xtreme bounce zone

today we went to xtreme bounce zone http://www.xtremebouncezone.net/daily_packages.php

For a half hour of bouncing. It was a WILD place. There are 5 moon bounce type areas with places to climb and slide inside the bounce zones and I think there must have been 60 kids under the age of 5 there. The twins seemed fearless and at their age are able to do all the climbing pretty competantly. There was a story hour first and when the "teacher" asked the kids to come and sit near her, Chloe ran to the front and got the closest peice of floor. Alex didn't cling to my leg at all but ran up to sit with Chloe. I found it hard to keep track of both of the kids at the same time and I saw other parents were having the same trouble. One little girl was crying "where's my Mommy?!" and no one, including the staff, bothered to help her. By the time I waded through the sea of humanity to get to her, her mother found her. Later I helped another little boy. I had walked the twins over to the ladder of the castle slide and then walked back to the other side to catch them at the bottom of the slide. AFter several minutes I could see the same head of brown hair almost at the top of the castle (he wasn't high enough for me to see his face over the slide) and no other kids getting by him. So I walked back around to the ladder slide, asked all the kids on the ladder behind him to climb down so I could climb up and help this poor sobbing kid figure out how to climb off the top of the ladder so he could get down the slide. I never did find out where his parent was. Overall it was a neat idea, and would probably be great when they rent it for smaller groups like birthday parties. Since it was only $3/kid I may be able to gird myself up to be able to face it again in a couple weeks.