Since we were at home for an entire weekend, Laura wanted to take Avery to Monkey Joes to play on the various inflatable objects and slides.  I wanted to go because 40 screaming kids running around will test to see if I need blood pressure medication.  Here is a handful of pictures from the hour and a half that we were there.  I have a video that I will put up in a separate post.

Luckily parents were allowed to "assist smaller children" on the rides.

 Climbing the big slide.  She knew there was fun at the top of this.  It was crazy to watch how she threw aside her typical fear and went right at going down the slides by herself.

I think mommy enjoyed the slide almost as much as Avery.

 Less than thrilled about the Merry-go-round.  It was funny as soon as we put the tokens into the ride, 4 other kids came sprinting over to ride on the 2 other spots on this merry go round....for maybe 60 seconds of riding.  I had to pull one kid off because he was just trying to hold on to the pole.

So this was the toddler area.  She didn't need any help climbing the slide stairs and going down the slide herself.  She probably went up and down it 40 times in a row.  

It is hard work playing this hard.  This was in between slide number 27 and 28.  She walked around and caught her breath before climbing the ladder again for another dozen or so times down the slide.