Jump!

Both kids are in the local elementary school and each year they bring home some sort of fundraiser for the Parent Teach Organization. This usually consists of cookie dough, pies and or little trinkets to buy. They are always overpriced and the school gets a small percentage of the sale. But for the past two years they have been trying out something new. Instead of buying stuff they just ask for a flat donation where 100% of the money goes to the PTO. Then after everything is collected there is a fun run and carnival night where the kids get to go have fun. It's been really fun for the kids the past two years and it brings in a lot more money for the school (about 3 times more than the traditional fundraiser). They have different tiers of donations and if you donate the highest tier the school takes those kids to the local trampoline park. We didn't donate that amount last year and pretty much half the school left for the day. I promised the kids we would let them go this year since it's Wesley's last year in the elementary school. I decided to tag along since I've never been there.

It was a ton of fun! Trampolines everywhere, foam pits that you can jump into, obstacle courses and trapezes. We jumped and jumped and jumped and I could hardly move the next day. In all there were 150 kids there and it was memorable. I'm happy we went and I told Greta I'll go with her again next year.