We went to Jungle Playland a couple of weeks ago – we got a free pass for our whole family as a Christmas gift from good friends of ours. We had a great time! Jungle Playland is a big “play place” for kids – tubes and slides and the like. It recently moved to a bigger location, so it’s really cool now. It even has a miniature climbing wall. The real shocker is that they have decent food. Well, probably not all of their food, but they bake Papa Murphy’s pizza, so that was quite nice.

Most interesting was watching Rebecca. They had a nice area for toddlers, but she wanted to roam most of the time. The “big kid” stuff was a little intimidating for her, but she managed. Until she saw the giant monkey head, that is. It’s a large head that kids can crawl into from one of the tubes, and is high enough in the air that I can barely reach it. She saw it and instantly fell to the ground staring at it. I’m not sure if she was afraid she’d bump into it, or that it would fall on her, or eat her, or what. She wasn’t terrified, per se, but she was not anxious to walk under it. I eventually coaxed her to walk around it, and she was fine – until she saw the giant tiger head and responded similarly. I suppose fear is a natural reaction to the slavering fangs of a giant tiger; I should be proud of her instincts.