Delmarva. Three states in one county. A place full of rednecks, watermen, and chicken farmers. Many historic events have happened here, and is a very popular spot for museums and tour guides.
It is also one of the most boring places on earth for a teenager to live.
Maybe it's just me. But every time I actually have a little bit of free time and some spare cash, the most exciting thing that comes to mind is browsing at the mall and deciding where to eat at the food court.
That is, until God smiled down upon us and gave us....
AeroSports.
I'm a child at heart. I love macaroni and cheese with chicken nuggets, coloring books, bubbles, stuffed animals, and SpongeBob SquarePants. So when I got a very excited phone call one day from a fellow child in a teenager's body about the old Diamond Dreams being converted into an indoor trampoline park, I'm pretty sure I screamed.
I. Love. Trampolines.
This past weekend, I was tying balloons at the Civic Center with the youth group. During a slow period of time, Pastor Binkley sent Scott and I out into the main arena to talk with some of the exhibitioners and make balloons for them. Long story short, Scott and I ended up standing beside the AeroSports booth, laughing with the manager at Pastor Binkley's attempts to skateboard. We got talking, I made him a balloon hat, and he ended up giving us four tickets for one free hour of jumping that Tuesday.
Let's just say we were excited. (In case you haven't figured it out yet, Scott is my fellow trampoline-loving buddy.)
We immediately ran back to our friend Meghan, who was still stuck painting faces, and told her of our good fortune. She ended up getting a ticket for herself, so we called up Jourdan and my sister and made a date for 4:00 PM that Tuesday.
After hundreds of years waiting for school to let out on Tuesday, we all raced home to change into t-shirts and sports shorts (well, the stupid people did. The more intelligent Jourdan wore sweatpants) and all met up at four o'clock sharp in the AeroSports parking lot.
Walking inside was euphoric. After going through more legal technicalities, we got our wristbands and stepped onto the platform of the main jumping arena, taking everything in.
Then we started jumping. It was pure joy, slamming ourselves repeatedly into the bouncy sides and jumping ecstatically while looking like complete and total lunatics.
After jumping around for a while, we headed over into the corner to try the foam pit. It's basically a giant pit at the end of three lanes of trampolines, filled with hundreds of foam shapes. It was our favorite. We all had a blast, as clearly depicted below.
I know. Those were just so beautiful to look at.
The dodgeball arena was totally full of huge sweaty boys, none of us were tiny enough for the children's playplace, and none of us had any interest in the batting cages or video arcade. So our time was spent in between these two places. At the end of our hour and a half, everyone was sweating and sore and I had rugburns everywhere. The next day, none of us could lift our arms due to our extremely sore and weak shoulders (still can't tell you why).
I have never had so much fun in my life.
I will never be bored again. AeroSports gets a solid five-star rating from me.
I read on the website that they're going to be having trampoline volleyball soon. I almost died when I read that. You can expect to see me there on opening day with my friends.
Happy jumping!
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