Jumpstreet Indoor Trampoline Park (Cedar Park)

Update: Angela in the comments (see below) said that kids under 7, with someone 12 years and up who has paid admission, may enter the otherwise restricted areas.  Had I known this, I would have happily paid admission to let my kids play everywhere, but I still would love it if there were an hour [...]

Ready Set Roll exhibit at Austin Children’s Museum

I probably had as much fun as my kids if not more at the Austin Children’s Museum with the current exhibit “Ready Set Roll” that began late January and will run through September.   Rolling a golf ball through a series of loops and on tracks is just a blast.  It’s classical mechanics at its [...]

Dave and Buster’s (north Austin)

Gattiland and Chuck E. Cheese are great fun for our kids, though we rarely go to either unless we are invited for a birthday party.  It’s not so much the noise level or the number of kids running around, but we just feel so cheated when it comes time to trade in the tickets (or [...]

El Salido Park (northwest Austin)

Hooray for awesome park weather!  After the stifling summer heat, the kids and I are once again out at the parks, enjoying them before the cedar pollen ruins the good fun in a couple of months. We recently made a stop at El Salido Park in northwest Austin, part of the Anderson Mill Limited District. [...]

Wazoo’s (South Austin)

Wazoo’s is another of Austin’s many indoor inflatable bounce house places, and we just discovered it this weekend.  It is near Southpark Meadows, tucked away in an industrial warehouse off of Cullen, near Slaughter and IH-35.  If we weren’t specifically going out of our way to find Wazoo’s, I’m not sure that we would have [...]

Kona Ice, sno-cones on wheels

My five year old and two of her close friends held a joint birthday party, and with it being upper 90s and ridiculous humidity, the moms decided it would be awesome if the Kona Ice truck would make a stop at the party. I went online, filled out the form, and within 24 hours I [...]

The Big Bounce (Cedar Park)

We have been anticipating the opening of The Big Bounce for months, as it seemed that the place announced a soon-to-open date last fall.  Finally The Big Bounce in Cedar Park has softly opened its doors with a grand opening to happen sometime in early summer, from what I understand.  We’re always on the look [...]

Jumpy Gym (South Austin)

We recently took the kids on a late Saturday afternoon to Jumpy Gym, I think one of the few remaining indoor inflatable places that we have not yet tried in the Austin metro.  I did a quick scan of the website, saw that they had a play area besides just the jumpy things, and that’s [...]

The Clubhouse Scene party planners (Austin area)

I had the great pleasure to host a party that The Clubhouse Scene planned, and I literally sat back and did absolutely nothing as my backyard transformed into this magic playland for a “Fairies and Knights” party.  Rebecca Obenhaus, the owner of The Clubhouse Scene wanted to showcase her full-service party planning service, and I [...]

Hoppin’ House (Lakeway)

I recently brought my daughter and my nephew here for an afternoon of play at Hoppin’ House as part of our “scout out a possible birthday party location” trip.  As soon as we walked through the doors, the kids were practically off running though I had to corral them back to put their shoes away [...]

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