Gracie is a heavy breather. Her favorite thing to do is get about an inch from my face in the middle of the night and just breathe on me. She’s like that crank caller that just breathes into the phone.
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My friend Chris’ birthday was about a week ago, and his wife threw him a surprise birthday party Friday night. She chose what is basically an indoor playground for the location. There are oversize bouncy houses, blow-up slides that are two-stories high, zip-line ropes and swings.
When I got the Evite, I e-mailed Lesley and said, “Really? This is weird, right? It’s Chris’ 40th birthday and we’re going to a freakin’ playground?” (THIS is the kind of good and supportive friend I am, folks!)
“Yup! His wife swears he’s going to love it.”
Okay, whatever. Not my birthday.
So for the three weeks leading up to this party, we were all sort questioning the logic of this. I mean, C’mon, we even had to sign waivers saying if we got hurt it was our responsibility, not theirs. Um, yeah, when you have a bunch of 40-year-olds swinging from playground equipment you can bet your ass someone is going to get hurt and that waiver won’t mean shit.
I spent most of Friday afternoon wondering how in the world I was going to get out of this.
But as the wise Lesley kept reminding me, we need to keep an open mind.
This was either going to really suck—or be the most fun thing we’ve ever done.
Well, let me tell you, we had so much damn fun! I feel like an asshole for complaining about this. Less than a minute after being in there, 20 adults were running, flying down the inflatable slides, swinging and hanging from ropes, climbing up things, playing Air Hockey (yes, I got my ass kicked) and ping-pong and pelted each other in The Most Dangerous Game of Dodge Ball EVER!
It was awesome. And like Lesley said after watching this video, we all looked to damn happy!
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My 40th birthday is later this month and I’m thinking about having it at a roller rink.
All Skate! All Skate!
(Chris, you better be prepared to lace up some skates!)
PS: Sorry about the video quality. I’m got to try and resave it. I think it saved down too small.
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