Today I took the kids over to a gymnastics facility that offers an "open gym" hour for only $5/kid. It was called AGT Flip City (All World Gym) and here is their website: http://www.allworld-gym.com If you get a chance, you should venture over to their site, because they have videos posted of some of their students performing. The first one I watched was absolutely incredible with a boy flipping like a thousand times down the long trampoline runway.
Anyways, this was the second time that I had ever been there, and I can tell you it won't be the last if it is in my power. :) It was so much fun for the kids (and I enjoyed it too).
Their gymnastics equipment is available for you to use if you choose (like balance beam, uneven bars, etc.) but mainly we stuck to the long trampoline runways:
jumping into and "swimming" in the foam blocks:
and bouncing on the other trampolines:
It ended up that it was just 2 other moms and 3 kids so we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. They ran, and ran, and jumped, and jumped pretty much the whole hour. And as it is naptime right now, I'm hoping that they sleep well. They've been needing a good running session to tire them out.
Winter is hard when you're stuck inside, but if I can get them out to places like this, it really helps - both them and me.
