My oh my what a week thus far. I am so behind! Looking forward to getting my posts caught up! Have kind of a neat picture for "Plastic". Friends of ours had their sons first birthday on the weekend, and they purchased a ball pit for the kids to play in, the little kids of course. All the "big" kids were just throwing the balls around! The kids had a fantastic time in this thing. I can remember when my kids were little, we had taken the kids to McDonald's one night the twins were only about a year and a half old then. My girl friend Dayna and I had been out for our nightly walk, and we decided to take the kids for an ice cream. McDonald's was unusually empty for a Thursday evening. We figured we would stay in and eat our ice cream and then finish our walk home. We took the kids into play land. It was deserted. So Dayna and I thought it would be fun to take the kids through the tunnels and down the slide. They loved it. Then they discovered the "ball pit". The ball pit at our McDonald's was pretty big and deep, so Dayna and I got in there with them. We had the most unbelievable time in there! They were trying to walk around in there but sank every step they took. Dayna and I laughed, like I have never laughed before. I'm not sure who had more fun, them or us.
Now I also know that a lot of the McDonald's have taken their play places out all together, in order to establish a more "mature" restaurant atmosphere. Some have removed the ball pits due to cleanliness. I know our McDonald's used to remove the balls once a week and vacuum out the area to keep it clean. It's a shame really that the play places have been removed as I'm sure there are many of us who have great memories of a McDonald's birthday party, or just simply a play date with friends, while your parents had a coffee and some catch up time!
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