Saturday, October 10, 2009

Sensapolis!

We had a super fantastic day at the Sensapolis today! This is an amazing hands-on playpark like NOTHING you've seen in the good 'ol U.S. of A. And while I loved absolutely everything about it, the tiny cup-of-coffee I got was really not to my liking. Give me a Starbucks over german tasse any day!

Our first experience at the Sensapolis was the spaceship... complete with escape slides like no other. The dad convinced the daughter to go down the death slide. Can you see the look of terror on her face? See, the thing is, she knew what she in for. Me on the other hand? After losing my bunch, I decided to trek up to the top of the spaceship & slide down the 10 & over slide. A dark tube through space. Cool. Nuh-UH!

That puppy started off like a normal slide and then, all of a sudden, the bottom dropped out & I was hanging in MIDAIR. Seriously. MIDAIR. I screamed like a little girl. Those are some seriously scary slides.

Of course the 20+ slides were nothing compared to, get this, the ropes course up in the air. UP BY THE CEILING they had a bunch of logs for you to walk across. Oh yeah. You needed a harness, safety gear, helmet and a whole-lot-of-bravery to do this. Here's me & #3 son, 17, giving it a shot. For superb pictures of how high, how scary this is go to Sensapolis itself. Awww heck, I'll blatantly steal one of theirs to give you a sense of how crazy this is:
You are literally up by the ceiling, above everyone's head, no safety net, and that stuff shakes & moves & wiggles... OHmiGaaaaaaaaaawd! To top it all of, the lady before me? At least 6 months pregnant if not 7 or 8. Germans are crazy.

We laughed our butts off when we saw the ball pit for the babies. Ball pits are fun. Babies love ball pits! But this ball pit, had a 4-5 story cage built around it. And each level of the cage had an air-pressured ball shooting gun on it. To shoot balls at the babies. ROFL! My husband had a delightful time up there.

Here you can see Dave shooting away, a level above him is our baby running free. That's another thing here, kids run free so much more. Our kids are in Heaven and I'm slowly starting to relax. It's a wonderful change of pace (except for those darn coffee cups)






And because it's Germany, it is the land of the pigs. I'm enjoying my pig beer and dangling from my rear view mirror is my new car freshner:
I am sooooooooooo lucky.

7 comments:

May Scholz said...

It must be so much fun, but not for me.
I'm acrophobia.

:)

Tracy said...

Man they are a little wild in Germany when it comes to child safety Toiny. OMG that is just insane. Love the new airfreshener, too sweet!! does he squeek or snort or anything?? LOL. Great to see a pic of you too Honey!!

Piggyscraps said...

Hey Tracy, good to know the Aussies are more in line w/my thinking LOL.

And nope, the pig just smells. In a good way, thankfully, not like pig farts or anything. ;)

Unknown said...

Toiny, that slide sounds absolutely scary, but my DH would love it, the ball pit sounds like fun, but I still like to be able to see where my kids are.......
How is the house hunt going???

Anonymous said...

ROFLMBO! Shooting balls at the babies!!! That is just too funny! They are a bit lenient with the child safety, but they always say Americans are uptight! LOL! Great pictures, I'm so happy you're enjoying yourselves there!! I'll send you a nice Super-sized coffee! teehehe...

Modern-Day Ma said...

oh my gosh! that sensapolis looks sooo fun! i agree with tracy, crazy! lol :-) looks like a blast!

BW said...

OMG! We lived in Stuttgart for 2 years and went to Sensopolis soon after it opened. My boyes LOVED IT! Nothing like that in the US is right!