Makutu's Island

On Monday my mom came down and treated us to a fun day at MAKUTU'S ISLAND! (Thanks MOM!) It is this amazing indoor play place that is all island themed and is the greatest run around activity play place ever. It has water and volcano rock climb area, a swinging rope bridge above that connects two of the areas, this huge banana slide that is really, really fast (and hurts adults) a slide that wraps around this huge tree that has about a thousand kids climbing inside of it. So I am enjoying myself watching the chaotic pleasure of my children. One by one they started asking me to go with them. I finally consented. They wanted to start by the volcano climb so I said great! Now think to yourself about volcano's for a minute.











Small tiny holes everywhere.



Dark secret places to climb thru.


Steam......

Okay you get the idea...


As I was ascending in this 'volcano' squeezing thru each little place as twenty kids are trying to pass by me, I thinking what have I done? Then suddenly there is a little light followed by the cute giggle of Avery. Ahh I made it. There is a small open area surrounding me. I look up to see her lovely smile, as my eyes are now adjusting from the brighter lighting of the open space.
All of a sudden she says 'BYE!' and reaches across this empty hole to grab a pole in the middle, you know the fireman type, only that it falls considerably and I have just witnessed my child's death, I think. There she flies off into the dark hole

and then the cute giggle came. 'Mom, it was fun!!' and away she went again.
It scared me so much! I tried to recover and think I used to think this was really fun too! Kaden and Isabelle are now beckoning me to follow them as they have made it to the top now. We have to cross over the rope bridge that is on the edge of the waterfall. I was requesting a wetsuit and goggles they never came. The water surprisingly never gets near you just give the scary impression that one is about to get wet. Then there is was....
THE SCARY SWINGING ROPE BRIDGE that stretches across the place high up in the beams!! I wanted to scream for my mommy to come help me,(she was there remember-in the safety of the soft squishy floor) but as my three kids are requesting my feet to start moving I think I can't possibly go back now and I have to cross this bridge!! As I started across other kids that are not my own are cheering me on, "Good Luck" I hear. "You'll make it" I now visualize myself in a distant land of Costa Rica, my dream vacation, being brave in the jungles crossing this bridge people take pictures of to brag about. And there I am. Across safe and sound.
Now, Anson no reading this and thinking that I am saying you're off the hook of going to Costa Rica, just that it was my happy place so I didn't look down and start screaming at the top of my lungs!
Next we find that Kaden who had been our group leader had taken us to the BANANA Slide. I don't like the banana slide as it really is fast and steep and hurts adults!
I did get lucky as we approached the Banana slide that hurts adults, Isabelle didn't want to go on it either. Yeah! I was off the hook. She leads me thru a mesh tunnel that hangs about twenty-five feet in the air to the safety of the twin twisty slides. The nice fun twisty slides! So she went in one I in the other and we raced to the end. Oh the eventful time inside this great play place. Quite the change from the quiet little McDonald's ones where the only thing to fear is bodily fluid on the slide!