Today we had Ben's seventh birthday party. The party was at Pump-It-Up, where they have two rooms full of cool inflatable slides, bouncers, and the like. Everything was going along fine, our 14 small beasts running happily amok, when the other party came stumbling out of the room next door. The power had gone out in most of the building. Now bouncing in the dark actually sounds like fun to me, but without the fans, the equipment all deflates.
What a perfect metaphor for our civilization's dependence on the electrical grid. So when it came time for us to vacate the first room -- the usual drill is you switch rooms after 45 minutes -- we made our way back to the pizza and cake room to eat lunch in the dark. This was actually pretty fun, and the kids had a great time climbing over this throne. I love the way kids can have a great time with nothing more than a foam cube, or a pile of leaves.
Today we had Ben's seventh birthday party. The party was at Pump-It-Up, where they have two rooms full of cool inflatable slides, bouncers, and the like. Everything was going along fine, our 14 small beasts running happily amok, when the other party came stumbling out of the room next door. The power had gone out in most of the building. Now bouncing in the dark actually sounds like fun to me, but without the fans, the equipment all deflates.
What a perfect metaphor for our civilization's dependence on the electrical grid. So when it came time for us to vacate the first room -- the usual drill is you switch rooms after 45 minutes -- we made our way back to the pizza and cake room to eat lunch in the dark. This was actually pretty fun, and the kids had a great time climbing over this throne. I love the way kids can have a great time with nothing more than a foam cube, or a pile of leaves.
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