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Sunday, March 27, 2005 - (see all news for this day)
jumping castle - 11:29 AM
(filed under 'baby')
yesterday morning, before the rodeo, the sunflower parade was on through the streets of town, ending at the race track where they were to have a horse race. we didn't stay for the racing, but turned up early to take smiley on the "children's rides" which were advertised in the little booklet with the calendar of events.
the "children's rides" plural turned out to be more of a "children's ride" singular, since there was only a jumping castle. well, there were two jumping castles in the same set up, so i suppose they were technically correct.
anyway, i wanted to take smiley on the jumping castle before the parade got there & thus all the other kids arrived, making it too rough for him to go on. i asked the man attending them if i could go on with smiley & he agreed. he was going to charge us two $3 tickets but changed his mond & only charged us one. i was glad since he's still too little to go by himself so we didn't really have a choice but to go on together.
it was great fun! i do admit that i had alterior motives when i wanted to take him on the jumping castle. i hadn't been on a jumping castle since i was a kid myself.
it had a huge, quite steep slide in the middle & you had to climb up a rope netting thing up the back of it to get to the top. i went down with smiley on my lap the first couple of times, but then once i saw it was safe enough & smiley knew what was going on, i sent him down first & then followed.
he had almost as much fun as i did. it'll be a pity that when he's old enough, i won't have the excuse to go on. *chuckle* 
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i see a trend starting. first the toy animals, then dipping the tim tams in one's smoothie, now the jumping castle thing. are we reverting back to childhood, real girl?