Ballocity

Today was a Daddy and Drew day. Drew's daycare provider was out of town, and there was no one to watch Drew while Jill and I worked, so I took the day off to hang out with my son. We had a great time. We baked cookies and went to the kids club. It was my first time there, but I gotta say that it is damn impressive. They have a HUGE indoor playground/jungle gym thing. It has tubes, slides and LOTS of padding. Just recently opened was the part of the play area called Ballocity. It is basically a 3-level room full of air cannons and foam balls. It is totally awesome.

Here is Ballocity.

So here's how it works. First you enter to bottom of Ballocity. Grab a yellow bag and fill it up with as many balls as you can, all the while getting hit by balls being shot at you from all sides, falling from bins in the sky, and launching out of the ball volcano.

"I got my balls dad... let's GO! (ball volcano in background)

Once the balls are collected, you climb your way up to a nice high level and approach an empty cannon.

Here Drew demonstrates the proper technique for aiming the cannon.

In his picture you can see the killing floor, as well as the loading chamber for the cannon. If you look in the lower left corner, you can see a kid collecting balls.

Badasssssss!!!!!

Here dad tries to line up a shot at his young son. What a touching moment.

As we were about to leave, I hung out on the floor so that Drew could take a few shots at me. He and I both had a really great time.