Mason’s Birthday Party — Jump Zone!

Words cannot describe just how much fun Mason had today at his birthday party. I mean, just look at the joy on this kid’s face. Priceless!

I’ll explain, shortly.

Jump Zone is an interesting little business. You know those inflatable moon bounces? Jump Zone is, essentially, a giant carpeted warehouse with seven or eight industrial strength moon bounces inside. Each moon bounce has a different theme: one looked like a sinking ship with a giant octopus on top, one had a Batman theme, one was even a giant bouncy basketball court. Mason and about a dozen of his friends wore their little fannies out, running and bouncing and sliding.

And then, Mason lost a tooth. No one saw the actual incident, but apparently he jumped into something face first and knocked his tooth out. It was a loose baby tooth — no dentist trip needed — but once Mason saw the blood he lost it. Mason’s like that. Earlier this week Mason cut his shin on something and by the way he was screaming I honestly thought he’d broken his leg. So of course, the tooth incident combined with blood loss threatened to end the entire party. Mason screamed and cried and put on a production so loud that parents we didn’t even know came to check on him. After a solid ten minutes, I was able to convince Mason it was no longer bleeding. At that point he wiped his tears, put on a smile, and went back to bounce land

Injuries aside, everyone had a wonderful time. The kids couldn’t run from one bouncy to the next fast enough. After just over an hour’s worth of jumping, the kids were wrangled up and herded into one of Jump Zone’s party rooms. None of the kids seemed particularly impressed by the Xbox cake, but the eighteen year old employee thought it was pretty cool. Mason spent the party sitting in a giant inflatable birthday throne, where his royal assistants (both of his grannies) tended to his every whim.

A birthday package for fifteen kids at Jump Zone is right at two-hundred bucks, which is just about the going rate for a birthday party of that size. True, we could have had it at the house, but I suspect there would have been the same amount of jumping, whether it was on Jump Zone’s equipment or my own furniture. We were so glad everyone was able to make it out!

For all the pictures from Mason’s Jump Zone party, CLICK HERE.