So being a kid means a cool experience is needed, and that means, slides - you got to have slides, right? If there's water, then it's a water park, which is great, except for mom's and dad's, that can mean, loads of looking after water type stuff, which gets old fast, right mom and dad? So what could be cool, but not have to have water in it? Well there is always the Disney approach, but that's sort of costly for a Saturday quick and cool, wouldn't you say? Plus Disney is huge and hugely hard to do on a budget, if you get my meaning. So what is the ultimate cool place? I think we found it, and this article shares that with you, so if your neighborhood doesn't have one yet, you can get one ordered, it's called "The Jungle Gym."
Adults lose their sense of fun pretty quickly, who knows why, maybe it's the uptight world we live in, maybe it's because if it isn't the cost of gas going up, it will something else that gives us gas, it's always something isn't it? So for kids it's a matter of the adults being in a place where they can loosen up a bit! This is that place. Totally controlled, totally immersive fun environment, where a kid can just, well; be a kid. What do kids like to do, jump, and bounce, and run, and have fun together on the slides...it's a neat experience in a room that is air conditioned, with nets for safety, so the little ones can't get hurt, and- best of all; loads of workers who "keep an eye," on your kid. As if all of that isn't really, really cool; here comes the very best part- adults get in free. I've always been a fan of free.
This Jungle Gym is in West Monroe [CLICK 2], but for certain the idea is not a new one, it's just when it is well managed and well run, it gives parents a break- and parent's don't we need a break? What about grandparents? Do we grandparents also need a time when we can just watch the little wonderful bundles that we have charge of, having a ball? Look, it's not like we don't like having them, every other week, as many grandparents do, and it's not that I'm an old curmudgeon, like my wife says; rather it is that sometimes we need to have a break, but we want the kids to have fun, and trust me- here they are having a grand time- and it's nearly impossible for them to get hurt! That's what I love about this place, they've taken every precaution to make sure that every child is safe- but able to just get; "NUTS", and be what kids naturally are. It's really wonderful, so, if you live in West Monroe and you haven't been over on 7th street off Cypress (U.S. 80); then please take this articles advice and let your kid or grandkid go have a ball!
OK, I get it, and you are right, in my day, it was the park, it was free, and yes I know, we could go there on our own- but folks, that was forty years ago, and the times, well; they've changed- haven't they? So what we grandparents and parents need is a break, the Jungle Gym way!
References
1. Site about fun times viewable on the World Wide Web (www) at: http://thefuntimesguide.com/
2. Site about the Jungle Gym in Monroe La: http://www.thejunglegym.net/index.html
3. Becoming a kid again: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_11_59/ai_n6158329
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Post a Comment3 Lil, RC and Donna, you guys definetely rock and I deeply appreciate your taking the time to read and comment on my stuff...thansk. DrD
Very nice review, sounds like lots of super fun!!!!
Excellent job~!
You are kidding, right Dana? (laugh) It's been a couple years to be sure...now I'm missing the water slides...not free, but fun. Nice mid-summer article!