Mini Jumping Castle!

Today I brought a mini jumping castle my friend had given me to my sisters place. I'd never seen it inflated so I was surprised at how big it was when it went up!

 

The little wheel barrow was H's contribution.. she's a very helpful girl!

15 minutes later it seemed firm enough to let the kiddies play in.

The harshest way to find out your too big (heavy) is to have a jumping castle rapidly deflate underneath you. Luckily there's a crawl space for us to keep the kiddies company.

H thoroughly enjoying crawling around and playing in the ball pit. 

A little too much... =)
This is her response to "time to go have a nap" ..hehe cheeky monkey

Boy was it hot outside! a refreshing glass of milk before napping please!

Even grandma is all pooped!
I guess now we know why H is so cheeky... she just like her mummy!

 Love heart tattoo for grandma! She thought it was the baby =D

Zorbing!!

Ever since Zorbing appeared on the Amazing race a few years ago I've been looking around for places to do it closer to home. The closest place was in Queensland so I've been hinting that we should take a holiday to New Zealand (where it all started). I guess it would be pretty cool to see the Lord of the Rings area as well but that's secondary =).

In saying that we just haven't ever gotten around to it. So I was ecstatic when my husband took me Zorbing in Sydney last year for my birthday! We arrived at Moore Park in the afternoon and headed to the top of the hill.

Waiting for us at the top was a gloriously bright blue inflated ball!

Inside were two sets of harnesses. Little did K know I wouldn't let him get away with not riding with me at least once =)... suit or no suit!

The guy inflated the ball a bit more for us before the big tumble!

 

 It was so much fun just tumbling around inside not going anywhere..

Finally all strapped in! Time to go!

... It was awesome!

A bit scary to start off because the guy rolled me head first going forward.

But it was so exciting and I couldn't help laughing out loud when I saw him running down the hill alongside the ball!

Thanks for the safety measure!

For $20 a ride it very much worth it! 2 goes was my limit but I'm glad Zorbing has finally made it to Sydney!

Horizontal Bungee!!

A friend of mine hired a horizontal bungee for her housewarming party a few weeks ago. I'd never seen or even heard of a horizontal bungee before she mentioned it.

As a person that has vowed never to try bungee jumping I went to the party with a mixture of curiousity, apprehension and excitement.

We arrived at the party early (mostly so I could get some bungeeing in first before the other guest arrived =)  and headed straight for the back yard. The thing was HUGE!

There was a bungee rope and harness attached to the end. The Horizontal Bungee also came with a few bean bags and a Velcro strip at the far side of the runway. The aim is to get the bean bag as far down the strip as possible.

After a few goes I concluded that I didn't have enough launching power to get it much further then 2/3 and by then I could feel the whiplash. It was totally worth it though so we played on it for a few more hours.

The boys were really good at the game and got it right down to the very ends of the velcro strip.

While I was mostly using it a as a long jumping castle. We only stopped playing once the sun went down and I could hardly see my hand in front of my face.

It was heaps of fun and highly recommended!