Playtown Express

We found a children's play area a little over an hour from where we live. It's too bad this isn't closer- Neil loved it! We met Dave's dad and sister there; it's on the way from our house to theirs and we were trying to meet partway. This is closer to their house than ours but that was fine.

I didn't get a picture of the whole place- there really were different areas for different age ranges. Some areas Neil was too young for, but a lot was just perfect. There was also an area for the infants with bouncers and jumpers, and some couches. Dave's sister pointed out that all the pregnant women seemed to be sitting on the couches. She was right. (Didn't take a picture of that.) I think on future visits though it would be fine to nurse a baby while Neil plays. The only thing is we'll need 2 of us still to keep an eye on Neil because this place is so big and he was getting pushed around to some extent by the older kids. (Not intentionally.)

This was Neil's favorite area- it was a smaller bounce area with little extra things like a slide, tunnels to crawl through, a horse and a dog to bounce on, etc. It was meant for toddlers although older kids kept getting in and were pretty rough/bouncing with Neil in there.

Neil liked this slide and the "stairs" to climb up it was ledges you had to crawl around. Cute!

They also had an area with little "houses" as far as a kitchen, and some other stuff like that. Next to it they had those Step 2 roller coasters, which I've heard about but never really seen in action. It takes up a lot of room but Neil loved this too and kept dragging it back up to reset and go again. They had two of these there, as well as other vehicles like cozy coupes, etc.