If I do say so myself, my daughter is very smart.
Her language skills, in particular, are very advanced and even though she’s just in preschool, she’s capable of handling second grade material. (It doesn’t hurt that her mother is a teacher and that my mother, father and I were similarly advanced as children.)
In any case, she recently took her assessment testing and scored perfect scores on both language and math skills, so we decided to take her our for something fun as a reward.
We’ve been having a miserable early heat wave these last couple of weeks and the temperatures are already into the 90’s so we decided to take her somewhere indoors. We took her and James to Makutu’s Island, an indoor playground filled with giant versions of the climbing and sliding playgrounds you see at MacDonald’s.
What makes this place great is that it’s OK for the parents to go on the equipment, too. Since they didn’t have these kinds of playgrounds when I was a kid, I’ve been looking to this for a long time! This is why I had kids, just so I could play on the cool toys.
Michelle got off to a slow start, getting up the ladders and then getting frightened. Some of the playground equipment area easily 30-40 feet in the air and it’s easy to understand why she could get frightened. Once other kids started playing with her, she was climbing to the very top over and over with wild abandon. She really enjoyed herself.
James, on the other hand, showed no hesitation whatsoever, unfortunately, he’s a little too small to be allowed on all the equipment. That didn’t stop him, though, and he climbs like a spider monkey. Irene had a full-time job trying to keep up with him!
Afterwards, we finally managed to get to Churchill’s for Sunday lunch of Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding. It’s was a little too fatty, but it’s better than their fish & chips. To my knowledge, there isn’t any other place in Arizona that has Yorkshire Pudding.