I'll have to fully review this new business after I actually jump there myself - but thought I'd tell what I know as my daughter works here. Gravity park - you can see it for the highway 25 - behind the CNM workforce training center. It's very close to Alameda and 25. Opening the week before Christmas and has had an amazing opening. 140,000 tickets have been sold in less than a month. NOT BAD.
They had 4 areas to use and your ticket buys you an hour. One area is for jumping in a huge area with tons of tramps side by side and some going up the walls. You can try to reach things above you, or jump from one tramp to another or practice you tricks. Another area is for dodge ball, which the games are 5 minutes in length. The foam pit has tramps below the foam and the launch pad is also a tramp. They have had many gymnastic group come for training in this area, but it's also just super fun to just jump in without doing something fancy, I am told.
They also have an area for little kids, where no big kids can come which is great!
You can book parties - details on their website: http://www.gravitypark.us/Home.aspx
Special events on weekend nights for teens and up. Disco lights come on and the place sells out. Sometimes even by Thursday so reservations are recommended. Infact good to make reservations all the time, so you don't run into a sold out place after getting the kids all excited...!!
Buy some socks - make the jump funner if you have a nice grip.
More once I've actually tried it, just had the full tour so far.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Snow and Ice
I'm sitting at the SunPort - ABQ airport for the uninformed... and getting ready to head back north where I'm really living even though my heart is here in New Mexico now. This week I got the Placitas house all moved in to come back and live here for brief stops and then hopefully full time when we can figure out how.
The city had a surprise snow storm this week. Wasn't even in the forecast. Infact after it had been snowing for three house - laid over 2 inches everywhere I tried to get a forecast of when it would stop and none of the major sites, weather.com or bing, or underground even had any chance of precipitation happening or going to happen. One said there was reports of snow nearby. Great - I could do better by looking outside.
I had the task of picking up my daughter at work in Albuquerque and headed out to do so and was stopped by a neighbor near the mailboxes and he said, "Turn around and go home, it's terrible out there. Avoid at all cost!" He told me that there was cars all over the road going sideways and doing stupid things and it wasn't worth getting out in it. I tried to call my daughter to see if there was other options... but she did not answer. Another car, similar to the one I was driving turned into the neighborhood and I waved her down and asked for a second opinion. She said it was going to be slow getting down the hill, but doable. So I headed out. A drive that usually takes about 5 minutes tops took 20 minutes. Driving no faster than 15 miles an hour, going past a couple cars that were being pushed out of spins, and seeing an ambulance head up the hill was a new look at living in the hills. Hopefully it's not always this bad.. but I don't know. What is usually a pretty deserted road was like a busy highway. Ten cars in front of me and ten behind... at least. The people going up the hilll were worse off, cause they were having to stop often and it was so slippery it was hard to get going again.
After I got to daughters work - 45 minutes instead of the usual 15, we decided to go shopping and do dinner instead of getting in the rush hour mix going up that hill. Good call, we had no problems or traffic at 7pm. The lingering effects of the day were visible with many cars abandoned on the side of the road going up the hill.
The next day - still cold but gorgeous and sunny again and that helped to clear much of the roads. Maybe my next car will be more of a 4 wheel drive.. Maybe.
The city had a surprise snow storm this week. Wasn't even in the forecast. Infact after it had been snowing for three house - laid over 2 inches everywhere I tried to get a forecast of when it would stop and none of the major sites, weather.com or bing, or underground even had any chance of precipitation happening or going to happen. One said there was reports of snow nearby. Great - I could do better by looking outside.
I had the task of picking up my daughter at work in Albuquerque and headed out to do so and was stopped by a neighbor near the mailboxes and he said, "Turn around and go home, it's terrible out there. Avoid at all cost!" He told me that there was cars all over the road going sideways and doing stupid things and it wasn't worth getting out in it. I tried to call my daughter to see if there was other options... but she did not answer. Another car, similar to the one I was driving turned into the neighborhood and I waved her down and asked for a second opinion. She said it was going to be slow getting down the hill, but doable. So I headed out. A drive that usually takes about 5 minutes tops took 20 minutes. Driving no faster than 15 miles an hour, going past a couple cars that were being pushed out of spins, and seeing an ambulance head up the hill was a new look at living in the hills. Hopefully it's not always this bad.. but I don't know. What is usually a pretty deserted road was like a busy highway. Ten cars in front of me and ten behind... at least. The people going up the hilll were worse off, cause they were having to stop often and it was so slippery it was hard to get going again.
After I got to daughters work - 45 minutes instead of the usual 15, we decided to go shopping and do dinner instead of getting in the rush hour mix going up that hill. Good call, we had no problems or traffic at 7pm. The lingering effects of the day were visible with many cars abandoned on the side of the road going up the hill.
The next day - still cold but gorgeous and sunny again and that helped to clear much of the roads. Maybe my next car will be more of a 4 wheel drive.. Maybe.
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